The John Fayerweather Eminent Scholar Award recognizes an outstanding thinker or researcher in any discipline who is not an AIB member but whose scholarship has significantly influenced international business research through new conceptualizations, theorizations, or empirical inquiries.
History of the Award
The award was named after John Fayerweather in 2015, to recognize his outstanding contributions as an early proponent and leader of international business scholarship and as one of the founders of the Academy of International Business.
Selection Process
Winners are chosen each year by a committee of AIB Fellows and publicly recognized at our Annual Conference.
Past Winners
2022
Winner(s): Marianne Bertrand
Affiliation: The University of Chicago
2021
Winner(s): Jay Barney
Affiliation: University of Utah
2019
Winner(s): Daniel Levinthal
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
2018
Winner(s): Jeffrey D. Sachs
Affiliation: Columbia University
2017
Winner(s): Dani Rodrik
Affiliation: Harvard University
2016
Winner(s): Kathleen Eisenhardt
Affiliation: Stanford University
2015
Winner(s): W. Richard Scott
Affiliation: Stanford University
2014
Winner(s): Richard P. Rumelt
Affiliation: UCLA
2013
Winner(s): David Teece
Affiliation: University of California-Berkeley
2012
Winner(s): Ikujiro Nonaka
Affiliation: Hitotsubashi University
2011
Winner(s): Richard R. Nelson
Affiliation: Columbia University
2008
Winner(s): Ronald P. Dore
Affiliation: University of British Columbia
2007
Winner(s): Douglass North
Affiliation: Washington University in St. Louis
2003
Winner(s): Oliver E. Williamson
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
2000
Winner(s): Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Affiliation: Harvard University
1999
Winner(s): Richard Caves
Affiliation: Harvard University
1998
Winner(s): Geert Hofstede
Affiliation: Maastricht University
1994
Winner(s): Edith Penrose
Affiliation: INSEAD
1987
Winner(s): Charles Kindleberger
Affiliation: MIT