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

Congratulations to Prof. Elizabeth Rose for being 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.

CPOIB event at the AIB 2019 in

Copenhagen

Critical perspectives on International Business is inviting you to attend their event "Societally engaged, critical IB research" at the AIB 2019 in Copenhagen. The editorial team will talk about their vision for the journal, where cpoib stands in a metrics dominated publication landscape and what in their view constitutes societally engaged, critical IB research. Registration is not necessary.

Date: 25 June 2019
Time: 10.00am - 11.00am
Venue: Copenhagen Business School

Call for PhD applications


Strathclyde Business School invites applications for three fully-funded PhD positions under the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) for an October 1st, 2019 start date. The call for applications for PhDs are out now (details below), and they encourage those who are interested in pursuing a PhD in the area of Socially Progressive Innovation and Entrepreneurship to apply. Two of these positions are within the business school (deadline end of May) and one within the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (deadline end of June). Although there are only three fully-funded positions they are open to considering more applicants who are self-funded or externally funded.

Call for PhD applications

The Henley Business School at the University of Reading (UK) invites applications for a Double PhD in collaboration with the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (Italy).  Deadline: 15 June 2019

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.

Responsible Research Methods Symposium at the University of Birmingham

Date: 7 June 2019
Organizing committee: Dr Agnieszka Chidlow, Dr Maria Karafyllia, Dr Emma Gardner, Ms Diletta Pegoraro
Location: Birmingham Business School, Edgbaston Park Road, B15 2TT

The Department of Strategy & International Business, Birmingham Business School, is delighted to host its Annual Responsible Research Methods Symposium on the 7th June 2019. This event, in collaboration with the Academy of International Business Research Methods - Shared Interest Group, is designed to provide a forum for the discussion of various methodological issues and the dissemination of best-practice in the field. The symposium will bring together leading research methodologists to explore state of the art approaches to data collection and analysis, and promote the adoption of trustworthy, valid and rigorous approaches to ‘doing’ research. As such, it will serve as a guide in analyzing data responsibly, which may be of particular interest to early career researchers and junior scholars.

"Global value chains and Agenda 2030"

- Call for applications to participate

Research Workshop @ EAESP/FGV, São Paulo
Coordinators: by Prof. Rudolf Sinkovics and Prof. Ely Paiva
Location and dates: Brazil, Thursday 12 – Saturday 14 September 2019
Deadline for Applications: 31 May 2019
The programme, Newton Fund Researcher Links provides opportunities for early career researchers from the UK and Brazil to interact, learn from each other and explore opportunities for building long-lasting research collaborations. 12 early career researchers and doctoral students from the UK and 12 from Brazil will be selected to participate in the above workshop. The workshop theme is framed around the key question: “Global Value Chains and Agenda 2030: can sustainability standards harness companies’ contribution to the sustainable development goals?” It focuses on the investigation of the potential impacts that Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, agreed by the UN at the end of 2015) will have on management and production practices in Global Value Chains (GVCs). Workshop fees, travel and accommodation for invited participants will be covered by British Council Newton fund and FAPESP research grants.
  • Application material should be submitted by 31/May/2019 and include the following documents (PDF) in English:
    • Brief CV (2 pages)
    • A one-page motivation letter
    • Applicants with academic/research backgrounds to submit a research proposal (max 8 pages) in the domain (e.g. around PhD topic) or a research manuscript (e.g., working paper or a thesis chapter)
    • Applicants with applied/practical backgrounds to submit a brief outline of their involvement on SDG work (e.g. SDG sections in annual reports).

SmartPLS workshop at the

University of Manchester

Prof. Sinkovics, Prof. Ringle, Dr. Sinkovics and Dr. Becker are hosting a workshop on theory building and testing in Business and Management at the University of Manchester 23-25 September 2019. The workshop focuses on the following main topics:
  • Research question development and theorizing, theory building, concept development and operationalization of constructs (VosViewer, NVivo and Endnote software)
  • Introduction to state-of-the-art of PLS-SEM using the SmartPLS 3 software: Foundations of PLS-SEM and how to apply it by means of the SmartPLS 3 software.
This course has been designed for full-time faculty and PhD students who are interested in learning how to step-up their research towards well-designed and publishable outputs that potentially survive the test of time and are read and cited. A basic knowledge of univariate and multivariate statistics and SEM techniques is helpful, but not required.
All participants get a certificate of attendance!
Most universities acknowledge the course participation with an equivalent of 6 ECTS.

Presidential Research Fellowship at the University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is inviting applications for the Presidential Research Fellowship in International Business and Comparative Business Systems.

New volume of the AIB-UKI edited book series

This brand new collection edited by Agnieszka Chidlow, Pervez N. Ghauri, Thomas Buckley, Emma C. Gardner, Amir Qamar, and Emily Pickering focuses on how multinational enterprises manage in a changing commercial and political landscape.

Prof. Rajneesh Narula appointed

OBE

Professor Rajneesh Narula, currently the John H. Dunning Chair of International Business at Henley Business School, has been appointed an Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of his services to business research. Honorary OBEs are awarded to foreign nationals and selected from candidates put forward to HM The Queen by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
The AIB-UKI community extends their congratulations for this most excellent achievement!

Congratulations to Prof. Peter 

Buckley

Congratulations to AIB Past President Peter Buckley on being named Fellow of the Japan Academy of International Business Studies!

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