During difficult times, it’s always nice to have something to celebrate—like the fact that our members are continuing to produce some of the most innovative research in the field of IB!

Our Annual Meeting has always been an occasion for us to recognize exceptional scholarship and AIB 2020 Online is no different. Please join us in congratulating this year’s nominees!

Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award

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2020 Award Nominees:

  • Reappraising International Business in a Digital Arena: Barriers, Strategies, and Context for Internationalization of Mobile Apps
    Noman Shaheer (Ph.D. from University of South Carolina)
  • In an Era of Disruption: Multinationals’ Responses to Host Country Political Violence
    Chang Liu (Ph.D. from Indiana University)
  • Multinational Enterprises and Limits to International Growth: Links Between Domestic and Foreign Activities in a Firm’s Portfolio
    Guus Hendriks (Ph.D. from Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  • Nonmarket Strategies Across Complex Institutional Contexts
    Patricia Klopf (Ph.D. from WU Vienna)

Temple/AIB Best Paper Award

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2020 Award Nominees:

  • Is There a National Culture? Nations as Diverse Mixtures of Global Values Archetypes
    Sunil Venaik, David Midgley, and Demetris Christopoulos
  • Intra-regional Internationalization Strategies: The Effects of Agglomeration, Distance, and Experience
    Santiago Mingo, Luciano Ciravegna, and Igor Filatotchev
  • Foreign MNEs and Eco-Innovation in Local Firms: The Mediating Effect of Imitation
    Yoo Jung Ha
  • The Role of Endorsed Branding of Global Corporate and Global Product Brands for Consumers Across Nations
    Carolina Sinning and Bernhard Swoboda
  • Not Passing the Baton: Whether, How Much and When Boundary Spanning Influences the Commercialization of Innovation
    Benoit Decreton and Felipe Monteiro
  • ‘Translating’ Management Practices Across Cultures: The Role of Boundary Spanners’ Social Capital
    Madeleine Bausch, Sina Grosskopf, and Christoph Barmeyer
  • Achieving Group Work Excellence in Diverse Cohorts of Higher Education
    Flevy Lasrado
  • Location and Capabilities for Digital Internationalization
    Noman Shaheer, Sali Li, and Richard Priem
  • Board Composition Paradox: Are Board Insiders Valued Advisers or Harbingers of Agency-Cost?
    Shibashish Mukherjee and Jelle Bonestroo
  • Subnational Depth and Internationalization of Emerging Market Firms
    Arpit Raswant and Chinmay Pattnaik
  • Offshoring and Job Insecurity – Do Companies Pay a Wage Penalty for Having Offshored?
    Alina Grecu, Wolfgang Sofka, Marcus Møller Larsen, and Torben Pedersen
  • Crowdsourcing Long-Run Memories of Involuntary Migratory Displacement: A Mixed Methods Analysis of the 1947 Partition of British India
    Tarun Khanna, Karim Lakhani, Shubhangi Bhadada, Ruihan Wang, and Michael Menietti

Alan M. Rugman Young Scholar Award

2020 Award Nominees: 

  • Employment and State Incentives in Transition Economies: Are Subsidies for FDI Inefficient? The Case of Serbia
    Uros Delevic
  • Enhancing the CSR-Consumer Brand Relationship Link: The Role of Corporate Transparency
    Martin Heinberg, Yeyi Liu, and Xuan Huang
  • That’s How I Grew Up: CEO Origin and Corporate Pro-Social Behavior
    Michael Juergen Mueller
  • It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It
    Carlo Brighi, Komal Kalra, and Mike Szymanski

FIU/AIB Best Theory Paper Award

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2020 Award Nominees:

  • Dominant Modes of Economic Coordination and Varieties in Firm Internationalization Support
    Florian Becker-Ritterspach, Knut Lange, and Matthew Allen
  • Translating Between Traditions: Setting an Agenda for Integrated Language-Sensitive Research of Global Work
    Ivan Olav Vulchanov
  • Disentangling the Impacts of CSR in Business Groups on Value of Affiliated firms: An Extended Resource-based Perspective
    Yalan Xu, Xufei Ma, and David Ahlstrom
  • Automation and Location Decisions in International Operations
    Linda Rademaker and Vegard Kolbjørnsrud
  • Individualism-Collectivism Cultural Differences in Performance Feedback Theory
    Mooweon Rhee, Valerie Alexandra, and K. Skylar Powell

“That’s Interesting!” Award

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2020 Award Nominees:

  • Reframing Our Theoretical Perspectives on Language Differences in IB: Leveraging Fluidity and Reciprocity to Achieve Linguistic Inclusion
    Martyna Anna Sliwa, Sylwia Ciuk, and Anne-Wil Harzing
  • What Is Boiling in the Pot? on the Patent Toxicity of Globally Banned Chemicals
    Elisa Giuliani, Gianluca Biggi, and Arianna Martinelli
  • Nations within a Nation? Pandemic, Subnational Heterogeneity, and MNE Market Share in an Emerging Economy
    Arzi Adbi, Anant Mishra, and Chirantan Chatterjee
  • Same Same But Different?  How Female Entrepreneurs in Beijing, Berlin, and London Manage Gender Stereotypes
    Sonja Kristin Franzke and Fabian Jintae Froese
  • Digital Identity: Glue Among Firms in Digital Business
    Ricarda Bouncken and Roman Barwinski
  • Does an Employee’s Accent Impact Customer Participation in Services?
    David Bourdin and Christina Sichtmann

Best Paper Award in Emerging Economies Research

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2020 Award Nominees:

  • Host-Country Institutions and Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises’ CSR Performance: An Institutional Knowledge Perspective
    Ding Wang, Jiang Wei, Yang Liu, and Niels Noorderhaven
  • Digital Product Innovation in Emerging Economies: Examining the Roles of Institutional Change Speed and Diversification Strategies
    Pengxiang Zhang, Chao Niu, Sali Li, and Scott Turner
  • Informal Family Firms Across Africa: Socioemotional Wealth as a Path Towards Economic Independence Through Prosocial Crowdfunding
    Vivien E. Jancenelle, Rajshekhar G. Javalgi, and Dominic Buccieri

CUIBE Award for Best Paper on International Business Education

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2020 Award Nominees:

  • Achieving Group Work Excellence in Diverse Cohorts of Higher Education
    Flevy Lasrado
  • A Multi-Country Student and Instructor Review of GlobalDNA Simulation as an Experiential Learning Tool for International Business Courses
    Frank Cotae and Jacqueline Musabende
  • Intercultural Effectiveness: Do International Experiences Move the Needle
    Iris Berdrow, Sam Woolford, Maria Skaletsky, and Allan Bird