Webinars

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AIB SIG Webinar: Doing Research in Emerging Economies

Date & Time: 24 April 2024, 12:00 UTC (View Local Time)

Hosts: AIB Research Methods Shared Interest Group

Point of Contact: Roberta Aguzzoli (roberta.aguzzoli@durham.ac.uk)

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: IB scholars have advocated for more research that can enhance social impact and address Grand Challenges. One way of to achieve this aspiration is to conduct research in emerging economies. Yet, there are considerable methodological challenges when conducting research in different countries. To explore these and related issues, the AIB Research Methods SIG will be running a webinar on Doing Research in Emerging Economies. During this webinar, world-leading scholars will share their methodological experiences in using quantitative and qualitative methods to research emerging economies while addressing the methodological challenges and opportunities of doing research in those markets. This is a great opportunity for scholars to discuss methodological challenges, learn more about other contexts, and benefit from the experience of those with considerable expertise in the publication.

PRESENTERS

Fang Lee Cooke is Distinguished Professor at Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Her research interests are in the area of strategic HRM, knowledge management and innovation, international HRM, Chinese migrant business, and SDGs and HRM. Fang has published over 150 journal articles and 70 book chapters. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Business Review and Consulting Editor of Journal of World Business. She was a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Scheme) Visiting Professor, Georg-August-Universität Goettingen, Germany (2016), and visiting professor at King’s College London (2022) and University of Sussex (2020-). Fang is a panel member of the United Nations Environment Programme-International Sciences Council (UNEP-ISC) Foresight Expert Panel (2023-2024). Fang was ranked by a Stanford University study as one of the top 2% scientists in the world in research citation impact.

John Luiz is Professor of International Management and Strategy at the University of Sussex Business School, and at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town.  He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Los Angeles, at Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, at the Università degli Studi di Macerata, Italy, a Senior Global Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Institute for Advanced Study at the Central European University in Hungary, the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin, a Visiting Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and a Research Affiliate at Columbia University. He is a member of various professional bodies and was President of the Economic Society of South Africa. He was appointed by the South African Cabinet to the national South African Statistics Council and served from 2013-2018. He is on the Editorial Board of several journals and a referee for over a dozen more. John has published in excess of 150 publications including around 100 articles in leading journals. He works as a consultant and has undertaken work for the United Nations, African Development Bank, UK Department for International Development, Development Bank of Southern Africa, the Industrial Development Corporation, the Department of Trade and Industry, and the United States Agency for International Development, amongst others. He is active in executive education and consulting at several leading multinational corporations, public entities, and NGOs.

Helena Barnard is a full professor at GIBS and responsible for the GIBS doctoral programme. Her research interests are in how knowledge (and with it technology, organisational practices, and innovation) moves between more and less developed countries. She researches both organisational mechanisms (notably emerging multinationals and internet-enabled businesses) and individual mechanisms such as scientific collaborations, doctoral training, and the diaspora. Her research examines how these processes play out in the often turbulent African context. Prof Barnard has published in the Journal of Management (ABS4*), Journal of International Business Studies (ABS4*), Research Policy (ABS4*), Journal of World Business (ABS4) and others. She was on the organising committee for the Academy of Management Africa conference at GIBS in 2013, was the Academy of International Business (AIB) Vice President for Administration for 2017 to 2020 and serves as the founding chair of the AIB Shared Interest Group in Emerging Markets. She was the 2018-2019 Dunning Fellow at the John H Dunning Centre for International Business at Reading University. She has been rated as an internationally recognised scholar by the South African National Research Foundation.

MODERATOR

Duc Nguyen is a Lecturer in International Business at the Alliance Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. His research interests include qualitative research methodologies, cross-sector social partnerships, and the commercialization of science-based innovations. He has published his research on top journals such as Journal of World Business and International Journal of Management Review. He has been an officer at the AIB RM-SIG since 2018 and is the current co-editor of the RM-SIG’s bi-annual newsletter.

AIB SIG Webinar: Reviewing IB Conference Submissions and Journal Articles

Date & Time: 24 January 2024, 12:00 UTC (View Local Time)

Hosts: AIB Research Methods Shared Interest Group

Point of Contact: Roberta Aguzzoli  (roberta.aguzzoli@durham.ac.uk)

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: One of the most important tasks for a scholar is to provide feedback to peers by reviewing conference submissions and journal articles. Although guidelines are available, people who are new to reviewing or who seek to refine their reviewing skills may still have questions such as ‘How do you learn how to review? What is the difference between reviewing for a conference versus for a journal? What does a constructive review mean, and how do you write one? What are common mistakes that reviewers make? What are the differences between reviewing a quantitative paper versus a qualitative paper? What can you learn from reviewing that benefits your own work and navigation of the publishing process? What ethical issues can arise during the review process?’

To address these questions and more, AIB and the RM-SIG will be running two reviewing webinars (to cater for as many time zones as possible), during which current/former senior editors and researchers who have won best reviewer awards will provide tips and best practices for reviewing. The webinars are timed to coincide with papers for the AIB annual meeting being sent out for review. They are a great introduction for IB scholars who are new to reviewing, as well as those who want to benefit from the experience of those with considerable knowledge of the publication process.

PRESENTERS

Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki is a professor of International Business at the Turku School of Economics, University of Turku. Her research interests focus on qualitative research methods, the internationalization processes of firms and the role of time and context in research. She has published her research for example in the Journal of International Business Studies, Organizational Research Methods and the International Journal of Management Reviews, and has edited a special issue on time in International Business research in the Journal of World Business.

Tiina Ritvala is Associate Professor of International Business and Assistant Dean at Aalto University School of Business, Finland. Her research focuses on cross-sector partnerships between multinational corporations, nonprofits and governments in dynamic policy contexts such as sustainable cities and energy transition. She is alumni of the SCANCOR Weatherhead Initiative at Harvard University and has held visiting positions at Queen’s University (Canada) and at WU Vienna. Her work has been published in leading journals such as Academy of Management Review, International Business Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies and Journal of World Business. She is a member of the Editorial Review Board of Journal of International Business Studies.

Grazia D. Santangelo is Professor of Strategic and International Management at Copenhagen Business School. She researches across the fields of international business, global strategy, and innovation management. Her most recent research concerns MNEs’ strategies in the context of Grand Challenges and geopolitical tensions. She is a Visiting Professor at Henley Business School (UK) and holds a part-time professorial appointment at the University of Catania (Italy). Her research has been published in leading journals such as Journal of International Business Studies and Journal of Economic Geography. She is the co-editor of Global Strategy Journal and a member of the Editorial Review Board of Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of World Business. She is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and the European International Business Academy, and an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Academy of Management International Management Division.

Roger Strange is Professor of International Business at the University of Sussex Business School, UK. He was previously Professor of International Business at King’s College London, and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Pavia (Italy), Osaka University (Japan), Kobe University (Japan), Nankai University (China), and the University of Vale do Itajaí (Brazil). His research focuses on four main areas of International Business: the reasons for the outsourcing of primary activities and the externalization of production in global value chains (GVCs); the effects of corporate governance factors on foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions; the determinants of MNE subsidiary location; and the impact of new digital technologies on international business theory and practice. He is a co-author of Ghauri, Grønhaug & Strange (2020), Research methods in business studies (Cambridge University Press). Roger is currently the co-Editor-in-Chief of International Business Review. He is also a member of the Editorial Review Boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of International Business Policy, the Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal, the Journal of Management & Governance, and the Asia Pacific Business Review. He is a Fellow of both the Academy of International Business (AIB) and the European International Business Academy (EIBA). He is a former EIBA President.

MODERATOR

Bo Bernhard Nielsen is Professor of Business Strategy at The University of Sydney Business School, Discipline of International Business. His research is at the intersection of strategy, international business, and economic geography with specific focus on multilevel issues pertaining to strategic collaboration, firm internationalization, and strategic decision-making across borders. He serves as Consulting Editor, JIBS and is the co-founder and current President of the Research Methods SIG (RM-SIG) under the auspices of the AIB. Professor Nielsen has published close to 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, Journal of Management Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Regional Studies, California Management Review, among others. Professor Nielsen is ranked among the top 16 leading researcher in business, economics and management in Australia.

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Date & Time: 25 January 2024, 21:00 UTC (View Local Time)

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Hosts: AIB Research Methods Shared Interest Group

Point of Contact: Roberta Aguzzoli  (roberta.aguzzoli@durham.ac.uk)

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.

AIB SIG Webinar: Reviewing IB Conference Submissions and Journal Articles

Event Overview: One of the most important tasks for a scholar is to provide feedback to peers by reviewing conference submissions and journal articles. Although guidelines are available, people who are new to reviewing or who seek to refine their reviewing skills may still have questions such as ‘How do you learn how to review? What is the difference between reviewing for a conference versus for a journal? What does a constructive review mean, and how do you write one? What are common mistakes that reviewers make? What are the differences between reviewing a quantitative paper versus a qualitative paper? What can you learn from reviewing that benefits your own work and navigation of the publishing process? What ethical issues can arise during the review process?’

To address these questions and more, AIB and the RM-SIG will be running two reviewing webinars (to cater for as many time zones as possible), during which current/former senior editors and researchers who have won best reviewer awards will provide tips and best practices for reviewing. The webinars are timed to coincide with papers for the AIB annual meeting being sent out for review. They are a great introduction for IB scholars who are new to reviewing, as well as those who want to benefit from the experience of those with considerable knowledge of the publication process.

PRESENTERS

Lorraine Eden is Professor Emerita of Management and Adjunct Professor of Law at Texas A&M University. She has been editor-in-chief of JIBS, president of the Academy of International Business, dean of the AIB Fellows, and program chair for the AIB Puerto Rico meetings. With 40 years of experience editing scholarly books and journals, she now serves on the Consulting Editors boards of JIBS, JIBP, World Tax Journal, UNCTAD’s Transnational Corporations Journal, and the new JIBS Societal Impact Advisory Committee. Lorraine founded WAIB (Women in AIB) and was the lead author of AIB’s three Codes of Ethics (Journals, Leaders, and Members). She has received the AIB John H. Dunning President’s Award, two JIBS 50th Anniversary Medals for her scholarly and service contributions to the journal, Tribute Scholar at EIBA, and lifetime achievement awards from IFSAM and the AOM International Management Division for societally relevant scholarship and service. Lorraine has multiple publications related to the domain, ethics and methods of IB research including the co-authored books The Ethical Professor and Research Methods in International Business.

Fiona Moore is Professor of Business Anthropology at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research on gender and ethnic identity in multinational corporations has been extensively published in academic and popular journals. She has written monographs on German expatriates in London, and comparing Taiwanese expatriates in London and Toronto. She is also the author of the BSFA and World Fantasy Award-shortlisted book Management Lessons from Game of Thrones. She serves on the Editorial Review Boards for JIBS, Management International Review and Critical Perspectives on International Business. She also reviews for BJM, MIR, IBR, JWB, The Canadian Geographer, IHRMJ, JRAI and Foundation SF Journal.

Rebecca Reuber is Professor of Strategic Management and the area coordinator for the Strategy area at the Rotman School at University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the growth strategies of entrepreneurial organizations, including internationalization, opportunity creation and the use of social media. She is Deputy Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) and sits on the editorial boards of ETP and JBV. She was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and as a VP (Administration) on the AIB Executive Board (2019-2022). In 2022 she received an Honorary Doctor of Economics and Business Administration from LUT University (Finland) for her research on international entrepreneurship.  Her work has appeared in JIBS, JWB, AMR, GSJ, SEJ, ETP and JBV among other journals.

Alain Verbeke is a Professor of International Business Strategy and the McCaig Chair in Management at the University of Calgary. He also serves as the Alan M. Rugman Memorial Fellow at the 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. He has served two full terms as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies, 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.

MODERATOR

Stewart Miller is Professor of International Management in the Department of Marketing & Management at Durham University (UK). His research interests include international strategy, liability of foreignness, internationalization, corporate social responsibility, executive misconduct, foreign subsidiary performance and research methods.  His articles have appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Global Strategy Journal, Management International Review, and International Business Review among others.  Also, he co-authored (with H. Deresky) the textbook, International Management (10th edition). He is Immediate Past President and a Co-Founder of the AIB Research Methods SIG. He is Co-editor for Global Strategy Journal and a Consulting Editor for Journal of International Business Studies.  Currently, he serves on the editorial review boards of Management International Review, Journal of Management Studies, and AIB Insights.

AIB SIG Webinar: Varieties of Experimental Approaches and Designs

Date & Time: 30 November 2023, 14:00 UTC (View Local Time)

Hosts: AIB Research Methods Shared Interest Group

Point of Contact: Ursula Ott (ursula.ott@ntu.ac.uk)

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: This webinar is an opportunity for researchers at all career stages to refine their research designs and methods. Facilitated by the AIB’s Research Methods Shared Interest Group (RM-SIG), the webinar will cover the essentials and applications of experiments and address questions by attendees. The panelists will cover a variety of experimental approaches and designs. In addition to offering brief presentations from panelists, the webinar will be an opportunity for participants to exchange their knowledge and experiences after a general introduction to experimental designs for IB and insights from experimental economics.

PANELISTS

Simon Gaechter is Professor of the Psychology of Economic Decision Making. His research interests are in the area of behavioral and experimental economics, organizational economics, labour economics, and game theory. His main research tools are experiments. Currently, his main research interests are on voluntary cooperation in the presence of free rider incentives, and on the interplay of material and psychological incentives in incentive provision. He has published in American Economic Review, Econometrica, Science, Nature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Management Science, Nature Human Behaviour and Nature Communications. He held a £1.5m European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigator grant on the Behavioural Economics of Cooperation (2012-2017). He was recently awarded another ERC Advanced Grant on the Behavioural Principles of Large-Scale Cooperation (2021 – 2026).

Timothy Devinney is Chair and Professor of International Business at Alliance Manchester Business School. He has held positions at U. Chicago, Vanderbilt, UCLA, Australian Graduate School of Management and the University of Leeds and been a visitor at many other universities across the globe. He has published 12+ books and 100+ articles in leading journals. He served as an editor and associate editor of a number of journals and book series and sits on the ERB of more than a dozen journals. He is a fellow of the Academy of Management (AOM), Academy of Social Sciences, the Royal Society of Arts, Academy of International Business (AIB), the European International Business Academy (EIBA), and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Awardee and Fellow. He has served on the executive of a number of academic associations (AOM, SMS, EIBA, ANZAM) as well as university, corporate and charity boards. He regularly consults with major corporations across the globe.

MODERATOR

Ursula F. Ott is Professor of International Business and the Director of the Centre for International Business Strategy and Decisions at Nottingham Business School. Her research interests comprise strategic and interactive decision making in international organisations, collaborative relationships across culture and international negotiations. Her publications appear as books and in leading journals (Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Research, International Business Review, Sociology, International Negotiations etc). She has won international Prizes and Awards for the analysis of international negotiations with a game theoretical, experimental, and configurational approach. She is on the committee of the AIB Research Methods SIG and its Vice President for Finance.

AIB SIG Webinar: Writing a Mixed-Methods PhD Dissertation

Hosts:  AIB Research Methods SIG (Twitter)

Date & Time: 12 September 2023, 13:00 UTC (View Local Time)

Point of Contact: Hanna Gajewska-De Mattos (H.GajewskaDeMattos@lubs.leeds.ac.uk)

Overview: Hear from Evelyn Reithofer, winner of 2023’s Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award, in conversation with Niina Nummela. They will discuss how she crafted her award-winning research project and dissertation. They will cover topics such as how Evelyn:

-decided on her research methodology,
-selected resources to guide and justify her methodological choices
-went about her fieldwork and data analysis, overcoming challenges along the way
-approached the processes of writing up and publishing from her dissertation
-obtained and used advice and guidance along the way

The audience will have the opportunity to pose follow-up questions to Evelyn and Niina.

PRESENTERS

Evelyn Reithofer is an Assistant Professor in International Business at WU Vienna University and driven by a strong interest in politics. Evelyn’s research focuses on elections, corporate political activities, political crisis events, and inequality. In 2023, Evelyn received the Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award.

Niina Nummela is a Professor in International Business at the University of Turku and currently serves also as the Vice Dean responsible for Education at the Turku School of Economics. Her areas of expertise include international entrepreneurship, integration in cross-border M&As and research methods, particularly the combination of qualitative and quantitative elements in a single study. She is an experienced PhD supervisor, altogether 29 students have completed their studies under her supervision. Additionally, she has been invited as a guest speaker to many PhD programs to talk about mixed methods research strategies.

MODERATOR

Hanna Gajewska-De Mattos is an Associate Professor in International Management and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She was the Chair of the AIB/Sheth Doctoral Consortium 2023 and she currently serves on the Governing Board of the AIB-CIBER Doctoral Academy. She is a Director of Postgraduate Research Studies at the Centre for International Business, University of Leeds (CIBUL) and the Nordic Research School of International Business (NORD-IB) representative for the University of Leeds. She received her PhD from the University of Leeds, funded by the European Union’s Phare ACE Scholarships Programme. Her research focuses on a conceptualization of cultural difference and in particular the human processes in intercultural interaction and intercultural communication as well as qualitative research methods. She published her work in top international journals and she received the 2018 Emerging Markets Inspiration Conference Distinguished Scholar Award from the Stockholm Business School. She previously worked in the European Commission in Directorate General for Research in Brussels and she was an independent expert evaluator on a number of framework programmes in the European Commission.

AIB SIG Webinar: Qualitative Comparative Analysis Techniques and IB Research

Date: April 19, 2023

Time: 14:30 UTC (View Local Time)

Overview: This webinar will focus on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), particularly for international business (IB) research.  Facilitated by the AIB’s Research Methods Shared Interest Group (RM-SIG), this webinar will cover the essentials and applications of QCA for IB research and address questions by attendees.

PRESENTER

Thomas Greckhamer is the William W. Rucks IV Endowed Chair and Professor of Management at Louisiana State University. He earned his PhD from the University of Florida. His research focuses on configurational and discourse-oriented approaches to strategic management, qualitative research methodology, and qualitative comparative analysis. His theoretical and empirical research has been published in leading journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and Long Range Planning. His methods-oriented work has been published in leading research methods journals such as Organizational Research Methods, Qualitative Inquiry, Qualitative Research, and Field Methods. He serves as an Associate Editor for Organizational Research Methods.

MODERATOR

Stav Fainshmidt is an Associate Professor of International Business at Ivey Business School. His research focuses on the institutional and governance context surrounding multinational companies, and the ways in which organizations develop and deploy capabilities. His most recent research projects examine how multinational companies deal with tensions between federal, state, and local institutions, how firms expand internationally by learning from the offshoring activities of peer firms, and the ways in which firms can shape the tempo of change in their competitive environment. He serves as the Reviewing Editor of Journal of World Business, a Consulting Editor for Journal of International Business Studies, and an Associate Editor for Journal of Management Studies.

AIB SIG Webinar: Social Network Analysis in International Business Research

Date: March 3, 2023

Time: 15:30 UTC (View Local Time)

EVENT OVERVIEW

This webinar, the latest in a series facilitated by AIB’s Research Methods Shared Interest Group (RM-SIG), will discuss the nature of Social Network Analysis for conducting quantitative data analysis and reporting. Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a suitable and flexible template for studying the complexity and dynamicity of international businesses, especially considering the multiplicity of levels and units of analysis. However, adopting such a methodology is challenging regarding data quality and time spans.

The panelists are experts in SNA, and they:

-Will introduce the SNA principles and how these can be applied to IB research,
-Discuss methodological issues related to identifying network communities
-Present different network-based measures and approaches to tackle critical issues in IB research from a network perspective.

PANELISTS

Marianna Marra is Reader (Associate Professor) in international business and innovation at the University of Sussex Business School, UK. She is active in the research fields of international business, technology innovation management, and social network analysis. Her current research mainly relates to multinational knowledge networks and innovation. She studies this through the lens of IB studies and by using patent data and firm-level microdata. Marianna also researches comparative institutional analysis and studies how different forms of capitalism affect multinational corporations operating in different institutional contexts. Her work has been presented at international conferences such as the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, Academy of International Business, and Druid conference. In addition, part of her work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, Work Employment and Society, International Business Review, International Journal of Production Economics, Annals of Operations Research, and International Journal of Production Research.

Viacheslav Iurkov is Associate Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) at the Department of Management and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Strategic Management from BI Norwegian Business School (Oslo, Norway). In his research, Viacheslav investigates the impact of inter-organizational relationships on firm behavior and performance. He is particularly interested in the effect of strategic alliance networks on firms’ international expansion strategies and value creation in international and domestic strategic alliances. His research has appeared in the Journal of International Business Studies and other outlets.

Rafael A. Corredoira is an assistant professor in the Department of Management and Human Resources at the Fisher College of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Management from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on embedded exploration: how networks that originate from social ties, market dynamics, and institutional arrangements constrain and enable firms’ entrepreneurial search for innovative solutions. Corredoira has authored articles published in many leading journals, including Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Journal of International Business Studies, and Research Policy. His research received the 2021 Panmure House Prize, the 2007 International Management Division Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management Meeting, and funding from the National Science Foundation.

MODERATOR

Diletta Pegoraro (Ph.D. University of Birmingham) is an Assistant Professor of International Business in the Department of Management, Economics, and Industrial Engineering (DIG) at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Her research interests include the dynamics of Global Value Chain/Global Production Network reorganization at the sub-national level, the internationalization of local ecosystems considering the latest technological advancements, and International Business research methodologies. She has been an officer at the AIM-RM-SIG since 2017

An Introduction to Simulation for IB Research

Date: November 15, 2022

Time: 17:00 UTC (View Local Time)

Overview

This webinar will focus on an introduction to simulations while conducting international business research.  Facilitated by the AIB’s Research Methods Shared Interest Group (RM-SIG), this webinar will include an overview of simulations.

Organizational scholars have used simulations to better understand the properties of statistical techniques. In addition to describing the benefits of simulations, this webinar will also include an example of a simulation using Stata. Finally, this webinar will offer potential applications to IB research.

Speakers

Dr. Trevis Certo is the Jerry and Mary Anne Chapman Professor of Business at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He obtained his PhD from Indiana University.  Professor Certo studies how corporate governance structures and top management teams influence firm performance. His research explores these topics extensively in the context of firms undertaking initial public offerings. He also focuses on statistical techniques that help to isolate relationships of interest within large datasets. Dr. Certo has a reputation as a world-class methodologist. His work also included articles on prospectus data; panel data issues; as well various analytical techniques such as difference-in-difference models; sample selection bias and Heckman models; mediation models. Interestingly, Dr. Certo has used simulations in many of these methods articles. His research has appeared in the top journals in the discipline, including the Strategic Management Journal, the Academy of Management Journal, and the Academy of Management Review.

Dr. Stewart Miller is Professor of Management at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Also, he is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UT Health San Antonio. His research interests include: liability of foreignness, internationalization, CSR, and research methods.  He has over 50 publications including scholarly articles, cases, teaching notes, book chapters. His articles have appeared in AMJ, SMJ, JIBS, Journal of Management, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, GSJ, MIR, and IBR among others.  Also, he is a co-author (with H. Deresky) of the textbook, International Management (10th edition).  He is President and a Co-Founder of the AIB Research Methods SIG (RM-SIG). He was the 2020 Chapter Chair for the AIB – Southeast US Chapter Annual Conference. He is a Consulting Editor for Journal of International Business Studies.

Research Methods Workshops

Following AIB-Oceania Annual Research Symposium and PDW

Hosts:  AIB-Oceania Annual Research Symposium

Date: November 26, 2022

Join us in person on 26 November 2022 for Research Workshops with outstanding instructors – Tine Köhler, Bo Nielsen and Noemi Sinkovics – visiting from interstate and overseas and hosted by QUT Faculty of Business and Law, Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane Australia.

These workshops are organised in collaboration between AIB Oceania, QUT Faculty of Business and Law, the AIB Research Methods Shared Interest Group,Critical Perspectives on International Businessand Organizational Research Methods. The workshops are especially suited to higher degree research students, early career researchers, or those looking to extend their expertise in research methods. Discounted rates apply when attending and registering as an AIB member.

Choose from morning and afternoon workshops on offer, each of approx. 3 hours duration (including break):

  • Different Qualitative Coding Approaches: Choosing Methods with Purpose, with Tine Köhler
  • Multi-level Theory and Modelling, with Bo Nielsen
  • Literature Reviews in the Age of Information Overload, with Noemi Sinkovics

Registration

AIB members can register for the Workshops at a reduced rate using the AIB Member Registration link below. Those without AIB membership can either join AIB by using the AIB Member link below (you will be redirected to a Membership Subscription page) or choose to register via the Non-member Registration link below. Registration Prices for AIB members are US$18 (approx. Au$25) for one workshop and US$25 (approx. Au$35) for two workshops (1 in morning, 1 in afternoon). Prices for non-members are Au$50 for one workshop and Au$75 for two. Registration includes light refreshments.

Location: QUT Gardens Point Campus (P Block), Brisbane, Queensland Australia – next to the beautiful Botanic Gardens, South Bank Cultural Precinct and dining, and extensive river walks.

RM-SIG Webinar: Writing a Qualitative PhD dissertation: Insights from the Winner of the 2022 Buckley and Casson AIB Best Dissertation Award

Date: October 6, 2022

Time: 15:00 UTC (View Local Time)

Overview: Hear from Katherine Tatarinov, this year’s AIB best dissertation award winner, in conversation with Hanna Gajewska-De Mattos. They will discuss how she crafted her award-winning research project and dissertation. They will cover topics such as how Katherine

  •      decided on her research methodology,
  •      selected resources to guide and justify her methodological choices
  •      went about her fieldwork and data analysis, overcoming challenges along the way
  •      approached the processes of writing up and publishing from her dissertation
  •      obtained and used advice and guidance along the way

The audience will have the opportunity to pose follow-up questions to Hanna and Katherine.

Speakers

Katherine Tatarinov is Postdoctoral Scholar and Research Director of the Center for Innovation & Partnerships at the Geneva School of Economics and Management, University of Geneva. Her research focuses on social innovation, digital transformation and managing the grand challenges. Katherine lectures at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and is the Managing Director of the Geneva Innovation Movement Association, where she translates her research findings into applicable insights and community building.

Hanna Gajewska-De Mattos is an Associate Professor in International Management and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She currently serves as a Director of Postgraduate Research Studies at the Centre for International Business, University of Leeds (CIBUL) and the Nordic Research School of International Business (NORD-IB) representative for the University of Leeds. Hanna received her PhD from the University of Leeds, funded by the European Union’s Phare ACE Scholarships Programme. Her research focuses on a conceptualisation of cultural difference and in particular the human processes and emotions in intercultural interaction and communication as well as qualitative research methods. She published her work in top international journals and she received the 2018 Emerging Markets Inspiration Conference Distinguished Scholar Award from the Stockholm Business School. She previously worked in the European Commission in Directorate General for Research in Brussels and she was an independent expert evaluator on a number of framework programmes in the European Commission.

Moderator

Catherine Welch is Chair  of Strategic Management at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She was previously at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has also been Distinguished Visiting Professor at Aalto University, Finland (2019-2022). She has a track record of launching new disciplinary conversations and advocating methodological and theoretical pluralism. Catherine’s research has concentrated on two areas: qualitative research methodology and process approaches to studying firm internationalization. Her work has appeared in leading journals in international business and management, including the full range of major international business journals.  She was the first author on a paper which won the 2021 Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) Decade Award. Catherine is the current Book Review Editor of JIBS and is a member of the journal’s Research Methods Advisory Committee 2023-2025. She is Vice-President, Communications, and Newsletter Editor for the Academy of International Business (AIB) Research Methods Shared Interest Group (RM-SIG), of which she was a founding member.   From 2022-2025 she will serve on the AIB’s board as Vice President Programs. She also serves on the AIB’s Buckley and Casson AIB Dissertation Award Committee.

RM-SIG and JIBS Webinar: Reviewing and Editing Qualitative Manuscripts: Dealing with Potential Biases

Date: September 22, 2020

Time: 16:00 UTC (View Local Time)

About the Webinar:

Relatively few articles are published in IB journals with qualitative data. This is surprising, given that qualitative data can reveal new theoretical pathways that are important to cross-border business. In this webinar, Pratima (Tima) Bansal will describe the unique attributes of qualitative manuscripts that require reviewers and editors to take a different approach than they take with quantitative manuscripts and move beyond their unconscious biases. This webinar offers an important step forward in inviting more qualitative research to be published in IB journals. Tima will give a brief presentation, which will be followed by a commentary from Eileen Fischer and a dialogue with participants moderated by Rebecca Piekkari and Catherine Welch.

Speakers:
Tima Bansal, Western University
Eileen Fischer, York University

Co-Moderators:
Catherine Welch, Trinity College Dublin
Rebecca Piekkari, Aalto University

Implications of Responsible Research for International Business Scholarship and Practice

Date: Friday, 11 March 2022

Time: 10 EST; 9 CST; 8 MST; 3 pm (London); 11 pm (Beijing)

Co-sponsored by the AIB’s Research Methods – Shared Interest Group (RM-SIG), Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) global network and the Georgia Tech Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) this webinar is dedicated to various aspects of responsible research in the international business field.

The panellists will cover a variety of topics that will assist international business scholars in building a sound body of knowledge that develops theory and serves society. After brief presentations from panellists, the webinar will offer plenty of time for participants to exchange their knowledge and experiences centered on responsible research in the international business context.

Panellists:
Prof. Lorraine Eden (Texas A&M University, USA)
Prof. John McIntyre (CIBER, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Prof. Anne S. Tsui (Arizona State University, USA)

Moderator:
Prof. Agnieszka (Aggie) Chidlow (University of Birmingham, UK)

About the speakers

Lorraine Eden is Professor Emerita of Management and Research Professor of Law at Texas A&M University. A Canadian by birth, she received degrees in economics from Mount Allison, McGill and Dalhousie universities. Between 1995 and 2019, she taught courses on transfer pricing, multinational enterprises (MNEs) and international business at Texas A&M, where her Transfer Pricing program trained hundreds of graduate students. Dr. Eden’s research interests intersect economics, international business and public policy. Core research topics are transfer pricing, MNE strategies and structures, MNE-state relations, and shocks and responses (how shocks affect firm strategies and structures). She was 2008-2010 Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies, 2017-2018 President of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and is currently 2020-2023 Dean of the AB Fellows. She received the AIB Dunning President’s Award in 2012 and the inaugural Women in AIB (WAIB) Woman of the Year award in 2016. In 2019, she was honored by the European International Business Academy, received the Medal of the City from Rennes, France, and was awarded JIBS 50th Anniversary Gold Medals for her scholarly and service contributions to the journal. One of her recent articles, Eden and Wagstaff, “Evidence-based Policymaking and the Wicked Problem of SDG 5 Gender Equality” (JIBP, 2020) received a 2021 RRBM award.

John R. McIntyre is founding Executive Director of the Georgia Tech CIBER, a national center of excellence, emphasizing the role of techoinnovation and sustainable systems in international business-related fields.  He is   Professor of Management (Strategy & Innovation Area) in the Scheller College of Business with cross appointment in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. He received his PhD from The University of Georgia at Athens, following graduate studies at McGill, Northeastern and Strasbourg Universities. He was Research Associate and Fellow of the Dean Rusk Center for International Law, University of Georgia Law School. Author and co-editor of fifteen books, the latest:  The New Chinese Dream: Industrial Policy in the Post-Pandemic Era (Springer, 2021) and forthcoming The Role of Multinational Enterprises in Supporting the UN SDG’s (E Elgar).  Author of 120 articles in trade and academic journals. Recipient of the State of Georgia’s Governor’s International Award for international business education excellence; the university-wide Steven Denning Faculty Award for Global Engagement; the French National Order of Merit (Knight) awarded by the President of France for work in promoting US-European FDI; he is currently an honorary professor at ICN Graduate Business School, University of Lorraine, near the Georgia Tech European Campus in Metz.

Anne S. Tsui is currently Motorola Professor Emerita of International Management at the Arizona State University, Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Peking University and Fudan University, China. She is the 67th President and Fellow of the Academy of Management, 14th Editor the Academy of Management Journal, Founding President of the International Association for Chinese Management Research and Founding Editor-in-Chief of Management and Organization Review. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. She co-founded the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management (www.rrbm.network), an inter-disciplinary, global, grassroots movement to advance both the credibility and the usefulness of research for both business and society in the service of a better world. She has received numerous awards, including the best paper awards from AMJ, ASQ, and JOM, the Center for Creative Leadership Applied Leadership Research Award, the University of Minnesota Outstanding Achievement Award, the AoM Distinguished Service Contribution Award, and the IACMR Lifetime Contribution Award. She is the recipient of the Women in the Academy of International Business 2021 Woman of the Year Award. Dr. Tsui received PhD in Management from the University of California, Los Angeles. She also received an Honorary Doctorate in Economics from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Agnieszka (Aggie) Chidlow is Professor of International Business at the University of Birmingham (UK). Her research interests lie in the areas of location choices of firms as well as methodological issues in international business. She has received numerous awards for her research (e.g., the Danny van Den Buckle paper award from the European International Business Academy). Her work has been published widely in various leading academic journals in the field of international business such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Management International Review and International Business Review. She has extensive teaching and research experience by holding several teaching and visiting positions at various universities around the world (e.g., UK, USA, Sweden, Poland, Singapore and China) over 2 decades. Agnieszka is one of the co-founding members of the Academy of International Business Research Methods Shared Interest Group (AIB RM-SIG) and before becoming the AIB RM-SIG Vice-President for Responsible Research Methods in 2020 she was the AIB RM-SIG Vice-President Program between 2016-2020. She is also currently a Working Board Member of the Responsible Research in Business and Management Network (RRBM), a panel member of the Accreditation of MBAs (AMBA), Senior Editor for International Business Review and a member of several editorial boards of internationally recognized journals.

Writing a Convincing Methodology Section

Date: Friday, June 4 2022

Time: 7am New York, 12pm London, 1pm Berlin, 7pm Hong Kong

This webinar, the latest in a series facilitated by AIB’s Research Methods Shared Interest Group (RM-SIG), will provide researchers at all career stages an overview of best practices for writing an effective methodology section when submitting a manuscript.

The panelists comprise journal editors and experts in research methodology. In their discussion they will cover both qualitative and quantitative research. As well as offering brief presentations from panelists, the webinar will provide an opportunity for participants to ask questions to the panel.

Registration is free and open to the public, but you’ve got to move quickly! Signups close Thursday, June 3.

WEBINAR PROGRAM
Speakers:
Sjoerd Beugelsdijk (University of Groningen, NL)
Peter Liesch (University of Queensland, AU)
Bo Nielsen (University of Sydney, AU)
Catherine Welch (University of Sydney, AU)

Moderator:
Ursula F. Ott (Nottingham Business School, UK)

Multilevel Methods (MLM) in International Business Research: 

Utility and New Insights

Key Topics: 1. What is Multilevel Method and why should IB scholars care? 2. What are some pitfalls of Multilevel research and how to overcome them 3. Conceptualization and reporting of Multilevel research 4. The modeling of firm-time (within firm) data in IB research and how to interpret results 5. How to account for cross-level interactions 6. Examples of application of Multilevel methods in IB 7. Introduction to ORM forthcoming Feature Topic on MLM and statistics: The next frontier 8.

Showcase of papers from ORM Feature Topic on dynamic structural equation modeling and multiple-membership survival analysis

SPEAKERS

Mark Peterson

Sabina Nielsen

Paul Bliese

Le (Betty) Zhou

Mike Smet

Bo Nielsen (Moderator)

Doing Research During COVID: Adapting Your Research Design and Methods

Date: December 3 2020

Time: 9am New York, 2pm London, 3pm Berlin, 10pm Hong Kong

Overview: COVID-19 has disrupted all aspects of life, including research projects. This webinar is an opportunity for researchers at all career stages to consider ways to adapt their research designs and methods to respond to these conditions. The panelists will cover a variety of research methods, including qualitative fieldwork, experiments and survey research. As well as offering brief presentations from panelists, the webinar will be an opportunity for participants to exchange their knowledge and experiences. Participants will also be directed to resources that will assist them in adapting their research projects during the pandemic period.

Key Topics:

  1. Ways of adapting fieldwork to pandemic conditions
  2. Considerations for research design and data analysis
  3. Ethical concerns for researchers during COVID-19
  4. Useful resources on researching during COVID-19

Speakers:

  • Pervez Ghauri, University of Birmingham
  • Melanie Nind, University of Southampton
  • Amir Qamar, University of Birmingham

Moderator:

  • Ursula Ott, Nottingham Trent University

Speakers

Pervez Ghauri (Panelist)

Ghauri photoPervez Ghauri completed his PhD at Uppsala University (Sweden) where he also taught for several years. Currently Pervez is Professor of International Business at University of Birmingham (UK). Pervez is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Business Review (IBR) and Consulting Editor for Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS). Pervez is a Fellow for both the European International Business Academy (EIBA) and the Academy of International Business (AIB), where he was also Vice President between 2008 and 2010. Pervez has published 30 books including the best seller, Research Methods in Business Studies, now in 5th edition with Cambridge University Press. He has also published more than 100 articles in top level journals.

Melanie Nind (Panelist)

Nind photoMelanie Nind, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, is Professor of Education at the University of Southampton and Director of the Centre for Research in Inclusion in the Southampton Education School. Melanie is one of the co-directors of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods where she leads research on the pedagogy of research methods learning. She is currently Principal Investigator for the ESRC-founded project ‘Changing Research Practice: Undertaking social science research in the context of Covid-19’. Melanie edits the Bloomsbury Research Methods for Education book series.

Amir Qamar (Panelist)

Qamar photoAmir Qamar is Assistant Professor in Strategic Management at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham (UK). His research interests include investigating multiplier effects within certain supply chains, the employment footprint of MNEs, ambidextrous production processes, R&D initiatives and productivity levels. Amir is also an Officer of the Academy of International Business (AIB) Research Methods Shared Interest Group (RM-SIG).

Ursula Ott (Moderator)

Ott photoUrsula F. Ott is the Head of the International Business, Strategy and Decision Making Research Centre at Nottingham Business School.
She has a PhD in Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Vienna. Ursula Ott’s research and teaching interests comprise strategic and interactive decision making in international organisations, collaborative relationships across culture and international negotiations. Her publications appear as books and in leading journals (Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Research, International Business Review, Sociology, International Negotiations among others). She has won Prizes and Best Paper Awards at major international conferences for the analysis of international negotiations with a game theoretical and configurational approach. She is on the committee of the AIB Research Methods SIG and its Vice President for Webinars and PhD Programmes.