American Shale Energy and the Global Economy / SpringerBriefs in Business (PDF)

Andrew R. Thomas, PhD is Associate Professor of Marketing and International Business at the University of Akron; and, the bestselling author/editor of 21 business books. He also serves as a member of the Core Faculty at the International School of Management in Paris, France.


His most recent works include Ethics and Neuromarketing (Springer 2016) The Customer Trap: How to Avoid the Biggest Mistake in Business (Apress, 2015) and Global Supply Chain Security (Springer, 2015).







His book The Distribution Trap: Keeping Your Innovations from Becoming Commodities was awarded the Berry-American Marketing Association Prize for the Best Marketing Book of 2010. Direct Marketing in Action was a finalist for the same award in 2008.







Andrew is founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Transportation Security, contributing editor at Industry Week, and a regularly featured analyst for media outlets around the world such as BBC, CNBC, Fox News, CNN, and ABC.







Andrew is a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences' Transportation Research Board Global Supply Chain Security Subcommittee.







For the past number of years, he has worked closely with MAGNET (Manufacturing Growth Network) - the MEP for Northeast Ohio- to conduct market research studies for firms looking to discover and access new markets within the context of America's shale energy revolution.





Before becoming a professor and author, Andrew was a principal in the first company in history to manufacture motorcycles in China and sell them for export: having traveled to and developed distribution channels in 120 countries on all seven continents.