Dr Lou Anne Barclay is Senior Lecturer of International Business at the Mona School of Business and Management, The University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Her work has appeared in journals as diverse as Oxford Development Studies, European Journal of Development Studies, African Development Review and Social and Economic Studies. Lou Anne won The Principal's Research Award for The Most Outstanding Researcher in the Faculty of Social Sciences in 2006. This award, however, is not the first public recognition of her research abilities. Her work has been described 'setting new standards for research work on economics of developing nations' by the esteemed Professor Alan Rugman in his 2006 article entitled, 'Multinational enterprise strategy for developing countries'. She has participated in conferences at the Harvard Business School, United Nations Centre for Trade and Development and other leading institutes. Her research interests are related to firm, industry and country competitiveness in developing economies.