Dear Colleagues:
You are warmly invited to attend the following exciting webinar:
Title: The Academy of International Business Journals Webinar Series presents: JIBS Editors' Views on the Future of International Business
Date: May 6, 2025 from 15:00-16:30 US East Coast Time
Speakers: Rosalie Tung, Simon Fraser University
Alain Verbeke, University of Calgary
Lorraine Eden, Texas A&M University
Arie Y. Lewin, Duke University
Carl F. Fey, BI Norwegian Business School (moderator)
How to register to attend: Attendance is free, but you need to sign up in advance at: https://www.aib.world/event/aib-journals-webinar-jibs-editors-views-on-the-future-of-international-business/
Webinar Description: Recently Rosalie Tung, Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) has asked past JIBS Editors-in-Chiefs to each write an editorial about their views of how the field of International Business is evolving and the future of International Business. The editorials explore how the field of international business is evolving and what are the most important topics that International Business research should focus on as well as reflecting on what opportunities and challenges international business scholars face. The extent that international business scholarship needs to change 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-chiefs briefly presenting their editorials in about 7 minutes. 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 and including multiple JIBS Editor-in-Chiefs so this should make for a great session and not be missed. Questions about the webinar can be addressed to Professor Carl Fey, BI Norwegian Business School, carl.fey@bi.no.
The papers to be presented at the webinar are:
Tung, R. L. (2024). Perspectives on international business: Insights from the JIBS Editors-in-Chief. Journal of International Business Studies, 55(9), 1089-1092.
Verbeke, A. (2025). The value of theory-and evidence-based intellectual dialogue on foundational elements of the IB field. Journal of International Business Studies, 56(2), 132-135.
Eden, L. (2024). Exit, pursued by a bear! Global shocks and MNE responses. Journal of International Business Studies, 1-4.
Lewin, A. Y. (2024). Looking ahead for developments that could affect the field of international business. Journal of International Business Studies, 1-2.
Speaker Bios
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.
Dr. 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 terms as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies- JIBS, during which time JIBS'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 at https://www.voxprof.com.
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 乐文睿, is Professor Emeritus Strategy and International Business, Duke University and a Distinguished Visiting Professor: Fudan University School of Management, Antai College of Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Economics and Management Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University School of Management, and The University of International Business and Economics. 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.). He was also director of the Duke Center for Business Education and Research from 1995 – 2013.
Professor Lewin's research and consulting focuses on organization adaptation and change, historical economic progression, the co-evolution of innovation, and how China has emerged as innovation economy. Recent research and consulting involve case studies of open innovation at Haier, de-globalization, and decoupling, etc. He has written over 200 published papers and books including his 2016 book "China's Innovation Challenge: Overcoming the Middle Income Trap." and he has over 32,000 Google Scholar Citations. He has received many honors including: A Journal of International Business Gold Medal in 2019, The 2012 The AIB John Dunning Award, being elected a fellow of AIB, The Academy of Management Joanne Martin Trailblazer Award in 2008, The Academy of Management Perspectives Impact Award in 2012008-2013, The 2003 The Academy of Management Distinguished Service Award, and, the 1986 Duke University President's distinguished service award.
Dr. 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. For example, see Fey on CGTN's business/economics talkshow talking about his innovation research at: https://www.cgtn.com/tv/replay?id=BECAAAA
Questions about the event can be directed to the event organizer, Professor Carl Fey, BI Norwegian Business School at carl.fey@bi.no.
Best wishes, Carl
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Carl Fey
Professor
BI Norwegian Business School
Oslo
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