The leading association of International Business scholars in the UK and Ireland.
SmartPLS workshop at the
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:
All participants get a certificate of attendance! Most universities acknowledge the course participation with an equivalent of 6 ECTS. |
Research Symposium on GVCs and
The Leeds University Business School is hosting a research symposium on ‘Global Value Chains and the Commonwealth’ on 29 and 30 July 2019. The overarching aim of this symposium is to discuss the impact of Commonwealth countries on re-configuration of Global Value Chains (GVCs) in a post-Brexit scenario.
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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.
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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
Congratulations to Prof. Jeremy
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Congratulations to Prof. Prof Xiaohui
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New volume of the AIB-UKI edited book series
Prof. Rajneesh Narula appointed
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Congratulations to Prof. Peter
Congratulations to AIB Past President Peter Buckley on being named Fellow of the Japan Academy of International Business Studies!
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