Submission Deadline: 30 December 2025
Send Submissions to: zju-aib2026@zju.edu.cn
Hosts: School of Management and the Tsingshan Institute for Advanced Business Studies, Zhejiang University.
Point of Contact: 0924235@zju.edu.cn
Overview: In 2017, ‘The Determinants of Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment,’ published by Peter Buckley and co-authors in 2007, was the 2017 AIB JIBS Decade Award Winner. Almost 20 years on from this publication we are in a very different global environment. Geopolitical disruption, technical change and economic turbulence are challenging the resilience of MNEs to adapt. At the same time, China has evolved to become a leading innovation nation and a key player in the global economy.
This conference will be an opportunity to reflect on the evolution of China and Chinese firms in the international arena, but we welcome papers across the IB studies field, with a preference for our key themes listed in our Call for Papers.
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou city and Zhejiang Province are recognised as innovation leaders, the birthplace of entrepreneurial firms from Alibaba and Geely to DeepSeek. 107 of the top 500 Chinese private enterprises are based in the province. Appropriately, our first conference theme (below) is international innovation and entrepreneurship in the digital era. This includes, but extends beyond digital internationalisation, digital platforms and AI as new enablers for international expansion and managing global businesses.
Confirmed speakers include Peter Buckley (Manchester Alliance Business School), Grazia Santangelo (Copenhagen Business School), Yadong Luo (UM Herbert Business School), Torben Pedersen (Copenhagen Business School), Jiatao (JT) Li (HKUST), Xufei Ma (CUHK Business School), Changqi Wu (Guanghua School of Management).