PAUL HERBIG is a Visiting Professor in the Management and Marketing Department at the Graduate School of International Trade and Business Administration of Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas. Prior to entering academia, he worked in marketing management at AT&T, Honeywell, and Texas Instruments. His research interests include reputation and market signaling, industrial trade shows, futuristics, cross-cultural influences on innovation, and Japanese marketing practices. He is the author of The Innovation Matrix (Quorum, 1994).