Alexander Franco, B.A., MS, Ph.D., is from the United States and has been a teacher for twenty-three years, having taught in the U.S., Mexico, Thailand, Iraq, and the Philippines. He grew up in New York City where he graduated from Columbia University with honors. Dr. Franco is a former Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and began a career as an external auditor working for the NYC office of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He later became an international auditor, conducting financial and operational audits on six continents in three languages. Dr. Franco’s research specialization is cross-cultural considerations in business and he has written over 80 publications including scholarly articles, books, book chapters, and book reviews, published in nine languages. Recent work in the area of humanoid robots was published in the ASEAN Journal of Management and Innovation, Thammasat University’s Thammasat Review (Scopus), and Chulalongkorn University’s Southeast Asian Journal of Economics (Scopus). Dr. Franco sits on over a dozen editorial and peer review boards for scholarly journals around the world. A world traveler, he has visited seventy-three countries and has taught or been a guest lecturer in seven.
| Type of Journal | Year of Publication | Title of Research | Name of Journal/Book | Reference |
| Peer reviewed Journal | 2025 | Pedagogical Considerations Regarding the Sensitivity Toward Corporate Social Responsibility Among Undergraduates in Cambodia | Journal of Curriculum and Teaching | https://doi.org/10.5430/jct.v14n2p41 |
| Peer reviewed Journal | 2025 | The cultural acceptability of insects as food: An empirical study in Cambodia | International Journal of Innovative Research and Scientific Studies | https://doi.org/10.53894/ijirss.v8i2.5954 |
| Peer reviewed Journal | 2025 | The Cultural Receptivity of Cambodians to Humanoid Robots in the Workplace and at Home: An Empirical Examination | South Eastern European Journal of Public Health | https://www.seejph.com/index.php/seejph/article/download/5770/3827/8815 |
| Peer reviewed Journal | 2023 | Demographic Factors Affecting Receptivity of Humanoid Robots in Thailand: An Empirical Study | Thammasat Review | https://doi.nrct.go.th/ListDoi/listDetail?Resolve_DOI=10.14456/tureview.2023.2 |
| Peer reviewed Journal | 2023 | Perceptions of Job Displacement by Humanoid Robots in Thailand: An Empirical Inquiry | Southeast Asian Journal of Economics | https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/saje/article/view/263576 |
| Peer reviewed Journal | 2017 | Factors That Determine Accounting Anxiety Among Users of English as a Second Language Within an International MBA Program | International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research* | https://www.ijlter.org/index.php/ijlter/article/view/845 |
| Other peer reviewed journal | 2023 | A Typology of the Receptivity of Humanoid Robots by Students in a Thai International University: Results of a Multivariate Cluster Analysis | ASEAN Journal of Management & Innovation | https://doi.nrct.go.th/ListDoi/listDetail?Resolve_DOI=10.14456/ajmi.2023.2 |
| Other peer reviewed journal | 2023 | Colorism As A Catalyst For The Skin Whitening Industry In Thailand | Malaysian Journal of Business and Economics MJBE | https://doi.org/10.51200/mjbe.v10i1.3823 |
| Other peer reviewed journal | 2022 | Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything | Journal of Research in Business Studies and Management | https://doi.org/10.22259/2394-5931.0902004 |
| Other peer reviewed journal | 2021 | Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Relations: Do Any Clear Distinctions Remain? An Examination of 50 Companies in Thailand | Journal of Research in Business Studies and Management | https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.ijrbsm.org/papers/v8-i2/2.pdf&embedded=true?iframe=true&width=700&height=450 |
| Other peer reviewed journal | 2021 | Super Disruptions And Supply Chain Crises: The Case Of Lumber In The United States During The Covid-19 Pandemic | Journal of Supply Chain Management: Research & Practice | https://jscm.au.edu/index.php/jscm/article/view/195 |
| Other peer reviewed journal | 2021 | Toward a Workable Definition of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Restitutive Approach | Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences |