Early Bird Registration Deadline: 17 July 2026
Regular Registration Deadline: 14 August 2026
Late Registration Deadline: 11 September 2026
Registration Policy: An active AIB membership will be required to access the registration form for this event. If you are not a current member of AIB or your membership is set to expire prior to 23 November 2026, you must purchase or renew your membership before registering for the 2026 AIB Central and Eastern Europe Chapter Conference. Membership transactions may take up to 3 business days to process, so please take that into consideration if you are interested in having your registration transaction processed by a particular date.
Conference Theme: Central and Eastern Europe in Transition Again? Rethinking International Business in a Changing World
Event Overview: More than three decades after the collapse of state socialism, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) remains a region of strong interest for international business scholarship. Once seen as a “natural laboratory” for studying institutional change and firm adaptation, CEE is now facing a new wave of geopolitical, technological, and sustainability-related challenges, which raise fundamental questions about the region’s evolving role in international business.
Against this backdrop, the 12th AIB-CEE Chapter Annual Conference invites scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to revisit whether – and how – CEE continues to offer distinctive insights for international business theory and practice. The conference will explore macro-, meso-, and micro-level dynamics shaping firms and institutions in the region, including geopolitical uncertainty, institutional diversity, upgrading trajectories, innovation, and changing business models.
Hosted by the Poznań University of Economics and Business as part of its 100th anniversary celebrations, the conference aims to foster dialogue on the relevance of CEE as a laboratory for understanding international business in an era of global fragmentation and transformation. During the conference, you will have the opportunity to meet distinguished AIB Scholars, including Sarianna Lundan (Aalto University, Finland) Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra (Northeastern University, USA), Ari Van Assche (HEC Montreal, Canada), Matt Raskovic (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand).