While the use of techniques and tools such as fieldwork, subscription databases, and statistical software packages have helped many IB scholars produce vital, innovative work, these methodologies are often inaccessible to those without adequate university funding support. This barrier can be especially high for our colleagues working in developing economies. To help address this lack of access, AIB launched its inaugural Research Funding Grants Program in 2024. The goal was simple: Use our organizational resources to give more AIB members the tools and materials they need to conduct high-qua ..read more

leave a comment About Franklin Allen Franklin Allen is Professor of Finance and Economics and Director of the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London and has held these positions since July 2014.  In August 2019 he became the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research in the Business School and in August 2020 the Vice-Dean (Research & Faculty) there.  In September 2023 he became Interim Dean.  He was on the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from September 1980 – June 2016. He now has Emeritus status there. He was formerly Vice Dean and Di ..read more

leave a comment About Adamantios Diamantopoulos Adamantios Diamantopoulos (Ph.D., D.Litt.) is Professorial Research Fellow at the Department of Marketing and International Business, University of Vienna, Austria. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Senior Fellow at the Dr. Theo and Friedl Schoeller Research Center, Germany. During 2004-2023, he held the Chair of International Marketing at the University of Vienna. During 2012-13, he was the “Joseph A. Schumpeter Fellow” at Harvard University, USA.   He is the author of 200+ papers with over 54 ..read more

leave a comment About Alain Verbeke Dr. Alain Verbeke is a Professor of International Business Strategy and the McCaig Chair in Management at the University of Calgary. He also serves as the Alan M. Rugman Memorial Fellow at the University of Reading.  He is associated with the Solvay Business School (VUB) and has been a Visiting Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain and an Associate Fellow of Templeton College. He has served two full terms as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies – JIBS, during which time the journal’s citation impact (without sel ..read more

The AIB Fellows are a select group of distinguished scholars who have been recognized for their outstanding contributions to both our association and the international business field as a whole. In addition to selecting individuals to be honored with AIB’s prestigious annual awards, these accomplished researchers are responsible for leading official task forces and developing cutting-edge content for our global conference series. Please join us in congratulating the newest cohort of Fellows, many of whom will be in attendance at AIB 2024 Seoul. AIB Fellows Inducted in 2024 Xavier Martin ..read more

Dear AIB Colleagues, On behalf of myself and the other members of our Governing Board, I wanted to give you a quick update on our association’s first-ever certification program, the AIB-CIBER Doctoral Academy. Our first cohort of doctoral students, a select group of young scholars from more than a dozen universities enrolled last Fall, have participated in a variety of professional development workshops so far, and are currently being guided through the Academy’s robust curriculum by a group of leading IB educators. Substantial donations from several foundations have also made it possible for ..read more

The committee to select the AIB International Educator of the Year Award winner has now concluded its search and deliberations and recommended that we honor Professor Frank Bournois, Dean of the China Europe International Business School. Prior to this position, Professor Bournois served as Executive President and Dean of the ESCP Business School — a French business school and grand école founded in Paris with campuses in Paris, Berlin, London, Madrid, Turin, and Warsaw. Under his leadership, ESCP transformed into one of the world’s most international business schools with very deep Europe ..read more

The Committee to Select the International Executive of the Year Award has now concluded its search and deliberations and recommended that we honor Mr. Park Hyeon-Joo of Mirae Asset as this year’s AIB Fellows International Executive of the Year. Mr. Park is known as the father of South Korea’s mutual fund industry. Mirae Asset now operates as an asset investment advisory in some dozen countries. This distinguished honor will be conferred on Mr. Park at the AIB annual international conference in Seoul, South Korea, where he will deliver the Keynote Speech at the Plenary Opening Ceremony o ..read more

We are pleased to announce that Edward Freeman has been selected as 2024’s John Fayerweather Eminent Scholar of the Year by the Fellows of the Academy of International Business (AIB). This distinguished honor will be conferred on Professor Freeman at the AIB annual international conference in Seoul, South Korea in a special panel session. On behalf of myself, the AIB Fellows, and the award’s nominating committee—Dan Li (Chair), Ruth Aguilera, Anthony Goerzen, David Griffith, Jane Lu, and Elizabeth Rose—please join us in congratulating Professor Freeman on his selection for this well-des ..read more

The Selection Committee for the JIBS Decade Award is pleased to announce that the 2014 JIBS article “A dynamic capabilities-based entrepreneurial theory of the multinational enterprise” by David J. Teece (University of California, Berkeley, USA) has been selected as the winner of the 2024 JIBS Decade Award. The award, sponsored by Palgrave Macmillan, is designed to recognize the most influential paper published in the Journal of International Business Studies ten years prior and is presented at the annual AIB conference. In order to be considered for th ..read more