Prior to his arrival at MSU, Hamish spent two decades actively engaged in the establishment and transformation of international food value chains, both on the commercial business and academic research, teaching and outreach sides, in Central and Eastern Europe, Southern Asia, Latin America and Northern Africa. During the 1990’s, he managed and conducted various value chain development, research and educations projects in Europe supporting the transformations of the Central European and FSU agir-food system. More recently as an Assistant Professor in International Agribusiness and Marketing Strategy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he founded the International Business Immersion Program (www.ibip.uiuc.edu) and established international research, teaching and outreach programs on linking entrepreneurial farmers and SME’s to local, regional and international markets (www.globalfoodchainpartnerships.org). He also holds a senior research associate position at LICOS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in International Agribusiness and Rural Finance and is actively involved in the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association as a member of the board of directors and Vice-Chairman of the Economic and Social Development Task Force. He is currently leading various capacity development initiatives related the facilitation and establishment of international value chains and market linkages in emerging and developing countries.
Professional Interests
- international change in the global food system
- design, regulation, governance of agri-food value chains
- international market entry strategies
- entrepreneurship and innovation
- financial mechanism design and innovation
- value chain and market linkage facilitation in emerging and developing countries
Selected Publications
Gow, H. R. and J. F. M. Swinnen, 1998, “Up- and Downstream Restructuring, Foreign Direct Investment, and Hold-Up Problems in Agricultural Transition,” European Review of Agricultural Economics, 25(3): 331-350.
Swinnen, J.F.M., and H.R. Gow, 1999, “Agricultural Credit Problems and Policies during the Transition to a Market Economy in Central and Eastern Europe,” Food Policy, 24:21-47.
Gow, H. R., D. Streeter, and J. F. M. Swinnen, 2000, “How Private Contract Enforcement Mechanisms can succeed where Public Institutions Fail: The Case of Juhocukor a.s.” Agricultural Economics 23:253-265.
Gow, H. R., L. D. Oliver, and N. G. Gow, 2002, “Cooperating to Compete in High Velocity Global Markets: The Strategic Role of Flexible Supply Chain Architectures,” Journal of Chain and Network Science, vol. 2, no. 1, pp19-32.
Goldsmith, P., and H. R. Gow, 2005, “Strategic Positioning under Agricultural Structural Change: A Critique of Long Jump Co-operative Ventures,” International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 8 (2)
Gow, H.R., A. Shanoyan, L. Abrahamyan, and M. Alesksandryan, 2006, Agricultural Production Credit Clubs: Priming the Rural Financial Markets in Armenia,” Agricultural Finance Review, 66(2): 315-329.
Cungu, A., H.R. Gow, J.F.M. Swinnen and L. Vranken, 2008, Investment with weak contract enforcement: evidence from Hungary during transition, European Review of Agricultural Economics (in print).
Funded Research Projects
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