The leading association of International Business scholars in the UK and Ireland.
In collaboration with AIB Worldwide a decision has been taken to postpone the 2-4 April 2020 AIB-UKI Conference. The health and safety of delegates is of the utmost importance.

We are working to confirm a new set of dates for the conference and when these are confirmed we will email registered delegates. Please check the AIB-UKI Conference Website for updates. The registration fee for colleagues who have already registered will transfer to the new dates. We will refund the registration fee of any delegates who cannot attend the new conference dates. We apologise for any inconvenience and thank you for your cooperation.

Special Issue Call for Papers

critical perspectives on international business

“Working towards the Sustainable Development Goals in earnest –

critical international business perspectives on designing better

interventions”

Guest Editors
Noemi Sinkovics, University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand, noemi.sinkovics@auckland.ac.nz 
Luciana Marques Vieira, Fundação Getúlio Vargas/Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo - (FGV/EAESP), luciana.vieira@fgv.br
Rob van Tulder, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, rtulder@rsm.nl

Call for Papers


“Time Matters: Rethinking the Role of Time in International Business

Research”

Guest Editors:
Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, University of Vienna, Austria
Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki, University of Turku, Finland
Melanie E. Hassett, University of Sheffield, UK
Elizabeth L. Rose, University of Leeds, UK
Peter W. Liesch, The University of Queensland, Australia

Paper Development Workshops in Marketing

Academy of International Business

Looking to make your mark in a top marketing journal? Seeking guidance to prepare your article for publication?
The Academy of International Business (AIB) offers pre-conference paper development workshops (PDWs) at its annual conference in Miami, USA, July 2-6, 2020.
The workshops emphasize international marketing—the perfect opportunity to build your skill set and get advice from fellow marketing specialists.  PDWs will be offered by the editors of Journal of International Marketing and International Marketing Review.
Apply by February 28 and you could get expert feedback from top editorial teams:
Journal of International Marketing PDW
International Marketing Review PDW
These PDWs have a limited capacity, so apply early to save your spot.
We look forward to supporting your international marketing ambitions in 2020 and beyond.

The new AIB UK&I book is out!

This book, edited by Shirodkar, Strange, and McGuire, provides theoretical and empirical insights into non-market political and social strategies that firms use when conducting international business. Political strategies include activities such as lobbying, campaign contributions, and using political ties and connections as a means of influencing policy making. Likewise, firms also engage in various social responsibility activities to maintain a good image in society and to improve their legitimacy and reputation when operating globally. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) face various challenges in implementing non-market strategies due to institutional differences between their home and host contexts. Presenting fresh perspectives from a cast of international contributors, this book offers academics, students, and practitioners a greater understanding of how non-market strategies can be effective in international business.

Dekaban-Liddle Funding Opportunity for the Glasgow Conference

The Glasgow-Warsaw Dekaban-Liddle Foundation is delighted to announce a new funding opportunity for 2020! The Foundation will support up to five places for researchers based in Poland to attend and present papers at the upcoming 47th Academy of International Business UK and Ireland (AIB-UKI) Chapter Conference to be held at the University of Glasgow from 2-4 April 2020.
Eligibility:
Researchers must be affiliated with and based at universities in Poland, and have a competitive, interactive or poster paper accepted by the AIB-UKI Conference. Participants are expected to present their paper at the conference in Glasgow.
Funding details:Funding will cover registration, travel, accommodation and reasonable subsistence expenses (up to a maximum of £1,200). Travel and accommodation bookings will be organised by the Dekaban Team at the University of Glasgow.
Application process:
  1. Submit a paper for review through the conference’s Conftool system by 15 January 2020;
  2. Complete and submit the Dekaban Liddle Conference Funding Application to business-dekaban@glasgow.ac.uk by 15 January 2020.
The University of Glasgow will inform applicants of the outcome of the conference review process and the Dekaban funding application.

Following the presentation of their paper at the conference, successful applicants will be required to complete a brief form for the Dekaban Foundation detailing the benefits they gained from attending the conference and possible suggestions on how this funding process could improve in the future. The form should be emailed to business-dekaban@glasgow.ac.uk by 1 May 2020.

International Business in Ireland: Fostering a research agenda for the field

On October 25th in Trinity Business School, the AIB-UKI paper development workshop International Business in Ireland: Fostering a research agenda for the field welcomed the growing body of IB scholars in Ireland for a day of research dialogue and knowledge exchange. Organised by Dr. Sinéad Monaghan (Trinity College Dublin) and Professor Esther Tippmann (NUI Galway), this one-day specialised workshop included a Meet the Editors session and three in-depth paper development sessions in the areas of international entrepreneurship, subsidiary management and international finance and economics. Professor Keith Brouthers (Kings College London), Professor Esther Tippmann (NUI Galway) and Professor Frank Barry (Trinity College Dublin) were invited to coordinate these sessions and provide constructive feedback on early papers. In the spirit of the AIB community, all participants of the workshop shared comments on the presented work and there was a great sense of collaboration. Co-sponsored by Academy of International Business (UK and Ireland Chapter) and Trinity Business School, this workshop succeeded in stimulating discussion, facilitating the development of new and novel research ideas and providing a forum to support a growing IB community.

Congratulations to Prof. Rajneesh Narula

Professor 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

Did you miss the symposium on

"GVCs and the Commonwealth"?

The Commonwealth Research Network in International Business, based at the James E. Lynch India and South Asia Business Centre, Leeds University Business School, in collaboration with The Academy of International Business successfully convened a symposium on ‘Global Value Chains and the Commonwealth’ on the 29th and 30th July 2019. The symposium focused on strengthening participation of the Commonwealth countries in Global Value Chains (GVC) and presenting a case of intra-Commonwealth Value Chain. Engagement of many eminent scholars, industry experts, and policy makers revealed some very important aspects relating to GVC and the Commonwealth, besides raising few questions for future research.

Congratulations to Prof. Peter

Buckley!

Many congratulations to Professor Peter Buckley on being awarded the 3rd European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) Interdisciplinary Leader Award http://bit.ly/2nbWOXl

Prof. Elizabeth Rose elected 2019 Woman of the Year

Elizabeth Rose, Professor of International Business at the University of Leeds (UK), has been elected 2019 Woman of the Year by Women in AIB (WAIB). Elizabeth is Visiting Professor of International Business at the Aalto University School of Business (Finland), Adjunct Professor of Business Policy and Strategy at the Indian Institute of Management Udaipur (India), and Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB). Widely published, Beth emphasizes robust modelling, with ongoing interests in internationalization activities of service-sector and smaller firms. Beth has served as AIB Vice President for Administration and is Past President of the Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy (ANZIBA) and the Association of Japanese Business Studies (AJBS). Beth was the founding Chair of AIB’s Australia and New Zealand Chapter (AIB-Oceania), Chair of the Strategic Management Society’s Global SIG, and Chair of the Research Committee of the Academy of Management’s International Management Division. Beth currently serves as Chair of the Division for 2018-2019.

Celebrating the success of our first AIB-UKI speed mentoring event for

women

Testimonials:

“Thank you for your time and advice during the speed mentoring session at AIB UKI last week. I found our conversation really beneficial and am sincerely grateful for your insights. Moreover, this was an excellent event and you should be very proud! I’m already looking forward to next year’s event – in Glasgow!” Dr. Sinéad Monaghan, The University of Dublin

“Thank you so much for organizing the Speed Mentoring event. It was really helpful. I look forward to similar events in future conferences and please do let me know if I can be of any help”. Garima Garg, University of Massachusetts

“Many thanks for organising such fantastic event. I found that the session is truly helpful for career development and networking. I have already incorporated my mentors’ suggestions into my everyday work. I’m looking forward to participating at the mentoring events in the future AIB conferences. Thanks very much for the lovely photo which is a great memory to keep!” Dr Ying Zhang, University of Strathclyde
 
“Many thanks for reaching out.  In my view, it was a great event, useful and engaging.  The comments received from the facilitator was very insightful. I look forward to attending again next year.” Dr Heba Yoonis, London South Bank University
 
“I am very grateful for all mentors sharing their experience. Their comments and suggestions are immensely encouraging. If there is anything that I can contribute to future sessions, I would be happy to take part.”  Dr Jing-Lin Duanmu, University of Surrey
Building on the inaugural Event at the AIB conference in Minneapolis 2018, the AIB UK&I launched its first Speed Mentoring Event for Women in AIB at the conference hosted by the University of Sussex in 2019. Speed mentoring aims to provide a supportive platform for women who are junior faculty, early career researchers and doctoral students to engage in one-on-one interactions with senior women academic mentors through a series of focused conversations about career-related issues. The mentor-mentee conversation aims to provide helpful advice on a wide range of topics to women looking for answers and insights to career-related questions and challenges they are facing. The mentors share their experience, skills and knowledge with the mentee, who is less experienced in navigating the professional and personal challenges of building their career.
 
Speed mentoring is a relatively new format that focuses on quick-hit information and time-efficient networking, by providing a venue and structured method for participants to seek out answers to their most pressing career challenges. It helps to address challenges which the more formal WAIB mentoring program faced, such as the difficulty of program management, matching mentors and mentees in terms of preferences and background, time constraints on the part of both mentors and mentees to develop and maintain meaningful and useful relationships, and finding a sufficient number of committed mentors to match with the number of mentees.
 
The UK&I event was very successful, 10 senior IB scholars and 22 mentees participated. The feedback from both mentors and mentees has been excellent. We intend that the session helps to support women to develop their careers and retain them in the academic ‘pipeline’ where they can go on to fully participate in the IB research community over the long term. We know that in the business community and the professions there is an underrepresentation of women in senior roles (Women in the Workplace report, McKinsey, 2018) This applies to academia in the UK, and whereby there are low numbers of women holding senior academic posts, for example in the region of only 20% of professors are women.  

To read the blog post by Dr Margaret Fletcher about the benefits of attending speed mentoring session, click on the button below.

Congratulations to the 2019 AIB UKI Conference Prize Winners

At the annual conference of the UK & Ireland Chapter of the Academy of International Business held in Brighton at the University of Sussex 25-27 April 2019, nine prestigious prizes have been awarded for a wide range of outstanding achievements.

Congratulations to Prof. Jeremy

Clegg

Professor Jeremy Clegg has been elected president of the Academy of International Business (AIB World). He will commence his term on the 1st August 2019. Jeremy is is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and International Business Management at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom.

Congratulations to Prof. Prof Xiaohui

Liu


Professor Xiaohui Liu has been elected treasurer of the UK and Ireland Chapter of the Academy of International Business at the 2019 annual conference at the University of Sussex. Xiaohui Liu is Professor of International Business at the University of Birmingham.

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