Faculty Profile: P. Roberto Garcia |
Back to Faculty Profiles |
P. Roberto Garcia is Clinical Associate Professor of International Business in the department of Management at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. His administrative responsibilities include serving as Director of the Supply Chain and Global Management Academy (MBA program) and as faculty advisor for the International Business Society (MBA Program). From 1999 to 2000 he was Executive Vice President of Resource Development at United Way of Greater Toledo. Between 1994 and 1999, he was Assistant Professor of International Business at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business. In addition to teaching various International Business courses at the undergraduate and MBA levels, he is an active instructor in Kelley Executive Partners' executive education program.
Garcia holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in International Business with a functional area minor in Organizational Behavior and an MBA from the University of Toledo. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in Psychology. In addition to teaching and research in the area of international business, Garcia has worked as a consultant for Edwards Brothers Printing, Philips, AT&T, ALCOA, U.S. Department of Justice, Unext.com, and has done executive training for Chrysler Corporation and General Motors. From 1990 to 1994 he was a regular presenter in the General Motors-UAW Paid Educational Leave Program (PEL) administered by the University of Michigan.
Dr. Garcia's previous research is strongly focused on Organizational Effectiveness in a variety of industries and settings. His international research is focused on Foreign Direct Investment and the management and organizational effectiveness of Multinational Corporations. His research is field-based and oriented toward improving organizational practice in emerging economies and international restructuring in the NAFTA environment. He is interested in the effective organizational learning that can improve a firm's overall competitiveness. He has written and published on such topics as: Organizational Learning and Competitiveness in Mexico's Automotive Industry, the diffusion of "lean production" at Ford, Nissan, and Volkswagen in Mexico, International Labor Migration, and Human Capital Investment and Competitive Advantage. He is also interested in computer-assisted teaching methods that incorporate the World Wide Web, digitized video clips, e-mail, and other internet sources to enhance his students' learning.
