Robert March

Robert M. March (2 May 1927 – 20 November 2010) was an Australian professor who taught in China, Australia and Japan and wrote extensively regarding East Asian business practices.[1]

From 1980 to 2010 he was the President of the International Management Development Centre, Australia, Japan, China. He was a Guest Professor of International Business at the School of Business Nanjing University from 2006 to 2008. He was an Adjunct Professor of International Business at the University of New England from 2000 to 2004. He was a Professor of International Business at the University of Western Sydney, Nepean from 1994 to 1998. He was a Professor of International Business at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo from 1981 to 1988. He was a Visiting Professor of International Marketing and Negotiation at IIST, Japan from 1973 to 1981.[2] He wrote more than six books before retiring on the New South Wales Central Coast in early 2010. He was working with the assistance of his fifth wife, Gao Yuan Qing, on two studies of Chinese culture: The Playfulness of the Chinese People and Human Relationships in China when he died. He died at 1:45 p.m. at the age of 83. He had recently completed three new manuscripts on Chinese and Japanese international business negotiations. They have not been published.[1]

He had four sons and five grandchildren.