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AIB Newsletter VOL. 20, NO. 3 THIRD QUARTER 2014 Note from the President Nakiye Boyacigiller AIB President Inside Dear Colleagues, our local hosts Prof S. Raghunath and his Nominations Sought colleagues at IIM Bangalore will all work for Officers to AIB I am delighted to be writing you as your tirelessly to put together an excellent Board 2015-2018 . 3 new President. I remember with fondness program. Please see the Call for Papers my first AIB meeting way back in 1986! included in this issue. Our Bangalore 2015 Bangalore Call for Papers . 4 Over the years AIB has helped me grow as meeting is one more example of AIB’s a scholar and leader, so it gives me great increasing interest in and commitment to AIB 2014 Vancouver pleasure to be in a position to give back at emerging markets. With past conferences Conference this level. The previous boards and presi- in China, Brazil and Turkey and upcoming Wrap-up . 6 dents have started many new initiatives; ones in India and Dubai, I believe we are AIB 2014 Program I am very proud of all that AIB is doing. giving our members a great opportunity Committee . 8 This letter will give me the opportunity to learn about these increasingly impor- Conference to discuss only a few of those; stay tuned tant economic actors. At the same time, Sponsors . 9 for more developments in newsletters to we realize that going to these emerging come. markets sometimes brings challenges 2014 Award My deep appreciation goes to Rob as well. As Local Host for our Istanbul Recipients . .. 10 Grosse for his work as President last year meeting in 2013, I spent countless hours 2014 Best Reviewer as well as our outgoing board members: trying to anticipate how the Gezi protests Awards . 11 Mary Ann Von Glinow, Patricia MacDou- might impact our conference. Thank- Sheth Foundation gall and Peter Liesch. Our organization is fully, we had no problems to speak of, but Doctoral Travel much stronger for their dedicated service. we had put a lot of effort into ensuring Stipends . 12 Starting with my term, each President that we would be ready if need be. Was it now serves only one year so the transi- worth it? I believe most of us would argue Area Scholarship Fellowships . 13 tion to a new board structure (based on that the benefits we get by experiencing the Constitution and Bylaws approved in these countries first-hand far outweigh the Boeing Institute 2012) is finally complete. While a one-year additional challenges. Junior Faculty presidency appears quite short, the three- In addition, I am happy to report that Consortium year term (as president elect, president some of our most active chapters are in Stipends . 13 and immediate past president) will in fact emerging markets (e.g. MENA, South- WAIB Helping Hands allow for greater continuity on the board. east Asia, India, and Latin America). Our Awards . 13 I look forward to working closely with Sub-Saharan Africa chapter held their New Members . 14 Rob and President elect, Rosalie Tung in inaugural conference this August, to great the coming year reviews. Central and Eastern Europe will Just off the Press . 15 Like many of you, I have never had the be holding their inaugural conference this Special Interest opportunity to visit India (which in fact fall and the newly formed Bolivia chapter Conferences Request embarrasses me as an IB scholar). I am is also gearing up towards their first for Proposals . 16 thus deeply excited that this year’s annual meeting. Local chapters are a great venue meeting will be in Bangalore. I know for meeting new colleagues, presenting that Ram Mudambi, the track chairs, and Continued on page 2 Continued from page 1 papers and getting more involved with the AIB. Another recent initiative is the board’s decision to support smaller, regionally based meetings addressing specific themes, geographic areas or industries. These special conferences are designed to attract new members and to provide additional opportuni- ties for members to participate in AIB confer- JOIN US FOR AIB 2015! ences. Please see the Special Conferences Request for Proposals in this issue and on the AIB invites you to join us at the AIB Website (http://aib.msu.edu/events/special- 2015 meeting in Bengaluru, India interest.asp) June 27-30, 2015 As most of you already know, we lost our dear friend, colleague, former AIB President Conference Theme: and Dean of the Fellows, Alan Rugman this Global Networks: Organizations and People past July. His untimely and very sudden death has saddened all of his friends in AIB and the Program Chair: wider academic community. It is hard for me Ram Mudambi, Fox School of Business, to imagine an AIB conference without Alan’s Temple University piercing questions and warm smile. He will be sorely missed. Please know that we on the AIB Local Host Institution: Board will be working together with the AIB Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore Fellows to find a fitting tribute for Alan. Local Host Committee Chair: My warmest regards, S. Raghunath Nakiye A. Boyacigiller AIB Newsletter (ISSN: 1520-6262) is published quarterly by the Academy of International Business Executive Secretariat. For more information, please contact: G. Tomas M. Hult, Executive Director, or Tunga Kiyak, Managing Director, Eppley Center, 645 N Shaw Ln Rm 7, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824. Tel: +1-517-432-1452 Fax: +1-517-432-1009 • Email: [email protected] http://aib.msu.edu EXECUTIVE BOARD CHAPTER CHAIRPERSONS Middle East and JOURNAL OF Australia-New Zealand Chapter North Africa Chapter INTERNATIONAL President Elizabeth Rose Melodena Balakrishnan BUSINESS STUDIES Nakiye Boyacigiller Southeast Asia Chapter Editor-in-Chief President-Elect Bolivia Chapter T .S . Chan John A . Cantwell Rosalie Tung Sergio Garcia-Agreda Ballivian United Kingdom and Managing Editor Immediate Past President Central and Eastern Ireland Chapter Anne Hoekman Robert Grosse Europe Chapter Lukasz Puslecki Heinz Tuselmann Vice President Program (2015) AIB INSIGHTS Western Europe Chapter Ram Mudambi Canada Chapter Editors Howard Lin José Pla-Barber Romie F . Littrell Vice President Program-Elect (2016) Midwest USA Chapter Charles Dhanaraj China Chapter Daniel Rottig Changqi Wu Man Zhang Vice President Program-Past (2014) EXECUTIVE India Chapter Northeast USA Chapter Klaus Meyer SECRETARIAT S . Raghunath Mohammad Niamat Elahee Vice President of Administration Tunga Kiyak Southeast USA Chapter Elizabeth Rose Japan Chapter Managing Director Kazuhiro Asakawa Matthew Mitchell Jeremy Clegg Irem Kiyak Sumit Kundu Korea Chapter Sub-Saharan Africa Treasurer Jaeyong Song Abel Kinoti Executive Director Kathy Kiessling G . Tomas M . Hult Latin America Chapter Western USA Chapter Member Services Coordinator William Newburry Gary Knight 2 AIB Newsletter Third Quarter 2014 Nominations Sought for Election of Officers to the Academy of International Business Executive Board for 2015-2018 he AIB Executive Board operates on a ing the pre-meeting activities for the 2016 Trolling basis, with new members elected Conference, VP Program for 2016-2017 and annually to fill open positions. The Nomina- responsible for putting the 2017 conference tions Committee, composed of the three program together, and as VP Program-Past for immediate Past Presidents of the Academy, is 2017-2018. hereby soliciting nominations for the follow- ing positions and will present a slate to the membership for election later this Fall. Vice President Administration: a. President-Elect Two candidates will be nominated. The elect- b. Vice President Program-Elect ed person will serve a three year term and c. Vice President Administration will be one of three individuals serving as VP Administration on the Board. The VPs Admin- istration have oversight responsibility for President-Elect: finances, membership and chapter relations. One candidate will be nominated from among The AIB President determines the type and those previously elected Vice-President for sequencing of the responsibilities between the either Program or Administration. The elect- multiple officers serving this position. ed person will serve a three year term: as Nominations (including self-nominations) President-Elect for 2015-2016, President for for any of these positions should be sent to 2016-2017 and as Immediate Past President for the Secretariat at [email protected], by no later 2017-2018. The AIB President presides at all than October 31, 2014. meetings of the Academy and of the Executive Board, appoints and instructs all committees Please note that AIB has a published policy and is responsible for the strategic direction of regarding election campaigning. The policy the Academy and for supervising the functions can be read at http://aib.msu.edu/aboutcam- of the other officers and of the Executive paigning.asp Director. Vice President Program-Elect: Nominating Committee: Two candidates will be nominated to serve Yves Doz (chair) a three year term: as VP Program-Elect for Mary Ann Von Glinow 2015-2016 and be responsible for organiz- Robert Grosse AIB Newsletter Third Quarter 2014 3 AIB 2015 Bangalore Call for Papers Theme: Global Networks: Organizations and People Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 15th, 2015 nternational business scholars know that the world perceived by many lay observers. Iis not flat. Ghemawat and other IB scholars have Connectivity is operationalized in global networks made this case in demolishing the superficial, journal- through “pipelines” created and maintained by istic work of Thomas Friedman. So what underlies organizations like MNEs and through personal the powerful perception of flatness among educated relationships that often arise within far-flung Diaspo- laymen? The answer lies in the fact that the world is ras. The three megatrends enabled by this connectiv- increasingly connected. This global connectivity has ity raise fundamental research questions about the exploded in scale and scope over the last decade.