About the Foundation

History

In the early 1990s, late Professor Robert J. House from Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania, who was a visiting professor at Gustavson School of Business at the time, conceived the idea of a large-scale international study of cultural, leadership and organizational practices. His host Gustavson’s Dr. Ali Dastmalchian, together with his colleague Dr. Mansour Javidan were the first to begin the data collection in the Middle East. Since then, the Global Leadership & Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) project has expanded to more than 200 researchers from 62 countries and has become one of the largest, most prestigious and most comprehensive studies of its kind in the social sciences.

In January 2015, the GLOBE project moved to the Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria when Dr. Ali Dastmalchian was elected by GLOBE members to be president and chair of the Board of Directors for the GLOBE Foundation for Research & Education. As president, Dr. Dastmalchian follows GLOBE’s founder and first president, the late Professor House; Professor Mansour Javidan from Thunderbird School of Global Management; and Professor Peter W. Dorfman from New Mexico State University.

The GLOBE project has become a leader with award-winning books, more than 400 academic and practice-oriented journal articles, a massive database, and GLOBE has been adopted by university scholars, diplomats and consulting agencies around the world.

Governance

Board of Directors (2021 - Present)

• Mary Sully de Luque, Acting President of GLOBE and Chair of the Board, Professor of Management, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University, AZ, USA
• Neal M. Ashkanasy, Professor of Management, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
• Peter W. Dorfman, (Past President of GLOBE and Chair of the Board) Professor Emeritus, New Mexico State University, NM, USA
• Ute Stephan, Professor, King’s College London, King’s Business School, Strategy, International Management and Entrepreneurship (SIME) Group
• Felix C. Brodbeck, Chair of Economic and Organizational Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) Muenchen, Munich, Germany
• Michael Frese, Professor for Management and Organization, Asia School of Business, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Leuphana, University of Lueneburg, Germany (on leave from NUS Business School as Provost Chair Professor)

Past Presidents

• 2010 - 2014 Peter W. Dorfman Peter W. Dorfman, Professor Emeritus, New Mexico State University, NM, USA
• 2004 - 2009 Mansour Javidan Ph.D, Garvin Distinguished Professor and Director, Najafi Global Mindset Institute, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University, AZ, USA.
• 1993 - 2003 Robert J. House, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA.

Past Board of Directors (2009 - 2014)

• Ali Dastmalchian, Professor of Organization Studies and IB, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, B.C., Canada
• Jagdeep S. Chhokar, Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad, India
• Peter W. Dorfman, President of GLOBE and Chair of the Board, Professor Emeritus, New Mexico State University, NM, USA
• Miriam Erez, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• Ping Ping Fu, Associate Professor of Management, CUHK Business School, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Mary Sully de Luque, Associate Professor of Management, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University, AZ, USA