Analyzing International Business Operations in the Post-Pandemic Era

Bryan Christiansen is the Executive Director and Founder of Colorado-based The Christiansen Foundation that provides training for economically and socially disadvantaged adults to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Christiansen has published 36 Reference books for university libraries that are mostly Scopus- and/or Web of Science-indexed. A former business professor in Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey, and the USA, he is fluent in Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish with extensive exposure to Russian and Turkish. He is currently working with professors in the United Kingdom and Russia to develop new social sciences models based on his published cultural indoctrination theoretical framework. John D. Branch currently teaches a variety of marketing and international business courses at the undergraduate, MBA, and executive levels at the Stephen M Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan (USA), and serves as Co-Director of the Yaffe Digital Media Initiative. Previously, he was Academic Director of the School’s weekend and evening MBA programmes; earlier, he was also Director of Educational Outreach at the University’s William Davidson Institute. John also holds an appointment at the University’s Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies, and maintains a Research Fellowship at the William Davidson Institute. John is originally from Canada. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Science in electronics from the University of Western Ontario (Canada), a Master of Business Administration from the University of New Brunswick (Canada), a Master of Arts in education from Washington University in Saint Louis (USA), a Doctor of Philosophy in marketing from the University of Cambridge (England), a Doctor of Education from the University of Michigan (USA), and a Doctor of Professional Studies from Middlesex University (England).