Our premier award for superior doctoral dissertations is named in honor of AIB Fellows Mark Casson and Peter J. Buckley for both their pioneering development of internalization theory and their ongoing influence on the work of emerging IB scholars. The AIB Dissertation Award pays special tribute to the rich, ever-evolving perspectives that have characterized these scholars’ works.
History of the Award
The AIB Dissertation Award follows the tradition of Past President, Richard Farmer, of Indiana University, who emphasized a holistic approach to understand the environment of International Business.
With new sponsorship starting in 2013 the AIB Dissertation Award now also recognizes the seminal contribution of Mark Casson and Peter J. Buckley for their 1976 pioneering development of internalization theory as an explanation of the Multinational Enterprise (MNE). In subsequent work, Buckley and Casson have applied internalization theory to explain other modes of international business such as international joint ventures, licensing, offshore assembly and the global factory. Thus starting in 2013, the AIB Dissertation Award recognizes the joint importance of the environment of international business and the nature of the MNE.
Richard N. Farmer was a member of the faculty of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University for 22 years. An internationally known scholar and prolific author, he was considered to be among the founding fathers of international business in the United States. He served as the President of AIB from 1977-78. After he died in 1987, the dissertation award was named after him. After the original endowment was depleted, the AIB continued to fund the award until 2012 in his name with financial support from the Indiana University Center for International Business Education and Research until 2011 and Michigan State University Center for International Business Education and Research in 2012.
Selection Process
The award is designed to reward superior doctoral dissertations in the field of international business. All finalists receive a travel stipend to allow them to present their research at the AIB annual conference. The winner receives a plaque and an additional scholarship award (specific amounts are announced in the call for submissions annually).
Past Winners
2022
Winner(s): Katherine Tatarinov
Affiliation: University of Geneva
Dissertation: Managing, Structuring and Scaling Innovation in International Organizations
2021
Winner(s): Rachel Pacheco
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation: A Contingent Theory of Governance for the Global Project Organization: The Effect of Diversity and Composition on Order and Conflict
2020
Winner(s): Noman Shaheer
Affiliation: University of South Carolina
Dissertation: Reappraising International Business in a Digital Arena: Barriers, Strategies, and Context for Internationalization of Mobile Apps
2019
Winner(s): Sungyong Chang
Affiliation: London Business School
Dissertation: Essays on Organization, Creativity, and Globalization
2018
Winner(s): Luis Ballesteros
Affiliation: George Washington University
Dissertation: Firms’ Economic Reliance to National Markets and the Corporate Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from Corporate Disaster Philanthropy
2017
Winner(s): Neli Kouneva Loewenthal
Affiliation: George Washington University
Dissertation: Three Essays on Corruption, Government Transparency, and Foreign Direct Investment
2016
Winner(s): Anne Jacqueminet
Affiliation: Bocconi University (Ph.D. Awarded by HEC Paris)
Dissertation: Heterogeneous Implementation of CSR in an MNE: the Role of Subsidiaries’ Institutional Contexts and Behaviors
2015
Winner(s): Michael A. Sartor
Affiliation: Queen’s School of Business (Ph.D. awarded by Western University)
Dissertation: Essays on the Relationship Between Host Market Corruption and Multinational Enterprise Strategy
2014
Winner(s): Marcus M. Larsen
Affiliation: Copenhagen Business School
Dissertation: The Organizational Design of Offshoring
2013
Winner(s): Lite Nartey
Affiliation: University of South Carolina
Dissertation: Networks Of Influence: Implementing Politically Sustainable Multinational Stakeholder Strategies
2012
Winner(s): Marc van Essen
Affiliation: Utrecht School of Economics and Business
Dissertation: An Institution-Based View of Ownership
2011
Winner(s): Prithwiraj Choudhury
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation: Innovation in Emerging Markets
2010
Winner(s): Jesper Edman
Affiliation: Stockholm School of Economics
Dissertation: The Paradox of Foreignness: Norm-breaking MNEs in the Japanese Banking Sector
2009
Winner(s): Daniel Rottig
Affiliation: California State University, Long Beach
2008
Winner(s): Ajai Gaur
Affiliation: Old Dominion University
2007
Winner(s): Rekha Krishnan
Affiliation: Norwegian School of Management
2006
Winner(s): Jon Erland Lervik and Gurneeta Vasudeva
Affiliation: Norwegian School of Management and Indian School of Business
2005
Winner(s): Renata Kosova
Affiliation: George Washington University
2004
Winner(s): Cyril Bouquet
Affiliation: York University
2003
Winner(s): Camilla A. Noonan
Affiliation: University College Dublin
2002
Winner(s): Jeffrey E. Johnson
Affiliation: University of Strathclyde
2001
Winner(s): Heather Berry
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
2000
Winner(s): Joan P. Mileski
Affiliation: Houston Baptist University
1999
Winner(s): Witold Henisz
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
1998
Winner(s): Lena Zander
1997
Winner(s): Tatiana Kostova
1996
Winner(s): Xavier Martin
1995
Winner(s): Subramanian Rangan
1994
Winner(s): Patricia Robinson
1993
Winner(s): Scott Xianfang Liu
1992
Winner(s): Srilata Zaheer
1991
Winner(s): Eugene Salorio
1990
Winner(s): Arvind Parkhe
1989
Winner(s): Paz Estrella e Tolentino
1988
Winner(s): Ching-Sung Wu
1987
Winner(s): Fritz Rieger
1986
Winner(s): Kwang Chul Lee