Dr. John Mahon
John F. Mahon is the Founding Director of the School of Policy and International Affairs, the first John M. Murphy Chair of International Business Policy, and Strategy/Professor of Management at the Maine Business School, University of Maine. He has recently assumed the duties of Dean, College of Business, Public Policy and Health after serving as Provost, ad interim (2004 – 2006). In November 2007, he was appointed by Governor John Baldacci as chair of Maine’s International Relations Planning Committee. The Committee is charged with helping position Maine and Maine businesses in the global economy.
Before UM, Professor Mahon was Professor of Strategy and Policy/Chair of the Strategy and Policy Department at the School of Management at Boston University. He received his D.B.A from Boston University, his M.B.A. from Bryant College (with honors), and his B. S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored /co-authored over 125 articles, monographs and book chapters, two books and over 85 cases in strategy, general management, and public policy/public affairs.
Professor Mahon was awarded the Issue Management Council’s (a national professional organization based in Washington, DC) Intellectual Leadership Award, the first ever given to an academic for the impact his research and executive education has had on the discipline and practice of issues management. He has won numerous awards—for teaching, for research and for service at the local and national level.
Professor Mahon has taught in a variety of executive education programs in Universities, and as an executive educator and/or consultant for a variety of For-tune 500 firms, for example: Adventis, All China Federation of Industry and Commerce (Beijing, China), Bath Iron Works, BellSouth Corporation, BHP (Aus-tralia), Cardinal Health, Ciba-Geigy, Daewoo (Korea), Digital Equipment Corp., Honeywell International, Jones and Laughlin Steel, Motorola Corporation, New England Telephone, NYNEX, Otsuka Pharmaceuticals (Japan), Pillsbury Corpora-tion, Sanyo Corporation (Japan), Southwestern Bell, Telstra (Australia), and the Travelers. In addition, he has served in the same capacity to organizations in the public sector, trade associations, and to government agencies at the local, state/federal level.
Professor Mahon was, Editor, Business and Society (2004-2007) and serves on the editorial boards of Alliance, Case Research Journal, and the International Journal of Public Affairs. He is also the first academic to hold an officer position (Vice President, 2003-2007) in the Issue Management Council. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Public Affairs Foundation in Washington, DC, the Board of Directors of the Issue Management Council and is a research fellow at the Centre for Public Affairs in Australia and with the European Centre for Public Affairs in England.
Professor Mahon is married to Julie (Weiss) and has one daughter, Elizabeth who resides in Quincy, MA. He and his wife and assorted pets currently reside in Hampden, Maine.
Dr. John Mahon
John F. Mahon is the Founding Director of the School of Policy and International Affairs, the first John M. Murphy Chair of International Business Policy, and Strategy/Professor of Management at the Maine Business School, University of Maine. He has recently assumed the duties of Dean, College of Business, Public Policy and Health after serving as Provost, ad interim (2004 – 2006). In November 2007, he was appointed by Governor John Baldacci as chair of Maine’s International Relations Planning Committee. The Committee is charged with helping position Maine and Maine businesses in the global economy.
Publications & Presentations
Publications:
"Corporate Reputation, Crises, and Stakeholder Management," with Richard A. McGowan, Global Focus, September, 1999: 37 – 52.
“Social Networks and Nonmarket Strategy,” 2004. With Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens and Kai Lamertz, in the International Journal of Public Affairs, 4, (2): 170 - 189.
“An Approach for Evaluating the Privatization Process: An Analysis of the Oil Industry Privatization in Argentina,” 2006. With Richard A. McGowan, Annuals of the University of Craiova, 34, (1): 205 – 218. Translated into Romanian and published as “O Abordare A Evaluàrii Procesulue De Privatizare: Analizà AprivatizàrII Industriei Petroliere Din Argentina,” Seria: Stiinte Economice, Analele Universitàtii Din Craiova, 34, (1): 59 – 72.
Presentations:
“To Privatize or Nationalize: Argentina’s Experience with Both,” with Richard A. McGowan, paper pre-sented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Strategic Management Society, San Diego, CA, October, 2007.
“Immigration and Outsourcing: Enlarging Fault Lines and After Shocks of Globalization,” paper presented at Globalization in the 21st Century: How Interconnected Are We?” co-sponsored by the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research and the School of Policy and International Affairs, University of Maine, Abu Dhabi, April, 2007.
“Issues and Issues Management,” invited presentation at the Issues Management Best Practices Conference, Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, Zurich, Switzerland, November, 2006.
“Issues Management: International Challenges,” invited presentation at the Public Affairs in Asia Professional Development Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, September, 2006.
“Case Study: GM in China,” invited presentation at the Public Affairs in Asia Professional Development Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, September, 2006.
“Case Study: CSFB’s China Unicom Incident,” invited presentation at the Public Affairs in Asia Professional Development Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, September, 2006.
“Case Study: Crisis Communications: The Asian Bird Flu,” invited presentation at the Public Affairs in Asia Professional Development Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, September, 2006.
“Roundtable Workshop for Senior Practitioners in Corporations and Government Enterprises in
Asia,” in-vited participant, The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong, 21 September 2006.
“Leadership, Public Policy and Non-Governmental Organizations,” Keynote Address, Natural
Resources Conference, Bangor, Maine, August, 2006.
“Confronting Leadership: Theory versus Practice,” Invited Address at Multi-Sector Forum on
Ethical Leadership, Randall L. Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence, Indiana University,
April, 2006.
“Examining Corporate Activities in Political Arenas,” with Jennifer Griffin, invited presentation at the Research Colloquium on Corporate Political Activities in an Internationalizing Economy, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February, 2006.
“Reevaluating the Privatization Process: An Analysis of the Privatization of Argentina’s Oil
Industry,” with Richard A. McGowan, paper presented at the Seventh Academy of Business
Disciplines Annual Conference, Ft. Myers FL, November, 2005. Winner of the McGraw-Hill/Irwin Best Paper Award.
“Globalization and Economic Impacts,” invited presentation for Primary Source, Bangor, Maine, November 2, 2005.
“Stakeholder Theory: What have we gained, what have we lost?” Paper presented as part of the Symposium “Stakeholder Theorizing: Taking Stock and Moving Ahead—Confronting US and European Perspectives on Stakeholder Theorizing and Management Practices” at the ADERSE Conference, Lyon, France, October 2005. Other presenters included Professor Aurelien Acquier, Ecole des Mines des Paris, Professor Franck Aggeri, Ecole des Mines des Paris, Professor Jean-Pascal Gond, University of Nottingham and University of Toulouse, Professor Michael Johnson-Cramer, Bucknell University, and Professor Samuel Mercier, Universite Bretagne Sud.
“Cascading Arenas: A Multilevel Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on the Issue of Genetically Modification Organisms.” Chair and submitter of this Joint Symposium to Social Issues In Management Division and the International Management Divisions of the Academy of Management for presentation at the Annual Meetings, August, 2005, Honolulu, HI. Other presenters include Professor Jennifer J. Griffin, GWU, Pursey Heugens, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Stephanie Welcomer, University of Maine, and Richard A. McGowan, Boston College.
“Cascading Arenas in Issues and Stakeholder Management: Toward a New Framework for Issue Analysis and Resolution,” paper presented as part of the Joint Symposium “Cascading Arenas: A Multilevel Multi- Stakeholder Perspective on the Issue of Genetically Modification Organisms.” (Social Issues In Management Division and the International Management Division) of the Academy of Management, Honolulu, HI
August, 2005.
“Cascading Arenas and Genetic Modification: The U.S. Case,” with Stephanie Welcomer, paper presented as part of the Joint Symposium “Cascading Arenas: A Multilevel Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on the Issue of Genetically Modification Organisms.” (Social Issues In Management Division and the International Management Division) of the Academy of Management, Honolulu, HI, August, 2005.
“Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies and Practice,” paper presented as part of the Symposium “The Role of Governance in Corporate Social Responsibility,” at the National Meetings of the Academy of Management, Honolulu, HI, August, 2005. Other presenters include Ann Kinkade, U. of WS, Ramon Aldag, U. of WS, Bryan Husted, Instituto de Empresa, Mexico, Jeanne Logsdon, U, of NM, Donna Wood, U. of Northern Iowa,
“Conducting Research On International and Comparative Corporate Governance,” Invited panelist on this Professional Development Workshop with Ruth Aguilera (U. of IL), Brian Boyd (AZ State Univ.), Igor Filatotchev (King’s College, London), Joshua Margolis (HBS), David Palmer (UC-Davis), Steen Thomsen (Copenhagen Business School) and Parthiban David (Notre Dame), at the National Meetings of the Academy of Management, Honolulu, HI, August, 2005.
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