Contact Information: Office: T.J. Majors Hall, room 237 Email: eibrayeva@peru.edu Office Telephone (402) 872-2203   Office Hours Mondays 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Tuesdays 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon Tuesdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Wednesdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Thursdays 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon Thursdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Spring 2012 Course Offerings:

BUS 335 000A Production/Operations Management (campus)

BUS 480 000A International Business (campus)

ECON 222 000A Principles of Macroeconomics (campus)

ECON 222 000B Principles of Macroeconomics (campus)

"Eyes on The World" DVD Lunches

Fall 2011 Course Offerings:

ECON 221 000A Principles of Microeconomics (campus)

ECON 221 000B Principles of Microeconomics (campus)

MGMT 660 049V Theories of Entrepreneuship (online-Term 1)

MGMT 660 049X Theories of Entrepreneuship (online-Term 1)

Bio:

Dr. Elina Ibrayeva is a Professor of Business and Economics at the School of Professional Studies, having joined Peru State College in the Fall of 2011.  She earned a PhD in Management from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 1999.  In her dissertation, she studied entrepreneurship in economies transitioning from communism to capitalism, concentrating on the role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and other individual characteristics in business creation.  She served as a contributor  to “Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies,” as edited by

Dr. Robert House and received a 2005 M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace given by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).

Before studying at the University of Nebraska, Dr. Ibrayeva was an associate professor at the Kazakh National State University in Almaty, Kazakhstan.  Having grown up in Kazakhstan, she was fascinated by US culture, democracy, and businesses – which motivated her interest in the differences between centrally planned and market economies.  She earned her first PhD degree in Political Economy from the Kazakh National State University in 1989.  In 1993, Dr. Ibrayeva studied in the Executive Entrepreneurship Program at the Maastricht School of Management in Netherlands. 

Dr. Ibrayeva was one of the first Kazakh scholars selected as a Fulbright Scholar and traveled to study in the United States in 1994.

In 2010, Dr. Ibrayeva married a Nebraska Cornhuskers fan, who inspired her to relocate from Minnesota to Nebraska.  She had been teaching graduate and undergraduate classes at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota, for twelve years, having developed an international management concentration for the management program at SMSU.  Intrigued by the potential of internet to supplement and improve student experience, she has taught online classes for over a decade.  Some of courses she taught included ECON 470 International Business and Economics, MNGT 440 International Management, MKTG 471 International Marketing, and MBA 603 Organizational and Managerial Behavior.  Dr. Ibrayeva also enjoyed volunteering as an instructor for Senior College at SMSU, a non-credit educational program for seniors in Southwest Minnesota.

As an instructor, Dr. Ibrayeva emphasizes interconnections between multiple disciplines (business, economics, history, cultural studies) and connects theory and current business events.  In her online classes, she seeks to build a learning community where students learn not only from the textbook and teacher, but also from each other. 

Dr. Ibrayeva loves visiting arts and history museums  and has visited a museum in almost every city she’s  traveled to, including Philadelphia, Boston, Washington D. C., Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis, Denver, Toronto, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, Brussels, Amsterdam, Kuala Lumpur, and Osaka.

Education:

Ph.D, Management, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1999

Fulbright Research Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1994

Executive Entrepreneurship Program, The Maastricht School of Management, Netherlands, 1993

Ph.D in Political Economy, The Kazakh National State University, Kazakhstan, 1989

Economist & Instructor of Political Economy Bachelor Degree, The Kazakh National State University, Kazakhstan, 1983

Presentations and Publications:

Ibrayeva, E. (2010, October). Rising Stars: BRIC Countries as Emerging Economic Superpowers. Presentation at Southwest Minnesota State University New Work Faculty Forum.

Ibrayeva, E. (2010, March). Panelist at the teleconference between SMSU and the Center for North-American Studies at the Bratislava University of Economics in Slovakia.

Ibrayeva, E. (2009, August). Course Design for Online Courses. Presentation at the Southwest Minnesota State University Professional Development Day.

Ibrayeva, E. (2009, August). Anatomy of the Global Economic Crisis. Presentation at Danebod Folk Festival, Tyler, MN.

Ibrayeva, E. (2009, April). Social Corporate Responsibility. Presentation at Southwest Minnesota State University  New Work Faculty Forum.

Ibrayeva, E. & Thompson, R. (2008, April). A Mindful Foundation for Effective Teaching. Presentation at the Southwest Minnesota State University New Work Faculty Forum.

Ibrayeva, E. & Thompson, R. (2008, February). Teaching with Mindfulness to Develop Student and Faculty Potential. Presentation at at "Realizing Student potential/I Teach: The First-Year Student in the 21st Century" at Minneapolis Community and Technical College.

Luthans, F. & Ibrayeva, E. (2006).  Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy in Central Asian Transition Economies: Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses. Journal of International Business Studies, 37, 92-100.

Ibrayeva, E. (2006).  Entrepreneurial behaviors in Central Asian transition economies.  Proceedings of the 6th international business conference organized by the University of Economics, University of Economics in Bratislava and University of Economics, Prague, Slovakia (pp. 93-98).

Ibrayeva, E. (2005).  Cultural dimensions for selected countries in the East European cluster.  Proceedings of the 5th international business conference "New Business Environment of the Slovak and the Czech Republics following their EU accession,” University of Economics in Bratislava and University of Economics, Prague, Slovakia (pp. 43-47).

Ibrayeva, E. (2003, April). Political, legal, social, and cultural barriers to FDI in Central Asia. Presentation at the Conference on Corporate Governance and Investment in Transitioning Economies at the Northeastern University in Boston, MA.

Ibrayeva, E., Luthans, F., & Stajkovic, A. (2000). The impact of environmental and personal variables on entrepreneurship in transitionary economies: An empirical analysis. Presentation at the 2000 National Academy of Management in Toronto, Canada.

Ibrayeva, E. (2000). International implications of social cognitive theory. Presentation at the “Social Cognitive Aproach to Organizational Behavior" symposium at the 2000 National Decision Science Institute in Orlando, Florida.

Luthans, F., Stajkovic, & Ibrayeva, E. (2000).  Environmental and psychological challenges facing entrepreneurial development in transitional economies. Journal of World Business, 35 (1), 95-110.

Luthans, F., Peterson, S., & Ibrayeva, E. (1998).  The potential for the "dark side" of leadership in post-communist countries. Journal of World Business, 33 (2), 185-201.

Ibrayeva, E., Luthans, F., & Stajkovic, A. (1999). Environmental challenges facing entrepreneurial development in transformational economies: The case of Central Asia. Presentation at the 1999 National Decision Institute in New Orleans.

Ibrayeva, E. & Luthans, F. (1998). Activities of entrepreneur-managers in the former Soviet Union Central Asian republics: an observational study.  Proceedings of the Midwest Academy of Management in Kansas City.

Ibrayeva, E. (1993, May). Presentation at the First Annual Conference of CEEMAN (Central and East European Management Development Association) in Lyublyana, Slovenia.

Teaching, Research, and Advising Awards:

The 2005 M.Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace Conferred by

The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) for a role as Major Collaborator for The Culture, Leadership & Organizations: The Globe Study of 62 Societies published by Sage in 2004 and edited by R. House, et al.

Southwest Minnesota State University "Advisor of the Year" award shared with Professor Susan Jones for advising SMSU Malaysian Student Council, 1999-2000.

Southwest Minnesota State University Honor Roll faculty award for excellence in teaching four years in a row, 1999-2002.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Entrepreneurship Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Business Teaching Methodology Program in Central Asia, 1996.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Entrepreneurship Award for Outstanding Contribution to Central Asian Students in Free Enterprise, 1995 -1997.

Second Place Diploma for a paper on methods of improving productivity in an Ekibaztuz coal mine in Kazakhstan, USSR Undergraduate Student Research Competition in Social Sciences, 1982.

Conferences and Workshops Attended:

National Academy of Management conference in Philadelphia, PA, 2007

National Academy of Management conference in Denver, CO, 2005

Talking about Teaching and Significant Learning Experiences, Conference, lead by

Dee Fink and organized by Minnesota State University, Mankato, 2005.

Faculty Development in International Business, International Marketing Workshop, University of South Carolina, Colombia, Moore School of Business, 2004.

Active Learning: Energizing the Classroom, Seminar, MnSCU Center for Teaching and Learning, Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, MN,February 8, 2003.

Redesign your course to create a significant learning experience, Workshop, Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, MN, October & December, 2003.

Engaging Students through Technology, Seminar, MnSCU Center for Teaching and Learning, White Bear Lake, MN, 2002

Participant, First Global Management Forum, Spain, Barcelona, 1993.

Participant in a series of International Business Education Conferences: Moscow, 1992, St.Petersburg, 1993, Nejni Novgorod (Russia), 1993.