2025 AIB UKI Awards

 Special Recognition for Service

• Professor Carla C.J.M. Millar – for her long-standing service to the AIB UK&I Chapter.

Palgrave Macmillan Prize for the Best Conference Paper

• Winner: Following the Lists: Venture Capital Firms’ Investment in Chip Manufacturing Industry – Yijie Min (Peking University), Xuchang Chen (University of Reading), Stephanie Lu Wang (Indiana University), Yanlong Zhang (Peking University)
• Runner-Up 1: The Connectivity Paradox: Impact of Global Disruptions on Adaptive Reconfiguration in GVCs – Soni Jha (Purdue University Fort Wayne), Ram Mudambi (Temple University), Vittoria Scalera (University of Amsterdam)
• Runner-Up 2: Involuntary Internationalization: Internationalization Motives Ecosystems – Xiaoshi Kinnunen (Aalto University), Daria Kautto (Aalto University), Aleksi Niittymies (Aalto University), David Carrington (Aston University), Sanna Sundqvist (Aalto University), Juho-Petteri Huhtala (Aalto University)

ESCP Business School Best Paper Award

• Winner: Lost in translation? DEI practice transfer at the UK subsidiary of a large US technology firm – Paul Caussat (Royal Holloway, University of London), Ji-Won Song (University of Edinburgh)
• Runner-Up 1: Navigating Turbulence: The Role of Resource Configuration in Developing International Dynamic Marketing Capabilities – Mariola Ciszewska-Mlinarič (Kozminski University Warsaw Poland), Piotr Wójcik (Kozminski University Warsaw Poland), Anna Morgan-Thomas (University of Glasgow)
• Runner-Up 2: Speed, Context, and Performance: An fsQCA-Based Configurational Analysis of SME Internationalization – Ash Sadeghi (University of Leicester), Omid Aliasghar (University of Auckland)

Peter J Buckley & Pervez N. Ghauri Prize (Best Paper by an Early Career Researcher)

• Winner: Navigating an institutional window of opportunity? The impact of technological decoupling on latecomer firms’ indigenous innovation – Daitian Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and University of Oxford).
• Runner-Up 1: A Threat or Catalyst of Change: The Role of Boycotts in Shaping Strategies of Multinational Corporations – Mahmood Aslam (Northumbria University), Robin Pesch (Northumbria University)
• Runner-Up 2: Lost in translation? DEI practice transfer at the UK subsidiary of a large US technology firm – Paul Caussat (Royal Holloway, University of London), Ji-Won Song (University of Edinburgh).

Michael Z. Brooke Doctoral Prize

• Winner 1: The role of big data analytics in international entry mode choice and subsidiary performance – Chi Vu (Durham University, UK).
• Winner 2: Do ‘Good’ Firms Acquire ‘Better’? Corporate Social Responsibility and Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions Success
  - Jeongsun Park (Warwick Business School, UK)

Neil Hood & Stephen Young Prize for Most Original Doctoral Work

• Winner 1: The Impact of Foreign Institutional Ownership on Green Innovation: Evidence from Top Multinational Enterprises in a Competitive and Protectionist World – Duong Huu Thi Thuy Nguyen (ESCP Business school, France).
• Winner 2: The relationship between TMT gender diversity and Digital Transformation – Yue Wu (University of Leeds, UK).

 
CPoIB Best Societally Engaged Paper

• Winner: Shareholder Reactions to Corporate Social Responsibility Cues in Foreign Divestments – Yulia Muratova (Aarhus University, Denmark), Ingo Kleindienst (Aarhus University, Denmark).