AIB 2024 Seoul may be over, but there are still plenty of reasons to celebrate. Our members have continued to innovate in the field of IB research and, as always, we want to recognize their exceptional scholarship.
All of our 2024 award nominees are a credit, both to our association and our discipline as a whole. Please join us in congratulating all of them!
Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award
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2024 Award Winner
Thomas Michael DeBerge, Loyola University Chicago
Between Ballots and Bullets: Political Competition, Uncertainty, and MNE Strategies in Politically Challenging Environments
Ph.D. Awarded by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Chengcheng Miao, University of Reading
Sustainable Global Value Chains and Impact Investing: Enabling Small and Medium Enterprises Sustainability Strategies
Ph.D. Awarded by University of Reading
Laura Kirste, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Managing Multinational Corporations in a Changing World Order: Institutional Pressures, Ethical Principles and Social Responsibility
Ph.D. Awarded by FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Soni Jha, Purdue University – Fort Wayne
Productivity Consequences of Connectivity in Foreign Direct Investment Networks
Ph.D. Awarded by Temple University
Stefano Burzo, University of British Columbia
The Impact of Investor-State Arbitrations on Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Public Opinion: Evidence from FDI Flows, Elite Interviews and a Survey Experiment
Ph.D. Awarded by University of British Columbia
Temple/AIB Best Paper Award
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2024 Award Winners
Ajai Gaur, Rutgers University
The Labyrinthine Path: Buyer Practices, Local Labor Regulations, and Supplier’s Social Upgrading
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Xinyi Yang, Tianjin University
Yanfang Huo, Tianjin University
Yicong Geng, Tianjin University
Does Transparency Moderate the Relationship Between Supply Network Embeddedness and Firm Innovation?
Christine Holmström-Lind, Uppsala University
Anna Ljung, Linköping University
The Business of Undertaking Social Innovation: A Capability-Based Approach to the Involvement of MNCs in Social Innovation
Entrepreneurial Orientation and SME Performance in China: A Gender Perspective
Catherine Welch, Trinity College Dublin
Constructing Composite Narratives as Representations of Lived Experiences: A Qualitative Approach for International Business Studies
Foreign Subsidiary Legitimacy: Parent Ownership and Local Governance
Qian Gu, Georgia State University
Yanqing Wang, Georgia State University
Jiamin Zhang, Peking University
Foreignness as a Double-Edged Sword for the Internationalization of Cultural Goods: Deep Learning-Based Semiotic Analysis of Hollywood Movies in China
Yongtae Kim, Santa Clara University
Dichu Bao, Lingnan University
Lixin (Nancy) Su, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
State Expropriation Risk and Corporate Disclosure: Evidence From U.S. Multinational Corporations
Alan M. Rugman Most Promising Scholar Award
2024 Award Winner
Yannick Tristan Wiessner, Erasmus University
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Organized and Petty Crime
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Manolito Hibanada, Uppsala University / HEC Montreal
Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity in the Cannabis Global Value Chains: An Exploratory Study
Sandeep Yadav, IIM Bangalore
When Does Starting Unregistered Impact Foreign Entry Speed? Evidence From Developing Country SMEs
Xinrui Liu, University of Greenwich
Returnee Entrepreneurs’ Culturally Imprinted International Experience: Effects on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Post-entry Speed of Internationalization
Anne Spencer Jamison, Copenhagen Business School
Harald Puhr, University of Innsbruck
Leaving the Backseat: The Active Role of Multinational Firms in China-US Decoupling
Der-Ting Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
To Enter or Not to Enter? Navigating Multinational Corporations’ Internal Sourcing Networks in Foreign Investment Locations
Constantin Lackinger, WU Vienna
Alone or Together: Chinese Overseas Lending Governance Structure Choices and the Role of Bilateral Relations
UNCTAD-AIB Award for Research on Investment and Development
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2024 Award Winner
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Shiqi Xu, Western University
How Effective is R&D Tax Incentive in Inducing MNEs’ Subsequent Investment in Host Country? Evidence from Canadian Microdata
Soni Jha, Purdue University – Fort Wayne
Shifting Landscapes: Impact of Climate Risk on MNEs’ OFDI Location Decisions & the Moderating Role of Network Contingencies
Tao Zou, King’s College London
Pathway of Breaking the Innovation Trap? Outward FDI, GVC Governance, and Domestic Innovation in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Chinese MNEs
Camille Reverdy, Geneva Graduate Institute
Building a New Reputation: The Impact of Voluntary Standards’ Adoption
AIB Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation Proposal
2024 Award Winner
Der-Ting Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Essays on Location Strategies, Institutions, and Knowledge Management
Runner-Up
Laurenz Tinhof, WU Vienna
Foreign Direct Investment: A Matching Perspective
FIU/AIB Best Theory Paper Award
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2024 Award Winner
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Lori Qingyuan Yue, Columbia University
Taking a Stand While Abroad? Towards a Theory of MNCs’ Sociopolitical Activism in Host Countries
Mike Peng, University of Texas at Dallas
Joyce Wang, Texas State University
En Xie, Tongji University
Sergey Lebedev, Kennesaw State University
Hubert Zydorek, University of Texas at Dallas
Madhurima Basu, IIM Kozhikode
International New Ventures and Born Globals: An Extended Conceptualization & Synthesis of Cross-disciplinary Theories
JIBS Decade Award
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2024 Award Winners
David J. Teece, University of California, Berkeley
A dynamic capabilities-based entrepreneurial theory of the multinational enterprise
AIB Insights Award for Actionable Insights
2024 Award Winners
Chih-An Lin, Fu Jen Catholic University
Yu-Yuan Shih, National Taiwan Normal University
Meng-Chun Liu, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research
Supply-Chain Restructuring Using the “China-Plus-One” Strategy: The Push–Pull–Mooring Perspective
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David C. Thomas, Simon Fraser University
Aminat Muibi, University of Victoria
Anna Jui-chuan Hsu, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Bjørn Z. Ekelund, Human Factors
Mathea Wasvik, Human Factors
Wenxin Wang, University of Leeds
Martin Heinberg, University of Leeds
Dayananda Palihawadana, University of Leeds
Shankha Basu, University of Leeds
Martin Eisend, European University Viadrina
A Meta-Analysis on the Brand Personality – Performance Effect: Culture and Country Development Moderators
David Wernick, Florida International University
“That’s Interesting!” Award
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2024 Award Winners
Steven Samford, University of Michigan
Michael Murphree, University of Sydney
Dan Breznitz, University of Toronto
Business Networks, Enclave Formation, and the Failure of Foreign Investment to Transfer Technology
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Niina Nummela, University of Turku
Leila Hurmerinta, University of Turku
Advancing Mixed-Methods Research in International Business
Antje Bierwisch, The Management Center Innsbruck
Futures Thinking and Arts – Fostering Creativity for a Sustainable World
Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, University of Vienna
Bareerah Hafeez Hoorani, Radboud University
Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki, University of Turku
Tiina Anna-Maria Ritvala, Aalto University
Problematizing Space in International Business Research: Towards a Social Production of Space
Filip De Beule, KU Leuven
Ari Van Assche, HEC Montreal
Shengwen Li, Queen’s University
Anthony Goerzen, Queen’s University
Best Paper Award in Emerging Economies Research
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2024 Award Winners
Chau M. Chu, University of Leeds
Foreign SMEs and Regional Institutions: A Study of Vietnam
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Chris Changwha Chung, Korea University
Young Bin Kim, Korea University
Yuejuan Yu, Shandong University
Jiatao Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Shusen Qi, Xiamen University
The Informal Institutions Matter: Clan Culture and Cross-border Bandwagons of Emerging-market Firms’ Exporting
Best Paper Award in Research Methods
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2024 Award Winners
Fiona Moore, Royal Holloway University of London
We Want To Learn All About You: The Interview as Ethnographic Event in Qualitative Business Research
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Lailani L. Alcantara, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
David S. A. Guttormsen, University of South-Eastern Norway
Cathrine Seierstad, University of South-Eastern Norway
The Entanglement of Inclusion-Exclusion Experiences: A Qualitative Study of Self-Initiated Expatriates in Japan
Shuang Hu, Zhejiang Gongshang University
Saileshsingh Gunessee, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
The Role of State Capitalism in Explaining the Performance of Cross-border Acquisitions from Emerging Market Multinationals: Evidence from China
CUIBE Award for Best Paper on International Business Education
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2024 Award Winners
Marina Anna Schmitz, IEDC-Bled School of Management
Antje Bierwisch, Management Center Innsbruck
Futures Thinking and Arts – Fostering Creativity for a Sustainable World
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David Wernick, Florida International University
John Branch, University of Michigan
The Belfast Distillery Company: Reviving an Iconic Spirits Brand and Taking It Global
Cross-Cultural Teaching in International Management Classrooms: Incorporating Post Modernist Paradigm
2024 WAIB Awards
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WAIB Best Paper Award
Lianghui Lei, University of Huddersfield
Honglan Yu, University of Huddersfield
Qihai Huang, University of Huddersfield
Yameng Zhang, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Inclusion for Growth: The Impacts of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems on the Quantity and Quality of Women’s Entrepreneurship
WAIB Emerging Scholar Award Winner
Nana Yaa Antwi-Gyamfie, CEIBS
WAIB Woman of the Year Award
Rebecca Piekkari, Aalto University
Best Reviewer Award
2024 Award Winners
- Ankit Agarwal, University of Adelaide
- Marco Balzano, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
- Kristin Brandl, University of Victoria
- Amanda Budde-Sung, U.S. Air Force Academy
- Stephen Chen, Newcastle University
- Cagla Dayangan, University of Southampton
- Jialin Du, Renmin University of China
- Jesper Edman, Waseda University
- Mosarrat Farhana, Mälardalen University
- David S. A. Guttormsen, University of South-Eastern Norway
- Angel Henchey, Carleton University
- Philip Kappen, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology
- Jihye Kim, University of Dundee
- Haiyang Li, Rice University
- Tatiana Lukoianove, Binghamton University
- Karen Lynden, UNC Wilmington (USA)
- Volkan Ozbek, Texas A&M University, San Antonio
- Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, University of Vienna
- Yao Qin, University of Manchester
- Matevz (Matt) Raskovic, Auckland University of Technology
- Ravi Sarathy, Northeastern University
- Maria Cristina Sestu, Groningen University
- Vikkram (Vik) Singh, Toronto Metropolitan University
- Angelo Maria Solarino, University of Durham
- Vas Taras, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Chin-Ju Tsai, Royal Holloway University of London
- Brian David Vera, University of Liverpool
- Magdalena Viktora-Jones, University of Southern Indiana
- Liang Wen, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
- Alara Cansu Yaman, Georg-August University of Göttingen
- Ze Yang, Zhejiang University of Technology
