The John Dunning Lifetime

Achievement Award

Professor John Child
(University of Birmingham, UK)

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The Buckley and Ghauri Prize

The Peter J. Buckley and Pervez N. Ghauri prize awarded for the Best Early Career Researcher Paper - sponsored by the International Business School, Guangdong University of Finance & Economics.

Irina Minodora Surdu1 (University of Reading), Edith Ipsmiller (WU Vienna) “No victory without defeat? How foreign market re-entrants manage risk trade-offs following exit”

The Palgrave Macmillan Prize

Sponsored by Palgrave Macmillan and awarded for the best conference paper

Chia-Ling Eunice Liu (National Taiwan University), Noemi Sinkovics (The University of Manchester), Rudolf R. Sinkovics (The University of Manchester), Ram Mudambi (Temple University) “Knowledge connectivity in global value chains: lessons from Taiwan’s electronics and IT hardware industries”

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The GSJ Award

Davide Castellani (University of Reading), Katiuscia Lavoratori (University of Reading), Vittoria Giada Scalera (University of Amsterdam), Alessandra Perri (University of Venice) “Connectivity and the Location of MNEs Across the Value Chain. Evidence from US Metropolitan Areas”

The best AIB-UKI paper in the domain of Global Strategy – the Global Strategy Journal Paper Award – sponsored by the Global Strategy Journal

The RIBAF Prize

Huan Yang
(Lancaster University, United Kingdom)

For the paper
“Cross-border M&A and the Performance of Acquirer: In the Presence of the Origin Effect and Heterogeneous Treatment”

The Research in International Business and Finance Prize awarded for the best paper examining a topic in International Finance from an International Business perspective

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The Brooke Prize

Lijie Wang (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
"Localization of International Human Resource Management in EMNCs: A Comparative Case Analysis of Chinese MNCs in UK”

The Michael Z Brooke Doctoral Prize awarded for the best paper by a doctoral student - sponsored by AIB UKI.

Hood & Young

Prize

Ha Thi Thu Nguyen
(University of Vaasa, Finland)
"Foreign Divestment Decision: Effects of Cross-National Distances and Top Management Team Characteristics"

The Neil Hood and Stephen Young Prize awarded for the Most Original New Work in the Doctoral Colloquium sponsored by AIB UKI

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Adam Smith

Best Doctoral

Dissertation Award

Edith Ipsmiller
(WU Vienna, Austria) for the thesis entitled "New strategies in SME internationalisation: Real option, transaction cost and game theory-based export channel designs and configurations"

Sponsored by the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow

Best Research

Methods

Paper Award

Pushyarag Puthusserry  and Zaheer Khan
(University of Kent, Kent Business School, UK) “Collaborative Learning Approaches among International New Ventures Post-Entry Growth Stages”

Sponsored by the University of Birmingham for the Best Research Methods Paper

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