Samir Youssef

Professor
Department of Management
The American University in Cairo
Egypt

Biography

Samir M. Youssef is Professor of Management and International Business at the Department of Management, American University in Cairo. He teaches in the fields of International Business ,organization and business ethics. His research interests lie in the fields of international business ,development business-government relationships ,business strategy and social responsibility Youssef holds a ph.D in international Business from the University of Iowa,1971 and a Masters in Industrial Organization from the University of Oregon in 1967.He has been at the American University in Cairo since 1980. He served as chair of the Management Department(1994-1998) and Director of M.B.A. Program (1982-1986) Prior to that he taught at Western Illinois University (1971-1975) and served as a consultant with Arab Consultants(1979-1980) where he worked on several projects in Arab Countries. He also designed training manuals for junior consultants. He was a visiting scholar at Indiana University in1993 and at Bentley College in 1995.He worked as a consultant for several international organizations including the European Mediterranean Program, Dutch Development Office ,DANIDA,UNDP and USAID where he participated in several studies related to development Youssef designed ,supervised and participated in various training programs offered by the Middle East Management Center training program for several companies including Mobil Oil ,commercial international bank ,Misr company for Chemicals ,Swiss Farma and Santa Fe international

Research Intrest

Accounting. Marketing

List of Publications
Samir M. Youssef and Pascale Nader , Corporate and Community-Based Approaches to Social Entrepreneurship to Solving the Myriad Problem of Housing for the Poor, International Journal of Strategic Management ,Accepted for Publication in the forthcoming issue ,March 2014
Incorporating Informal Business Activities Into The Formal Economy :A Case Study from Egypt, Journal of Academy of Business and Economics,Vol.15,No.3,2015
The Egyptian Bureaucracy and Foreign investors, Journal of Academy of Business and Economics,Vol.16,No.2,2016

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