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Welcome to AIB-UKI

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

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

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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.
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Congratulations to Prof. Peter

Buckley!

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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

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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

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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.

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Congratulations to the 2019 AIB UKI Conference Prize Winners

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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.
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Congratulations to Prof. Jeremy

Clegg

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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

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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.



New volume of the AIB-UKI edited book series

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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.

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Prof. Rajneesh Narula appointed

OBE

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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!

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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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