Academic History

• PhD York University, Canada, 2003
• Attorney-at-Law Sri Lanka, 1976
• LLB University of Ceylon, Colombo, 1974

Expertise

• Business Policy and Strategy

Awards

• Awarded trophy for best orator and critic of the Rotarian's "Four Way Test as a Way of Life" Rotary Contest. Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1969. Paper published in the Rotary International Journal, 1969-1970.

Selected Publications

• Chung, Ed, and Stephen Alagaratnam (2001), “Teach Ten Thousand Stars How Not to Dance: A Survey of Alternative Ontologies in Marketing Research," Qualitative
  Market Research: An International Journal, Vol. 4 (4), 223-34.
• Stephen Alagaratnam (2000), Configuration and Coordination in Transnational Corporations: some paradigms and extant theory comparisons, Journal of Global Business.

Work in Progress

• War and Strategy.
• Reconfiguration by Transnational Corporations to Mitigate Economic Sanctions.

Conference Papers

• The Impact of Outside Directors on the Financial performance of large American Banks before the abolition of the Glass Steagall Act, Mid West Decision Sciences Institute, 2007, Chicago.

• Executive Inner Circle Impact on the financial performance of large American Banks, Strategic Management Society, Oct. 2006, Austria.

• The impact of Outside Directors on the Financial Performance of Large American Banks, Strategic Management Society, Oct. 2004, Puerto Rico.

• Knowledge management through information processing technology, World Congress on Intellectual Capital, Jan. 2002, Toronto.

• Of Summer Insects and Ice: Alternative Ontologies in Marketing and Corporate Structures for international business and the Modular Corporation, American Society for Business and Behavioral Sciences, 1999, Las Vegas.

• A model of resource leverage, Institute of  International Business and Applied Management, Oct. 1998, Orlando.

• The infoway: Dividing society further? and The dominant models of strategic management: Do they reflect current reality? International Business and Economics Conference, Oct. 1998, Wisconsin.

• The Information Highway: Giving access to the have nots, International Institute of Business Administration and Technology, July 1998, Toronto.

• Biblical  and Taoist challenges to positivism in Ethics, International Institute of Business Administration and Technology, July 1998, Toronto.

• Strategy Traps in the North American Plastics Industries, International Bus. Admin. Association, 1998, Chicago.

• The 4Ps of Transnational Exploitation, Govt. & Bus. Admin. Association, 1998, Chicago.

• The Genesis of the market creator and the exodus of the market server, Business and International Marketing Association, 1998, Atlanta.

• The 8Ps of Transnational marketing, International Marketing Association, 1997, Romania.

• The infobahn: trickle down social effects for infrastructure? Centre for technology, Information and Marketing, 1997, Brussels.

• The Network Paradigm, Global Business Association, 1997, Washington D.C.

• Has the ESP Paradigm lost its appeal?: Some emergent Paradigms in Global Business, Global Business Association, 1996.

Committees

• Co-President of Delta Sigma Epsilon Honor Society for Academic Excellence, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA.

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