EIBA 2024 Awards

The submissions for EIBA 2024 were of outstanding quality. Below is a list of the award-winning papers presented at the EIBA 50th Anniversary Conference! 

AWARDS PRESENTED AT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

BEST PAPER AWARDS

1. Conference Theme: “That’s Interesting! Rethinking IB Research for the Next 50 Years”

• Paper: Why Do We Resist EDI? Rethinking EDI from an Evolutionary Psychology Perspective
• Authors: Hanna Gajewska-De Mattos (University of Leeds), Riikka Harikkala-Laihinen (University of Turku), Jeremy Clegg (University of Leeds)

2. International Entrepreneurship and Internationalization Processes

• Paper: Dynamic Capabilities and Digital Transformation in Chinese International SMEs: Agility and Crisis Management Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Authors: Jiao Li (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) , Alex Rialp-Criado (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Maria Teresa Bolivar Ramos (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

3. Managing the MNC

• Paper: Growing Beyond the Home-Region: Regional Heads in the Top Management Team as a Driver of Inter-Regional Growth in MNEs
• Authors: Sheryl Tang (University of St. Gallen), Dimitrios Georgakakis (University of Leeds), Winfried Ruigrok (University of St. Gallen)

4. Global Strategy and Global Value Chains

• Paper: The Impacts of Circular Economy Policies on Global Value Chains: A Study of the French Textile Industry
• Authors: Louise Curran (TBS), Thibaut Joltreau (TBS), Christian Gnekpe (TBS)

5. International Marketing

• Paper: Institutional Distances and E-Commerce Firms’ Standardization of Online Offers and Services
• Authors: Adrian Schütz (Trier University), Bernhard Swoboda (Trier University)

6. International Finance, Accounting, and Corporate Governance

• Paper: Rethinking International Financial Management Practices: Towards a Sufficiency Doctrine
• Author: Matthias Holmstedt (Mälardalens universitet)

7. International HRM, Cross-Cultural Issues, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

• Paper: Global Multi-Teaming – A Multi-Method Study of an Emerging Team Context in Multinational Corporations
• Authors: Niina Nurmi (Aalto University), Tuuli Hakkarainen (University of Liverpool Management School), Kristiina Mäkelä (Aalto University), Emma Nordbäck (Hanken School of Economics)

8. Digitalization, Innovation, and Technology

• Paper: Avoid Putting Knowledge at Stake: Selective Sino-Foreign R&D Linkages of MNEs
• Authors: Yuxuan Zhao (Tsinghua University), Zhenzhen Xie (Sun Yat-sen University), Peter Ping Li (Copenhagen Business School)

9. Institutions, Policy, and Global Politics

• Paper: Exporting, Bribing, and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Less Developed Economies
• Authors: Eliane Choquette (Aarhus University), Marcus M. Larsen (Copenhagen Business School)

10. Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility

• Paper: When Does Foreign Technology Help Firms from Periphery Countries Reduce Their Environmental Impact? An Ability-Motivation-Opportunity Framework
• Author: Guus Hendriks (University of Amsterdam)

11. Emerging Markets

• Paper: Digital Technologies and Internationalization of Emerging Markets Firms: The Role of Mobile Money as a Mediator of Institutional Voids in Sub-Saharan African Countries
• Authors: Filip De Beule (University of Leuven), Stefano Elia (Politecnico di Milano)

12. Teaching and Education in IB

• Paper: The Paradoxes of Artificial Intelligence in Management Education: What We Learn from Providing Human and AI Feedback to Student Global Virtual Teams
• Authors: Ernesto Tavoletti (University of Macerata), Robert Stephens (Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania), Longzhu Dong (University of Wisconsin Eau Claire), Vasyl Taras (University of North Carolina Greensboro)

13. Research Methods and Theorizing in IB

• Paper: Conducting Experiments with Serious Games in International Business and Management Research
• Authors: Anne Bartel-Radic (Université Grenoble Alpes), Danielle A. Taylor (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

BEST REVIEWER

Asmund Rygh(University of Manchester)

GSJ GLOBAL STRATEGY JOURNAL – BEST PAPER OF THE YEAR

Strategic Forbearance and Corporate Political Activity: The Case of Guinness and Regulatory Change

Aleksi Niittymies (Aalto University), Kalle Pajunen, (Tampere University), Edwald Kibler (Aalto University)

THE CBS PRIZE

Follow Me Home: Disentangling Differential Investor Reactions to Cross-Border Headquarters’ Relocations

Jan Schmitt (University of Amsterdam) & Martijn Boermans (De Nederlandsche Bank)