Date & Time: 6 May 2025, 19:00 UTC (View Local Time)
Host: Journal of International Business Studies
Point of Contact: Carl Fey (carl.fey@bi.no)
Event Recording Access: Current AIB members will be able to access a recording of this event in the “AIB Video Archive” section of our login portal. New webinar recordings are typically posted within five business days of the original event date.
Event Overview: Recently, Rosalie Tung, current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), asked past JIBS Editors-in-Chief to write about their views on the evolution of the IB field. These editorials explore what each scholar believes to be the most important focus areas for international business research as well as their related opportunities and challenges. The extent to which international business scholarship needs to adapt to our rapidly changing world is also considered.
Join us for an exciting webinar which will start with each of the editors-in-chief briefly presenting their editorials. This will be followed by a few questions on each paper after which we will have a panel discussion about the future of international business. The session will end with a Q&A session. It is rare to have a panel of such excellent international business scholars, including multiple JIBS Editors-in-Chief, so this should make for a great, must-see session.
PANELISTS
Rosalie L. Tung is a Chaired Professor of International Business at Simon Fraser University (Canada). She has served as the 2017-2020 Dean of the Fellows, Academy of International Business, the 2015-2016 President of the Academy of International Business, and the 2003-2004 President of the Academy of Management. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief, Journal of International Business Studies. She was formerly a Wisconsin Distinguished Professor with the University of Wisconsin System and has also served on the faculties of the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), and the University of Oregon. She is an elected Fellow of: the Academy of Management; the Academy of International Business; the British Academy of Management; the International Academy for Intercultural Research; and the Royal Society of Canada.
Rosalie was awarded the John H. Dunning Academy of International Business President’s Award in recognition of “outstanding service tos AIB and the field of international business”. She is one of sixteen International Business scholars awarded a Gold Medal for “most substantive contributions” in the JIBS. In addition, she is the recipient of: the 2019 Academy of Management’s Distinguished Service award; the 2020 Academy of Management, International Management Division Outstanding Service to the Global Community Award; and the 2021 Academy of Management, International Management Division Eminent Scholar Award.
Alain Verbeke, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is a Professor of International Business Strategy and the McCaig Chair in Management at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. He also serves as the Inaugural Alan M. Rugman Memorial Fellow at the Henley Business School, 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 (now Green Templeton), University of Oxford. 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 self-cites) doubled.
Dr. Verbeke’s main contributions to the field of international business strategy include, inter alia:(1) making the critical distinction between location-bound and non-location bound firm-specific advantages of multinational enterprises; (2) the subsidiary specific advantage concept; (3) the bounded reliability concept; (4) the concept of bifurcation bias in family firms; (5) substantial work demonstrating the dominance of regional over global strategies.
Dr. Verbeke is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and the European International Business Academy (EIBA). He is also an active member in the Strategic Management Society (SMS). He was the recipient of the double Gold Medal awarded by the AIB for his intellectual contributions in JIBS and for his service to the journal. In 2023, the was bestowed with the AIB Exemplary Service Award for his role as Editor-in-Chief of JIBS.
Lorraine Eden is Professor Emerita of Management and Adjunct Professor of Law at Texas A&M University. Her core research interests are transfer pricing (the pricing of transactions and allocation of profits inside MNE groups) and the strategies, structures and societal impacts of MNEs, where her publications are ranked in the top two percent of the world’s most-cited research scientists. Her Transfer Pricing Aggies program has placed hundreds of Texas A&M students in transfer pricing careers around the world. She is a member of the 2022-2025 United Nations Subcommittee on Transfer Pricing. Her best-known book on this subject, “Taxing Multinationals”, is now freely downloadable from her website.
Professor Eden was 2008-2010 Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies, 2017-2018 AIB President, and 2020-2023 Dean of the AIB Fellows. She received the AIB John H. Dunning President’s Award in 2012; the 2016 inaugural WAIB Woman of the Year Award; and JIBS 50th Anniversary Gold Medals for scholarly service and scholarship. She was also awarded the 2022 Outstanding Service to the Global Community Award from the International Management Division of the Academy of Management and, in 2023, the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) Award for Excellence in Societally Relevant Management Scholarship.
Arie Y. Lewin is Professor Emeritus of Strategy and International Business at Duke University, Fuqua School of Business. He is elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business and The Organization Management and Theory division of the Academy of Management awarded Professor Lewin the first Joanne Martin Trailblazer Award at the 2008 Annual Meeting. Professor Lewin was Editor-In-Chief of Management and Organization Review (2014-2021), Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies (2002-2007), and founding Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science (1989-1998) and the convener of the acclaimed Organization Science Winter Conference (1994 – 2008.).
His research interests center on strategic renewal of organizations encompassing studies of adaptation and selection as co-evolutionary systems, emergence of new organizational forms and adaptive capabilities that distinguish between innovating and imitating organizations He is the lead PI for the multiyear international Offshoring Research Network (ORN) project which focuses on companies in transition to globalizing their organizations, business functions, processes and services by tracking firm strategies, experiences and future plans related to global delivery of all business functions and administrative and technical work. Current research focuses on the globalization of innovation.
Carl F. Fey is a Professor of Strategy at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway which he joined in September 2022 and also an Affiliated Scholar at Boao Forum which is like the World Economic Forum for China. From January, 2016 – August, 2022 he was a Professor of International Business at Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki, Finland. From 2011-2015 he was Dean of Nottingham University Business School China and led it through a substantial period of change and upgrading. From 1997-2011 Fey was an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and then Full Professor at Stockholm School of Economics where among other things he helped start and lead the development of a branch campus in Russia. Fey is an elected fellow of the Academy of International Business and is recipient of the 2013 Journal of International Business Studies Decade Award.
Fey is an expert in international business, innovation, leadership, knowledge transfer, organizational culture, virtual work, internationalization, and international mergers and acquisitions. Professor Fey’s work helps firms to understand which management practices can help increase organizational effectiveness in today’s increasingly dynamic and international world taking into account the future of work and cultural/institutional differences between countries. Professor Fey has a special interest in understanding what practices works well in China. Fey is a highly sought-after executive educator and public speaker and also frequently in the media.