The leading association of International Business scholars in the UK and Ireland.

News and Updates

Conference 

The 2023 AIB UKI conference will be hosted by the University of Glasgow. Please click here for the conference pages.

University of Glasgow Quadrangle

Our 2022 AIB UKI conference was organised jointly with the 8th Reading IB conference at the Henley Business School, University of Reading. This was the first in-person AIB UKI conference after 2019. The conference was a huge success with 160+ attendees. The awards given away at the conference are listed here. A big thanks to conference chairs Professors Davide Castellani and Rajneesh Narula, as well as to the conference team (right picture) for making this a success. Click here for the 2022 picture gallery.

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2022 AIB-UKI Book

The latest (2022) version of the AIB UKI book series is now out. Titled "Megatrends in International Business" and edited by Spiros Batas, Olli Kuivalainen and Rudolf R. Sinkovics, the book emphasizes on how the main trends in international business can shape and help propel the field forward.

Covering a variety of  topics, from artificial intelligence to the belt and road initiative, the book enhances our understanding of how and why technology, funding, policies, managerial decisions, cultural differences, and changes in subsidiaries can affect businesses that operate in foreign markets. 

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Pavlos Dimitratos Remembrance Book

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Executive Board updates

Dr Noemi Sinkovics has been appointed as our new Secretary and Dr Spiros Batas as our new Treasurer. A big thank you to Professors Mario Kafouros and Xiaohui Liu for serving as the Secretary and Treasurer respectively for a number of years. To view our Executive board members, please click here.

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Stephen Young

AIB-UKI History

We have recently published the history of the AIB UKI chapter on the website. The material for this History was gathered by Stephen Young, his untimely death however prevented him from completing the work.

This history is dedicated to the memory of Stephen Young. Work to complete the History was undertaken by Frank McDonald, Heinz Josef Tüselmann and Pavlos Dimitratos. Invaluable information to enable the work to be completed was provided by Peter Buckley.

​Elena Karali, Asma Mitchla and Ida Rauto Dessai of the Department of International Business, Leeds University Business School, provided instrumental help in preparing this document. Thanks to Sarah Blake for help with preparing the document.

The AIB UKI history can also be downloaded from here.

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