Shared Interest Groups

Get Involved with AIB’s New Digitalization Shared Interest Group

2023-09-11T17:40:01+00:00September 6th, 2023|AIB Newsletter, News|

Dear AIB Colleagues, I am excited to inform you about the newest Shared Interest Group (SIG) to be established within the Academy of International Business: the Digitalization-SIG (D-SIG). Why We Need this SIG: Digitalization is changing the nature of international business. Digital technologies are creating asset-light internationalization strategy, making platforms and [...]

How Does Membership in a Global IB Community Strengthen us as Scholars and Individuals?: A Statement from AIB President Peter Liesch

2023-08-18T18:12:04+00:00August 16th, 2023|AIB Newsletter, News|

Dear AIB Members, We often hear that international business has not before been as important to our world as it is now, to our economies and to our wellbeing in those economies.  It is likely that each successive generation of IB scholars observes the ever-growing importance of international business with the [...]

AIB’s Newest Shared Interest Group Spotlights Emerging Markets

2022-02-04T19:41:15+00:00December 21st, 2021|2021, Issue 4, AIB Newsletter, News|

We are pleased to announce the newest addition to AIB's growing roster of Shared Interest Groups: The Emerging Markets SIG. The purpose of this group is to strengthen AIB's programmatic offerings within emerging markets and to serve as a resource for research efforts focused on these regions. Emerging market regions have [...]

New AIB Shared Interest Group Targets Scholars Invested in Sustainability

2021-01-06T14:43:24+00:00August 20th, 2020|2020, Issue 3, AIB Newsletter, News|

Dear AIB Colleagues, We are pleased to inform you about the newest Shared Interest Group (SIG) within the AIB – the Sustainability-SIG. The primary goals of this SIG are to: Exchange knowledge across the wide range of academic subfields within IB for greater connectivity with sustainability issues in an IB context that [...]

Strategy for Sustainable Growth: A Message From Incoming AIB President Jeremy Clegg

2020-04-10T12:54:29+00:00February 3rd, 2020|2020, Issue 1, AIB 2020 Announcements, AIB Newsletter, News|

Dear AIB Friends, In this letter to you, my first as president, I will outline the direction that I intend to pursue during my term of service. But first, I wish to provide a little background on how I came to take on this role. For me, AIB has been the [...]

Passing the Baton to AIB’s New President

2020-01-03T21:11:44+00:00January 3rd, 2020|4th Quarter, 2019, AIB Newsletter|

By Chuck C.Y. Kwok As President of AIB, I was fortunate to preside over one of the most successful events in our organization’s history: our Annual Conference in Copenhagen in late June 2019. The conference broke several records. It had the largest number of registered conference attendees in our history, about [...]

SIG Update: Research Methods

2019-10-29T14:47:05+00:00October 29th, 2019|3rd Quarter, 2019, AIB Newsletter, Issue-Specific|

Recent Activities The RM-SIG held a variety of events throughout the annual meeting in Copenhagen. Seven research methods workshops, run by highly experienced facilitators, were held as pre-conference activities on June 23. The workshops spanned quantitative methods, qualitative methods and responsible research: The quantitative workshops covered structural equation models, partial least [...]

SIG Update: Women in the Academy of International Business

2019-10-29T14:26:18+00:00October 29th, 2019|3rd Quarter, 2019, AIB Newsletter, Issue-Specific|

Recent Activities WAIB hosted two panels this year at the annual meeting in Copenhagen. “Women in Business in Denmark,” organized jointly by Drs. Janet Y. Murray and Malika Richards, featuring industry panelists Pernille Erenbjerg of Millicom and Maria Hjorth VP Securities, along with Dr. Dana Minbaeva of Copenhagen Business School and [...]

Membership Announcement: AIB Dues Set to Increase on August 1, 2019

2019-09-24T16:09:20+00:00May 9th, 2019|2nd Quarter, 2019, AIB Newsletter, News|

We would like to let our members now that the AIB Executive Board voted unanimously on May 7, 2019 to increase AIB’s annual dues by 20 percent, with the dues increase to take effect as of August 1, 2019. Over the years, AIB’s expenses have risen significantly in the process of [...]

Teaching & Education SIG Activities at AIB 2019

2019-05-06T17:30:14+00:00May 6th, 2019|2nd Quarter, 2019, AIB Newsletter, Issue-Specific|

Our Purpose: Promoting Excellence in International Business Education Teaching & Education is a newly formed Shared Interest Group within the Academy of International Business, focusing on promoting excellence in teaching international business. Its main objectives are facilitating the development and sharing of best teaching practices, providing a forum for teaching-related networking, [...]