The leading association of International Business scholars in the UK and Ireland.
News and Updates
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AIB-UKI BookThe 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. |
Conference
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Our 2022 AIB UKI conference has recently concluded. It 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 picture gallery.
The 2023 AIB UKI conference will be hosted by the University of Glasgow - Adam Smith Business School. Please watch this space for further details about the 2023 conference. |
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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.
Stephen Young
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AIB-UKI HistoryWe 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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2021 JIBS Decade AwardCongratulations to Catherine Welch, Rebecca Piekkari, Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, and Eriikka Paavilainen-Mantymaki for receiving the JIBS Decade Award! The paper entitled “Theorising from case studies: Towards a pluralist future for international business research”investigates methods of theorising from case studies. The focus is on understanding how case researchers theorise and how this can be translated for IB research. Based on a content analysis of case studies from three top journals, the authors construct a typology of theorising from case studies and distinguish four methods of theorising – inductive theory-building, interpretive sensemaking, natural experiment and contextualised explanation. The authors further encourage the researchers to go beyond inductive theory-building and adopt the other methods of theorising to enhance the case study’s explanatory power and potential for contextualisation. Read a copy of the award-winning article here: https://rdcu.be/cbFJR
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Congratulations to Professor Rajneesh NarulaProfessor Rajneesh Narula has been invited to become a fellow of the Distinguished International Faculty Council at the Jack Austin Centre (JAC) for Asia-Pacific Business Studies at the Beedie School of Business. He has also made his guest editor debut for the Transnational Corporations academic journal. It fed into United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s flagship 2019 World Investment Report, for which he was a senior advisor. It can be downloaded here: https://hly.ac/2neLIAK
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