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AIB NEWSLETTER / FOURTH QUARTER 2000 ü 1

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Presidential Address 1, 6-11Phoenix Highlights 1, 12-16Board Notes 2-3Member Updates 4-5New Members 11Announcements 17Chapters 18Advertisements 19-21Newsletter Info 21Membership Forms 22-24

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AIB NewsletterRecord 700Attendance inPhoenix

The State of the AIB:2000 Presidential Address


Spectacular sights, informational ses-sions and overwhelming responsemade the Academy of International

Business’ 2000 Annual Meeting one of themost successful ever. Seven hundred partici-pants traveled to the city of Phoenix, Ari-zona to partake in the activities at our luxu-rious southwestern resort location.

The Tapatio Cliffs Pointe Hilton Resortprovided the perfect conference venue with its spacious meeting roomsand unique location. Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of In-ternational Management, graciously served as the host school for this meet-

José de la Torre, The Anderson School at UCLANovember 20, 2000, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

It was customary from time to time for the Presi-dent of your association to give an account ofthe state of affairs of the AIB and to point out

some critical challenges that loom in the horizon.In 1986, John Fayerweather, one of the founders ofthe Academy and its first President, and a leading international businessscholar in his time, published a history of the first 25 years of the associa-tion. Starting from its founding by a group of 19 enthusiasts who met inNew York City in November 1958, Fayerweather’s essay discusses a sub-

Eagle dancer entertainingthe AIB members at theHeard Museum Gala

José de la TorreAIB President

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EXECUTIVE BOARD

PresidentJosé de la TorreThe Anderson School at UCLA

Immediate Past PresidentJeffrey S. ArpanUniversity of South Carolina

Vice President -1999 ProgramStefanie A. LenwayUniversity of Minnesota

Vice President - 2000 ProgramS. Tamer CavusgilMichigan State University

Vice President - AdministrationDong-Sung ChoSeoul National University

Executive SecretaryJames R. Wills, Jr.University of Hawai‘i at Ma¯noa

AIB CHAPTERS-South Africa Chapter-

Cyril V. Francis, ChairUniversity of Pretoria

-Japan Chapter-Masataka Ota, ChairWaseda University

-Korea Chapter-Dong-Kee Rhee, ChairSeoul National University

-Pacific Basin Chapter-Aspy Palia, ChairUniversity of Hawai‘i at Ma¯noa

-Southeast Asia Chapter-Oliver H.M. Yau, ChairCity University of Hong Kong

-Western Europe Chapter-Daniel Van Den Bulcke, ChairUniversity of Antwerp

-United Kingdom Chapter-James H. Taggart, ChairUniversity of Glasgow

-Canada Chapter-Terri R. Lituchy, ChairConcordia University

-Midwest USA Chapter-Stewart Miller, ChairMichigan State University

-Northeast USA Chapter-Rajib Sanyal, ChairThe College of New Jersey

-Southeast USA Chapter-Robert D. Goddard, III, ChairAppalachian State University

-Southwest USA Chapter-Syed Tariq AnwarWest Texas A&M University

-Western USA Chapter-“Ram” Sundaresan Ram, ChairThunderbird

-Chile Chapter-Carlos Fuentes, ChairUniversidad Gabriela Mistral

JOURNAL OFINTERNATIONALBUSINESS STUDIESThomas L. Brewer, EditorGeorgetown UniversityCatherine Langlois, Deputy EditorGeorgetown University

B O A R D N O T E S

The AIB is seeking proposals from schools in North America wishing tohost the 2003 AIB Annual meeting. The host school, in consultation with theExecutive Secretariat, must identify the meeting venue, handle the logisticswith the hotel, plan site visits to locations of interest in the area (e.g. factorytours), and provide on-site staff support during the conference. The hostschool, which is critical to the success of the AIB Annual Meeting, tradition-ally sponsors an evening dinner or a similar gala event which showcasesthe institution and local culture. In the past, host schools have arrangedgovernment and/or corporate sponsors that have also hosted a dinner, lun-cheon, or reception. These occasions have been used to give a briefing ofthe investment opportunities and the economic climate in the area or tohave a senior corporate officer give a brief speech.

The elected AIB Vice President - 2003 Program will be responsible forthe conference program. This involves selecting the conference theme andmanaging the research paper solicitation, selection, and program organiza-tion. This activity is done in close cooperation with the AIB Secretariat andthe host university.

A host school representative should attend the prior conference as wellas the AIB board meeting that occurs just before the conference for face-to-face planning. The spring AIB board meeting often takes place at the con-ference location, providing an opportunity to go over the final details of thefall conference. It would be very useful for one or two staff members to go tothe 2002 meeting to help with the conference in order to learn how an AIBmeeting is run.

There are two cost items that the host school will be expected to fund:the cost of one gala event sponsored by the host school and the costs forsupport staff. Regarding support staff, a person at the host school is as-signed primary responsibility for host school activities. This person shouldhave a part-time graduate assistant or administrative assistant to work onthe conference beginning at least six months prior to the start date. Duringthe conference, the host school must provide staff for check-in and on-siteregistration as well as AIB office coverage. (During the peak registrationperiod, up to ten staff members will be required.) The host school staff willwork in close coordination with the AIB Secretariat. Depending on the lo-cale, additional staff may be required for the airport, buses, etc.Send your proposal to:

CALL FOR PROPOSALSCALL FOR PROPOSALSCALL FOR PROPOSALSCALL FOR PROPOSALSCALL FOR PROPOSALS2003 Annual Meeting

Host School

James R. Wills, Executive SecretaryAcademy of International Business2404 Maile Way, CBA C-306University of Hawai‘i-ManoaHonolulu, Hawai‘i 96822-2223U.S.A.

Or e-mail [email protected] if you have any questions. Include an en-dorsement signed by your Dean or another VP with budget authority, indicat-ing the institution’s financial support for the above cost items.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALSCALL FOR PROPOSALSCALL FOR PROPOSALSCALL FOR PROPOSALSCALL FOR PROPOSALSTO HEAD THE TO HEAD THE TO HEAD THE TO HEAD THE TO HEAD THE JIBSJIBSJIBSJIBSJIBS EDITORIAL TEAM EDITORIAL TEAM EDITORIAL TEAM EDITORIAL TEAM EDITORIAL TEAM

The proposal should include a complete resume ofthe leading scholar who would serve as Editor-in-Chief,as well as for those who would occupy key positionsas Deputy, Associate or Co-Editors. We anticipate thatthe team would require some release time from theirrespective universities for the key members of theeditorial team, the services of a full-time administrativeassistant, some physical facilities and equipment, anda budget for travel and communications. The financialarrangements necessary to meet these costs shouldconstitute one element of the proposal. The Editor-in-Chief’s university will be acknowledged in the Journalfor the duration of the agreement.

We would like to receive proposals by March 31,2001. A final set of candidates will be asked to presenttheir proposals at the Executive Board’s 2001 springmeeting. A transition period beginning in fall 2001 willbe arranged between the new and current editorialteams, with full responsibility for all issues, projectsand on-going manuscripts to be transferred to the newteam in its entirety by June 30, 2002.

Please submit your proposals to the AIBSecretariat by March 31, 2001 to:

James R. Wills, Jr.Executive SecretaryAcademy of International BusinessUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa - CBA, C-3062404 Maile WayHonolulu, HI 96822 USA

Or by electronic mail to [email protected]

The AIB Executive Board is seeking proposals fora new editorial team for the Journal of InternationalBusiness Studies that will become fully effective onJune 30, 2002. This will mark the end of a 6-monthtransition period from the current editorial team headedby Tom Brewer and sponsored by the McDonoughSchool of Business at Georgetown University and theCopenhagen Business School.

Contrary to past practice, the Executive Board hasdecided to split the editorial and businessresponsibilities of the Journal beginning on January1, 2002. We are currently investigating a number ofpublishing arrangements that include both in-housesolutions as well as a contract with a major academicpublishing house that will handle all production,subscription, mailing, and distribution matters. Thesefunctions, previously included in the contractualagreements with the editorial team, will now behandled under the direct supervision of the AIBSecretariat and its Executive Secretary, overseen bythe AIB’s Executive Board.

The new editorial team will consist of an Editor-in-Chief and a number of associates whose exact numberand responsibilities should be outlined in the proposal.The Executive Board is asking for a three-yearcommitment from the new team, renewable for a 3-year period by mutual agreement. The editorial teamwould have complete editorial responsibility for thecontent and organization of the Journal, would managethe manuscript review and selection process, andwould decide on the organization of Special Issues orSymposia. The Editor-in-Chief reports directly to theExecutive Board and is expected to attend both annualmeetings of the Board.

The AIB Fellows are asking for nominations forthe “International Dean of the Year” award for2001. The nomination should be limited to a c.v.and three pages of information about thecandidate which details the reasons why he orshe is deserving of this honor.

Nominations should be submitted by April 15,2001 to Peter Buckley, chair of the searchcommittee.

2001 DEAN OF THE YEAR

Please send nominations to the following address:

Peter J. BuckleyLeeds Business SchoolUniversity of LeedsMaurice Keyworth BuildingLeeds, West YorksLS2 9JT UKE-mail: [email protected]


RMemberson the Move

JUST OFF T H E P R E S S ¨̈

M E M B E R U P D A T E S

FRANCIS L. BARTELS recently published InternationalBusiness: A Competitiveness Approach (Prentice Hall,ISBN 0-13-032146-X, 308 pages) with Chris L. Pass.

LINDA BEAMER (Department of Marketing, CaliforniaState University, Los Angeles) and IRIS VARNER (Pro-fessor of Management, Illinois State University) havejust published the second edition of their book, Inter-cultural Communication in the Global Workplace(McGraw-Hill/Irwin, ISBN: 0-07239690-3). This newpaperback edition gives readers a theoretical approachfor understanding how businesses communicate inter-nationally and in multicultural domestic environments.New mini-cases have been added at the beginning ofeach chapter, and the impact of technology is a themethroughout the book. The style is highly engaging,peppered with personal anecdotes as well as storiesfrom other boundary-crossers. Valuable resource forinternational marketing, management and negotiation.To order, visit McGraw-Hill Business Publications atwww.mhhe.com.

THOMAS L. BREWER (Georgetown University) andSTEVEN YOUNG (University of Strathclyde) announcethe revised and updated paperback edition of theirbook, The Multilateral Investment System and Multi-national Enterprises (Oxford University Press, ISBN0-19-924110). The volume analyzes the internationalpublic policy framework for FDI - from the ill-fatedITO to the WTO. The final chapter assesses the break-down of the MAI and ‘The battle of Seattle’, and specu-lates on a new era for investment agreements. To or-der, visit the publisher ’s web site at http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-924110-4#contents.

JAMES C. LEONTIADES announces his book, Managingthe Global Enterprise: Competing in the InformationAge (Financial Times/Prentice Hall, due out in Jan.2001). This is one of the very few books devoted tothe phenomenon of globalization as it relates to man-agement and the global company. The unique featureof the book is its focus on rivalry and the notion thatadvances in IT have transformed traditional interna-tional competition into quite a different form of com-petitive behaviour, global rivalry, which is the hall-mark of the global enterprise.

FRANCIS L. BARTELS has taken a position as SeniorLecturer at the School of Business at James Cook Uni-versity in Queensland, Australia, starting from Novem-ber 8, 2000.

SAMIR R CHATTERJEE of Curtin University, Australiawill be a visiting Professor of International Manage-ment at the Ecole de Management Lyon in France andK.S. Graduate Business School St. Gallen in Switzer-land from January to February 2001. He will join otherfaculty members in teaching post-graduate programsand executive education courses.

JANET Y. MURRAY is an associate professor of market-ing at City University of Hong Kong. She can be con-tacted at: [email protected].

SHAHROKH M. SAUDAGARAN has moved to OklahomaState University as Head of the School of Accountingand Arthur Andersen Alumni Centennial Professor ofAccounting. Shahrokh was previously Director of theInternational Business Studies Institute at Santa ClaraUniversity. He also serves as Secretary General of theAsian Academic Accounting Association (4A) and wasa keynote speaker at its inaugural conference inSingapore in August 2000. Professor Saudagaran canbe contacted at [email protected].

SULLY TAYLOR of Portland State University has becomethe Director of the International Management programof the School of Business Administration.

JEAN-CLAUDE USUNIER has taken up a new position asprofessor of international marketing at the Universityof Lausanne (HEC, Graduate School of Commerce)from September 1, 2000. The position encompassesteaching and research in marketing, business negotia-tions, and sales management, as both domestic andglobal topics. Jean-Claude plans to continue his workon the cultural aspects of global marketing in the niceinternational setting provided by the north shore of thelake of Geneva. His new address is: Jean-ClaudeUsunier, HEC, University of Lausanne, Bfsh 1, CH-1015 Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland.

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for this book are graduate students, upper-division un-dergraduate students, and participants in corporate uni-versity and executive training courses. As indicatedin its title, the book takes a user perspective (as op-posed to a preparer perspective) to international ac-counting. The goal is to place the book somewherebetween Advanced Accounting texts that have verylittle coverage of international accounting issues andtraditional International Accounting texts that are toolong and expensive for most undergraduate, graduateand executive programs. Visit the Web site at http://www.swcollege.com for content and ordering infor-mation.

ROSALIE L. TUNG of Simon Fraser University an-nounces that her IEBM Handbook of InternationalBusiness (London: Thomson Learning, 1999) is nowavailable in paperback. The book is 992 pages andcosts $45. For more information, please visit http://www.thomsonlearning.com.

AMIN YAN (Boston University) and YADONG LUO (Uni-versity of Miami) announce International Joint Ven-tures: Theory and Practice (M.E. Sharpe, ISBN: 0-7656-0474-4). The book has several features: First,both authors have been major players in the main-stream research on international joint ventures. Thebook crystalizes their decade-long theoretical and em-pirical work and their consulting experience. Second,the book integrates multiple perspectives. Theoreti-cally, it draws heavily on theories of organization, stra-tegic management, and economics. The book takes abalanced approach to understanding joint ventures byaccounting for both the foreign and the local partner’sinterests and perspectives, as well as interactions be-tween them. Third, the book adopts a holistic view byexamining the entire process of IJV development, frompartner and ownership structure selection to the de-sign of managerial control systems and venture per-formance assessment and to the dynamic evolution ofIJVs and exit strategies. Fourth, the book balancesbetween academic and practitioner interests by pro-viding both scholarly theoretical analyses and empiri-cal work and in-depth descriptions of many real-worldpartnerships, as case studies and examples. Finally,the empirical basis and many examples used in thebook were drawn from IJVs in Asia, particularly inChina, to take advantage of the deep expertise of bothauthors.

CARL A. NELSON announces his book, Import/Export:How to Get Started in International Trade, Third Edi-tion. This expanded and updated third edition showshow to tap into the e-commerce phenomenon, includ-ing a complete overview of this new global marketopportunity, how to set up a successful home page,and tips to filling orders and getting paid over theInternet. New material also covers the Euro and WorldTrade Organization, NAFTA, tricks of using Lettersof Credit, new product standards, and how to navigatethe business worlds of China and Africa. Plus, you’llfind Dr. Nelson’s 20 acclaimed and globally tested keysto international business success. To order, please callThe McGraw-Hill Companies at 1-800-2MCGRAW,fax: 1-614-755-5645, [email protected], or visit www.books.mcgraw-hill.com.

ASEEM PRAKASH , The George Washington University,announces his co-edited volume, Responding to Glo-balization (Routledge, ISBN 0-415-22865-4). This isthe third of the three volumes co-edited by him (andJeffrey A. Hart) on the subject. Responding to Global-ization examines how different countries/regions haveresponded to the challenges of increasing levels of glo-bal economic integration. It focuses on the followingcountries and regions: Australia, Japan, South Korea,China, Russia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Latin America,and Western Europe. Unlike many other works exam-ining responses to globalization, Responding to Glo-balization advocates neither resisting it nor embrac-ing it. At least in the short-run, globalization is notpareto superior: there are “winners” and “losers.” Afocus on the strategies adopted by actors to influencethe distribution of costs and benefits is crucial to un-derstand the political economy of globalization. Thisvolume, therefore, examines how globalization impactsa given actor’s set of opportunities and threats, whyactors choose specific strategies, what political, ide-ational, and economic factors are behind these choices,and how the historical and the institutional contextsimpact these decisions. To order, call 1-800-634-7064or fax 1-800-248-4724.

SHAHROKH M. SAUDAGARAN , head of the School of Ac-counting and Arthur Andersen Alumni Centennial Pro-fessor at Oklahoma State University has published In-ternational Accounting: A User Perspective (South-Western College Publishing/Thomson Learning, ISBN0-324-01583-6, 228 Pages). The primary audiences

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sequent period of growth and insti-tution building that culminatedwith the complex and multifacetedorganization that we know today.1

Two years later, John Dunning, ar-guably the most influential scholarin the middle years of our history,delivered a presidential address inOctober 1988 at the San Diego meet-ings of the AIB on the future of IBresearch.2 Since then, alas, thehustle and bustle typical of our an-nual meetings has not allowed formuch reflection on long-term issuesof this nature.

Today, I want to return to thistradition, although I certainly lay noclaim to the lofty pulpit of my twopredecessors. We are not yet at our50th anniversary, nor do I considermyself qualified to chart our intel-lectual territory for the years aheadwith the prescience and acumenthat John Dunning showed in thatoccasion. But perhaps there aresome good reasons for us to take acritical, introspective look at our as-sociation today: (1) we are at thedoorstep of the next millennium,which always invites self-reflection;(2) we are experiencing dramaticchange in terms of our principalsubject matter (the multinationalcorporation), our customers (bothstudents and faculty colleagues),our environment (the advent of theInternet Age), and our competitors(other professional associations);and (3) we have no Executive of theYear speech, and thus a hole in theagenda. So I ask for your indul-gence as I review some of our re-cent accomplishments, discusssome critical challenges we face,and suggest some directions and

priorities for our Academy as wemove forward.

Our Annual MeetingIf John Fayerweather were here

with us today he would be aston-ished at the breadth, scope anddepth of this gathering. TheAcademy’s first annual meeting in1960 consisted of one session andtwo papers. The meeting held in1983, to coincide with the 25th anni-versary of the AIB’s founding, hadgrown to 37 sessions and 110 pa-pers. This meeting in Phoenix isevidence of the continued growthand interest in our field. It included82 different sessions with 222 pa-pers, plus 3 vibrant poster sessionsand 23 panel discussions with morethan 100 participants. The programcommittee received 387 paper sub-missions, with 44% of them comingfrom outside North America.Nearly 700 scholars attended themeeting, with 34% traveling fromEurope, Asia and other regions be-sides North America. No onepresent can say that he or she is re-turning home without a richer un-derstanding of our field and an ex-panded view of its intricacies andchallenges.

Our annual meeting is indeed amajor crossroads of intellectualthought; a vibrant market for ideasand insights into the issues that facethe modern global corporation andits many constituencies. It is also alively social agora where newfriendships are nurtured or devel-oped, and where plans come to-gether for joint research work or thesharing of pedagogical conceptsand materials. This annual meet-ing, I submit to you, is one of the

1 This history was published by the University of South Carolina as one of its Essays in International Business (No. 6, November1986) under the title of “A History of the Academy of International Business from Infancy to Maturity: The First 25 Years.”2 This address was later published as “The Study of International Business: A Plea for a More Interdisciplinary Approach,” Journal ofInternational Business Studies, Vol 20:3 (1989), pp. 411-36.

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This does not mean, however,that we should rest on our laurels.Other academic groups are holdingannual meetings that increasinglyoffer an attractive alternative to in-ternationally minded faculty andresearchers. The annual meetingsfor the IM division of the Academyof Management or the StrategicManagement Society have drawnmany of our members with greaterand wider coverage of internationaland global issues at their sessions.Equally, all major functional societ-ies are increasing the attention theyaccord to international issues attheir own meetings, providing astrong incentive to marketing or fi-nance professors doing interna-tional work to prefer those venuesto ours.

In a way, we may argue that thisis evidence of our success; that thecriticality of international studies isnow accepted dogma throughoutacademia. As such, the “mission-ary” goals of the AIB as stipulatedby the founders in 1958 are consid-erably less important today. Thus,we must evolve in our objectivesand make sure that the focus of ourmeetings deals with the sort of is-sues that other disciplines and aca-demic organizations are less ca-pable of covering in breadth anddepth. The success of our recentmeetings in this regard should en-courage us to accept this challengeand continue to make each annualmeeting a cauldron of intellectualdebate on a fundamental issue ofthe day amenable to multiple dis-ciplinary approaches.


José de la Torre giving thepresidential address at the AwardsLuncheon in Phoenix

DEAR COLLEAGUESOur JournalJIBS has also grown remarkably

in the past two decades and is to-day the undisputed leading journalfor scholars publishing in the inter-national business field. Begun in1970 under the editorship of the lateBill Ogram at Georgia State Univer-sity, it started publishing two issuesa year with less than 300 copiesprinted. Submissions averagedabout 50 per year in the early pe-riod, and the acceptance rate wasnearly 60%. By 1984, circulationwas up to 2,100, submissions hadrisen to 200 annually, and the manu-script acceptance rate dropped to20%. Today, the Journal’s circula-tion exceeds 4,100, we are process-ing about 280 manuscripts yearly,and the acceptance rate is just over11%. Citation rates have also risendramatically and the Journal rankshighly, if not at the top, of most rat-ings of academic publications in thebusiness and management fields.

But here too, competition hasgrown dramatically. Today, mosttop-tier functional journals – suchas the Strategic Management Review,the Academy of Management Journaland Review, Organization Science, theJournals of Marketing and MarketingResearch, the Journal of Finance, Ad-ministrative Science Quarterly, Man-agement Science, Marketing Science,etc., as well as a myriad of economicjournals – are devoting an increas-ing number of pages to articles deal-ing with international issues thatjust a few years ago would not havefound much support among theireditorial boards. Simultaneously,specialized journals such as theUN’s Journal of Transnational Corpo-rations, Management International Re-view, and the Journal of InternationalManagement are crowding the fieldand gaining respectability with in-novative and rigorous approachesto our field.

How to succeed in this increas-ingly popular and contested spaceis a critical consideration for bothJIBS and the AIB. Two actions re-cently undertaken by the JIBS edi-torial team anticipate one set of re-sponses. First, we need to attractmore and better papers and oneway to do so is to provide the bestservice possible to prospective au-thors. After months of hard workin revamping editorial proceduresand introducing electronic submis-sions and review processes, the edi-tors have succeeded in insuring that57% of all manuscripts are turnedaround in less than two months,and 91% in less than three months.Now this is clearly not good enoughand we can do better, but it is a farcry from previous experience wheremanuscripts languished in the sys-tem for months. And the entire edi-torial team and board are commit-ted to a goal of returning over 90%of all reviews to the authors withina 60-day period. We also need todistinguish ourselves in terms ofthe feedback and direction we pro-vide our submitters so that theymay improve their manuscripts tothe highest standards. The additionof many younger scholars to oureditorial board and the applicationof stringent criteria to remain on theboard are two policies aimed atachieving this result. Accession tothe JIBS Editorial Board should bea mark of distinction and honor thatmust be earned and sustained.

A second approach is to encour-age authors to tackle controversialand state-of-the-art issues by theuse of Symposia and Special Issues.The adoption of Symposia over thepast three years has been well re-ceived by our constituents, andachieved without any sacrifice ofquality or space. In fact, your Ex-ecutive Board is encouraged by thisdevelopment and is studying thepossibility of adding a fifth annual

number to the Journal to deal ex-clusively with special themes andissues.

In summary, JIBS has made greatstrides in its 30-year history, but itmust go further if it is to take itsrightful place among the top tier ofA-journals in the business field. Weshould make this a major priorityfor the Academy and reflect it in theCall for a New Editorial Team thatyou will find elsewhere in thisNewsletter.

The AIB ListservA relatively new product of our

association is the creation of the AIBListserv by which our members cancommunicate with one another ona myriad of research or pedagogi-cal issues. Serving now more than1,500 subscribers, its success hasbeen extraordinary. Research ques-tions and inquiries, discussions andsuggestions on pedagogical mate-rials, searches for research partnersand associates, and news aboutopenings and faculty positionshave dominated the electronic air-


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space. The speed and scope of re-sponse is amazing. And the emerg-ing etiquette of behavior seems tocall for sharing the fruits of inquir-ies with all, thus spreading learn-ing and deepening the value of thenetwork to all users.

A Challenge Ahead:The growth and

distribution of ourmembership

In spite of these major accom-plishments, not all is well with ourassociation. One troubling sign isthe apparent peak in our member-ship in recent years. The graph be-low shows the development of ourmembership since 1958 in five-yearintervals3. As you can see, thegrowth that characterized our soci-ety for its first 40 years has reversedwithin the last five.4 Is this a trendor a temporary shift in the series? Iwill first review some of the pos-sible causes for this developmentand then suggest some action pro-posals.

Three explanations come tomind. One is that we have reachedsaturation in our main markets inNorth America and Europe, havingcovered all potential IB faculties inthe business schools in these areas.Another is that we are sufferingfrom normal attrition produced bythe growth of the international pro-gramming of other groups such asthe Academy of Management, theStrategic Management Society, theAmerican or European MarketingAssociations, TIMS, etc. Finally, wecould argue that the relevant spacefor IB issues and specialization hasshrunk as a result of globalizationand the spread of e-commerce.

Clearly, our responses must be cali-brated to the importance we mayattach to these various explana-tions.

Some support for the saturationhypothesis can be gleaned from thedata in Table 1 below. Our NorthAmerican membership hasdropped by nearly 5% in absoluteterms over the decade, most of it inthe last five years. While the weightof our North American members inthe association has dropped from74% to 61% (good news for thoseof us who wish to see a more bal-anced global membership), we can-not afford to do this by the loss ofmembers. To reverse this trend willrequire better services and recruit-ing. Given that North America con-tinues to be the main world pro-ducer of business PhDs, a bigger ef-fort must be made to attract doc-toral students to our association

while in the latter stages of theirprograms.

Europe is the bright spot in themembership story, having in-creased by nearly 200% in the de-cade, representing now a full 20%of our membership. The success ofthe Vienna meeting had somethingto do with this, but most of the in-crease was already in evidence inthe first half of the decade. Thegrowth of MBA programs in Eu-rope and the natural affinity of Eu-ropean scholars for IB issues hasobviously played a role in this.Asia, on the other hand, is a sourceof major disappointment for us. Inspite of the successful Seoul meet-ing in 1995, regional membershiphas dropped by 5%, accountingnow for only 12% of the total. In-creases in Korea, Taiwan and HongKong were more than offset bylosses in Southeast Asia. We have

3 The 2000 figure is from the end of October and does not include new memberships from November and December 2000.4 This is still a very respectable performance, averaging about 7.4% growth per year from 1970 to 2000. For comparison, the Acad-emy of Management reported total growth of membership from 1,436 to 11,000, or 7.0% annually, for the same period.

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not succeeded in capturing therapid increase in international busi-ness interest in the region, so ourloss of members is even more severewhen taking this into consideration.

As for the rest of the world, Aus-tralia and New Zealand haveshown rapid increases in member-ship, up from 2% to 5% of the totalby 2000. Our annual meeting inSydney next year will consolidatethese gains, and perhaps pull newmembers from S.E. Asia. Member-ship in Latin America, Africa andthe Middle East continues to showsigns of weakness, representingbarely 2% of our total.

If I were to single out some ma-jor challenges emerging from thesedata they would be two: (1) arrest-ing, and perhaps reversing, the lossof members in North America; and

(2) making a serious effort to in-crease membership from the mostpromising emerging markets in theworld – China, India, SouthAmerica and Eastern Europe. To-gether, the last four represent aminiscule 2.4% of our membership,whereas they account for 14% ofworld GDP and 58% of worldpopulation.

As for the competition fromfunctional societies, the truth isthat we can take pride in the factthat IB issues have now permeatedtheir agendas, meetings and jour-nals.5 And their growth, just as theincreased popularity of regionalassociations (e.g., EIBA, JIBA, KIBAand ANZIBA, to mention four ofthe most active), should be reasonfor optimism. Our response mustbe to increase the relevance of the

AIB to our current and potentialmembers to the point that theadded value from dual allegianceand membership justifies the $85annual fee and participation in ouractivities. For this, we must re-spond to the intellectual and pro-fessional development needs of ourconstituents through unique pro-grams and quality services.

Finally, it has been obvious forsome time that we must redefineour intellectual space beyond the“old” boundaries of functional si-los. We must go beyond the spentmodel of taking “domestic” scienceand adapting it to a diverse world.This requires a strong effort to iden-tify the issues where our memberscan make a difference; that are ame-nable to cross-disciplinary work;and which are of fundamental in-


Table 1AIB MEMBERSHIP by GEOGRAPHY, 1990-2000

Growth and Comparison to 1998 GDP and Population

5 As an example, the International Division of the Academy of Management counts 2,007 members as of the end of 2000. While datais not available, most of these are probably also members of the AIB.



terest to both multinational corporations and their ex-tended constituencies in government, labor, consum-ers and citizens. The “Janus Face of Globalization”theme from last year’s conference was one such hit inthis sense. Not only did it meet all the above criteria,but also it allowed us to tap into other disciplinary per-spectives to enrich our views on these complex and con-troversial issues.

A Proposed Set of ResponsesMy own conclusion to this analysis is that we must

move on all these fronts in order to impart new lifeinto our association. What are we doing? How do weget there? What else should we do? Let me offer a fewideas and initiatives for your consideration.

1. We must be more innovative and aggressive inattracting new members. We can do this by:

• Bringing our annual meetings to the heart of thesenew constituents. Your Board has decided to starta rotation schedule by which we will hold onemeeting in North America every second year, withthe intervening meeting in each of the majorcontinents or market areas of interest to our currentand potential members. Accordingly, a tentativeschedule for this decade will look as follows:

2001 Sydney2002 San Juan, Puerto Rico2003 North American city2004 Santiago, Chile2005 North American city2006 Central Europe2007 North American city2008 East or Southeast Asian city2009 North American city2010 Location to be determined

• Developing closer ties with regional associationsthat have similar goals. For example, part of the2001 meeting in Sydney will be coordinated withthe Australian and New Zealand InternationalBusiness Association (ANZIBA). Equally, we arecurrently in discussions with the BusinessAssociation for Latin American Studies (BALAS)to integrate the two annual meetings for 2004. Amajor effort will be made to reach similaragreements with other groups around the worldthat will be of mutual benefit to both sets ofmembers.

• Offering more electronic services that can link far-off members closer into the intellectual and

pedagogical network we represent.• Expanding our travel grant program beyond the

current level to include more Ph.D. students fromNorth America, Europe and Asia, junior faculty, andfaculty from under-represented regions. Weinitiated some of these grants this year, and withthe generous support of the Sheth Foundation, theAIB Fellows and other fundraising initiatives underway, we hope to offer up to 50 such grants annuallyin the future.

• Promote our “Adopt a Library” program to bringthe AIB scholarship to every corner of the globe.Currently only 27 members contribute the $35annual cost this implies, plus one generous memberwho funds 10 additional libraries. This represents1% of our membership. We must increase this byfive-fold at least.

2. We must fully adopt the electronic age in orderto increase the range and quality of services we offerour members and add value to their association withthe AIB. Among the initiatives underway or being con-sidered are:

• Expand the use of electronic submission and reviewfor all manuscripts. Over 70% of all submissionsto the Phoenix meeting were handled this way, andover 90% of JIBS submissions and reviews are nowhandled over the Internet. This will help acceleratereview processes and increase the attraction of thesevehicles for presentation or publication overcompeting alternatives.

• Promote “JIBS On-line.” Over 30 years of JIBSarticles are now in electronic pdf files thanks to thegenerous contribution of the Copenhagen BusinessSchool. All of these will soon be available to AIBmembers free of charge, together with book reviewsand, most importantly, articles accepted forpublication in JIBS but not yet published. Such asearchable database should be of considerable valueto members.

• With funding and help from a number of CIBERschools, we plan to create a search protocol anddatabase that will include IB working papers, cases,teaching materials, course syllabi, thesis abstracts,jobs postings, etc.

Thanks to the enormous efforts of Jim Wills and Lau-rel King at your Secretariat, and with the addition ofJohn Zhao from St. Louis University as our IT Advisor,we plan to continue innovating in these terms. Ofcourse, your inputs and contributions to this evolvingarea of technology and service will be essential andgreatly appreciated.




José de la TorreAIB President, 1999-2000

3. Increase communication with our members onissues of importance to them. Our Newsletter is nowon-line and we plan to increase the degree ofinteractivity to allow self postings of notices of researchand academic meetings, chat rooms on issues of inter-est, syllabi exchanges, and the like. In addition, underthe leadership of B.J. Punnett of the University of theWest Indies, we plan to introduce a new feature of theNewsletter tentatively called “AIB Notes” that will in-volve short articles and essays on issues ranging frompolitical and economic themes to pedagogy and orga-nization. B.J. will be putting together a small editorialboard to handle this responsibility and your interestand involvement are welcomed.

4. Expand the intellectual space of our focus by in-troducing an annual “Special Issue” of JIBS devoted totopics whose characteristics match those discussed ear-lier: impact, relevance and uniqueness of fit. We mayoccasional link this to the theme of the annual meet-ings, as it is being done now with the Janus Face theme,and thus provide an incentive for our best minds tofocus on these issues and build knowledge at the fron-tiers of our field. This can be achieved without sacri-ficing space for normal JIBS submissions and will en-hance the impact of our Journal and profession.

ConclusionsWe have certainly come a long way since that group

of 19 pioneers met to chart our association’s course over40 years ago. But we are also at a critical crossroads inour development that will require of all of us to con-tribute our energy and ideas to the tasks at hand. Forme, personally, the last two years have given me greatsatisfaction. I was honored to have been elected yourPresident; pleased to have had the opportunity to workwith such extraordinary people in our Board and Sec-retariat; and satisfied by the modest progress we havemade.

We are extremely fortunate in having a superb teamto follow. They will need our support, our initiativesand our critical comments. Thank you again for theopportunity to serve our cause. Have a safe journeyhome and see you all in Sydney next year.

New AIB MembersMembers joining from September 6, 2000 to December 18, 2000

Filip De BeuleRaul de GouveaMark De RondJulie A. DeCourcyAtila DicleUlku DicleMark D. DomneyMark Easterby-SmithLucy M. El SherifSaul EstrinGeorg FassottManuel P. FerreiraDail FieldsMichael FishThomas M. FitzpatuickBela ForgoJoel FostanoCarlos F. Franco Jr.Suad GhaddarMichael Gold-BissHamish R. GowKarol J. GrimesAlejandro GrisantiAlicia Guajardo AlatorreCeylan GulNam Khanh Giao HaMohsin HabibChristopher H. HarrisonPaula HarvestonNiron HashaiWei HeArleen HernandezGeorge HoffmanJohn HoltZuohao HuMark JenkinsArpita JoardarSteven JohnstonRoberta Ann JonesCanan Jouan de KervenoaezRonan Jouan de KervenoaezJae Min JungOzgur KanSiv Marina KarlesenAhmet KircaMatthias R. KleinhempelRobert KohnLaura L. KozloskiEryn KriegerBalaji KrishnanTorsten KuehlmannDavid KuhlmeierNandini LahiriElvin LashbrookeBastian Lie-NielsenBrian LofmanGundula LueckeMatthew LynallScott A. MacLeodJ. Muir MacphersonTarek MadyBruce MagidAli MalekzadehJo Ann McCarthyAlan N. MillerPeter MollgaardAngeles Montoro

Neil A. MorganStephen MorganAdair MorseNiklas MyhrPatricia NelsonJoergen U.M. NielsenNancy NixEmmanuel NkwentiDaniel O’BrienMatthew O’BrienTom O’BrienKwadwo Ofori-BrobbeyMaria-Isabel Olalde-QuintanarSergio A. OlavarrietaGlenn OmuraNo-Ryon ParkPaul G. PattersonArve PettersenAdilla PongyeelaCui QiangMurli RajanPeter Redvers-LeeSabine ReimAna L. Rodriguez-GustaEliezer RomeuAnthony RoweBruce RunyanHadi SalavitabarRommel O. SalvadorJose Raul SanabriaJorge SantamariaKenneth SchneiderRoger SchweizerPer ServaisDaaim ShabazzKiren ShomanWendy A. SmithIlene Smith-BezjianRoland SparksRich A. SprengMary Beth StanekDavid StephenTrond StiklestadJanikan SupanvanijAdrian SzumskiJane L. Y. Terpstra TongWayne B. ThomasGerardo Torres-FriasRobert John TuckJodi Van Der HeydenPhilippe VeryNiti VillingerDeepak K. VyasKathleen WatsonPaula WeberMichael WeirKirk WesselCaroline S. WesterhofIan WilkinsonThomas D. WilliamsJaclyn A. WinshipWita WojtkowskiAbebe WorknehHiroyasu H.Y. YachiYanni YanHaiyan Zhang


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Haynes Prize for BestHaynes Prize for BestHaynes Prize for BestHaynes Prize for BestHaynes Prize for BestPaperPaperPaperPaperPaper

Farmer Dissertation AwardFarmer Dissertation AwardFarmer Dissertation AwardFarmer Dissertation AwardFarmer Dissertation Award

The International Dean of theYear Award was presented byselection committee ChairPeter Buckley to John Roseof the University ofMelbourne.

International DeanInternational DeanInternational DeanInternational DeanInternational Deanof the Yearof the Yearof the Yearof the Yearof the Year

Selection committeechair Jean-FrancoisHennart (left) ofTilburg Universitypresented Joan P.Mileski (right) ofHouston BaptistUniversity with theRichard N. FarmerDissertation Awardfor her dissertation entitled, “Strategic Group ofCountries: An Empirical Study of GovernmentPolicies Toward Foreign Direct Investment andtheir Convergence Over Time.”

The 2000 Haynes Prize for BestPaper Award went to Gary A.Knight (left), an assistantprofessor at Florida StateUniversity, for his paper entitled,“Market Orientation and theChannel in International Smalland Medium Firms: An EmpiricalStudy.” Presenting the award isTamer Cavusgil (right).

The Academy recognized Jagdish N.Sheth and the Madhuri & Jagdish N.Sheth Foundation for their continualsupport of the AIB. In 2000, the AIBreceived $5000 for Doctoral TravelStipends and $2500 for Adopt-a-Librarysubscriptions in grants from theFoundation. This support is greatlyappreciated by the doctoral students andlibraries that have benefitted from the giftseach year.

Recognition of Service AwardRecognition of Service AwardRecognition of Service AwardRecognition of Service AwardRecognition of Service Award

Benjamin Gomes-Casseres, BrandeisUniversity, won the 2000 JIBS Decade Awardwhich honored the most influential article from the1990 volume of JIBS for his article “FirmOwnership Preferences and Host GovernmentRestrictions: An Integrated Approach.”

JIBS Decade AwardJIBS Decade AwardJIBS Decade AwardJIBS Decade AwardJIBS Decade Award

The other finalists (pictured above from center toright) were Rachelle Sampson (University ofMichigan) of New York University, Paula D.Harveston (University of Memphis) of BerryCollege, and Donald L. Ferrin (University ofMinnesota) of State University of New York atBuffalo.

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ing. Local Co-Chairs Rob Grosseand Bert Valencia made sure thatthe various events went smoothly,while Marie Gant and her staff dida wonderful job managing the con-ference registration desk. DottieKobik organized the gala event andthe AIB hotel shuttle. We are grate-ful to Thunderbird for hosting thatwonderful event at the spectacularHeard Museum.

Program Chair S. TamerCavusgil and his staff at MichiganState University organized athoughtful and insightful programthat attracted a large attendance atthe meeting. The program began onFriday, November 17 with the Jun-ior Faculty and Doctoral consortia.About 29 doctoral students re-ceived $500 travel stipends from theAIB and the Sheth Foundation to at-tend the conference. The openingreception was held that evening.Roy Herberger, president ofThunderbird, greeted guests withthe AIB Executive Board wearinglocal straw hats.

Saturday, November 18 beganwith a stimulating plenary in whichAlfred D. Chandler, Jr. was recog-nized by the AIB Fellows as Emi-nent Scholar for his body of out-standing work and its impact on in-ternational business research. Dr.Chandler is Professor Emeritus atHarvard Business School is activelyengaged in scholarly pursuits. Dueto failing health, he was interviewedvia video for the session. The selec-tion committee, chaired by AlanRugman, considered him to be anideal selection. Many panels andworkshops on various interestingtopics were held throughout theday.

On Sunday, November 19, the Ri-chard N. Farmer DissertationAward Finalists presented their dis-sertation topics in a special session.Selection committee chair, Jean-Francois Hennart recognized themall at the awards luncheon the fol-lowing day. Finalists includedDonald Ferrin of State University ofNew York at Buffalo, Paula D.

Harveston of Berry College, andRachelle Sampson of New YorkUniversity. The ultimate winnerwas Joan P. Mileski of Houston Bap-tist University.

That evening, Thunderbirdhosted a wonderful gala event atthe Heard Museum. Conferenceparticipants and their guests en-joyed having the museum all tothemselves on this magical evening.Host school president RoyHerberger welcomed everyone andshared some interesting facts re-garding Arizona culture with thecrowd. All were treated to a grandevening highlighted by traditionalhoop dancing performances, a pri-vate museum showing of NativeAmerican culture, crafts and shop-ping at a lovely museum gift shop.The mouth-watering Southwesternmenu included corn muffins, chiliand shrimp tacos and was comple-mented by a hosted bar serving un-limited beer and wine.

The last day of the conference

Tamer Cavusgil

Danny Van Den Bulcke

José de la Torre & Steve Kobrin



José de la Torre & Jeff Arpan

the passing of the executive baton

Stefanie Lenway & Lorraine Eden


AIB 2000 Meeting

Registrants by Country

ARGENTINA 1 0.14%AUSTRALIA 29 4.15%AUSTRIA 4 0.57%BARBADOS 1 0.14%BELGIUM 10 1.43%BRAZIL 1 0.14%CANADA 31 4.43%CHILE 3 0.43%COLOMBIA 1 0.14%CYPRUS 1 0.14%DENMARK 9 1.29%EGYPT 1 0.14%EQUADOR 1 0.14%FIJI 1 0.14%FINLAND 3 0.43%FRANCE 5 0.72%GERMANY 9 1.29%HONG KONG, SAR-PRC 8 1.14%HUNGARY 2 0.29%INDIA 1 0.14%ISRAEL 4 0.57%JAPAN 6 0.86%MEXICO 7 1.00%NETHERLANDS 13 1.86%NEW ZEALAND 6 0.86%NORWAY 11 1.57%P.R. CHINA 3 0.43%REP OF KOREA 14 2.00%REP OF SINGAPORE 4 0.57%SPAIN 5 0.72%SWEDEN 10 1.43%SWITZERLAND 3 0.43%TAIWAN, R.O.C. 1 0.14%THAILAND 2 0.29%TURKEY 7 1.00%UNITED KINGDOM 28 4.01%URUGUAY 1 0.14%USA 451 64.52%WEST INDIES 1 0.14%

Total: 699 100%

The AIB was pleased to grant 10 Latin American Scholarships to allowindividuals from under-represented areas to attend the meeting in Phoe-nix. AIB President Jose de la Torre initialized the gesture. The schoolschose the nominees, who otherwise would have been unable to partici-pate in the conference. The AIB subsidized the cost of registration fees,one-year membership and a three-night hotel stay for each nomineel. Allof the nominees came from Central or South America.

Latin American Scholarship Awards

Doctoral Travel Stipend AwardsThe AIB awarded $500 travel stipends to 29 of the over 50 doctoralstudents who applied for stipends so that they could participate in our2000 conference. Ten of the stipends were funded by the Sheth Foundation,one by the AIB UK and Midwest USA Chapters, and 18 by the AIBFoundation. Stipend recipients are asked to volunteer 10 hours duringthe conference in return for receiving a stipend. The stipends are awardedannually.

Juan Alcacer, University of Michigan, USA

Leopoldo Arias-Bolzmann, Univ. Adolfo Ibanez, ChileAlejandro Grisanti, IESA, VenezuelaAlicia Guajardo Alatorre, ITESM, MexicoMatthias R. Kleinhempel, Univ. Austral, ArgentinaRenato C. Mello, COPPEAD Grad. Sch. of Bus., BrazilSergio A. Olavarrieta, University of Chile, ChileAna L. Rodriguez-Gusta, Ort University, UruguayJose Raul Sanabria, Univ. de Los Andes, ColombiaJorge Santamaria, Universidad Del Pacifico, EquadorJesus A. Trevino, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico

William David Brice, University of Hawaii, USAMourad Dakhli, University of South Carolina, USAZoltan Daroczi, Michigan State University, USAFilip De Beule, University of Antwerp, BelgiumDonald L. Ferrin, SUNY at Buffalo, USAHa Nam Khanh Giao, Nanyang Technological Univ., SingaporeSangphet Hanvanich, Michigan State University, USAPaula D. Harveston, Berry College, USAWei He, Boston College, USAGlen Hoetker, University of Michigan, USAGuy Holburn, Univ of California, Berkeley, USATrevor Hunter, Univ of Western Ontario, CanadaNikos Kakkos, Loughborough University, UKChang-Su Kim, Rutgers University, USADaekwan Kim, Michigan State University, USAJootae Kim, Seoul National University, KoreaJoan P. Mileski, Houston Baptist University,Alan Muller, Erasmus University, NetherlandsMiguel R. Olivas-Lujan, University of Pittsburgh, USAChinmay Pattnaik, Seoul National University, KoreaRachelle Sampson, New York University,Deepak Sethi, Univ of Texas - Dallas, USAElif Sonmez, Michigan State University, USAAna Teresa Tavares, The University of Reading, UKSusanne Van de Wateringen, Watenshappelijk Inst., NetherlandsDavina Vora, University of South Carolina, USASigrid Westphal Khorram, University of South Carolina, USAChanghui Zhou, University of Western Ontario, Canada

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2000 Program ChairS. Tamer Cavusgil

Michigan State University

was Monday, November 20. Anabundance of panel and competi-tive sessions packed the day. The2000 JIBS Decade Award winnerBenjamin Gomes-Casseres ofBrandeis University presented hiswork and its contribution to thefield over the past decade in a spe-cial session. During the AwardsLuncheon that followed, AIB VicePresident Tamer Cavusgil recog-nized his staff and the programcommittee for their contributions tothe quality of the the 2000 Program.The 2000 Haynes Prize for Best Pa-per was awarded to Gary A. Knightof Florida State University. CurrentDean of Fellows Susan Douglasspoke on behalf of the Fellows.Brian Toyne, St. Mary’s University,was elected as a new AIB Fellow.The International Dean of the YearAward was presented by selectioncommittee chair Peter Buckley toJohn Rose of the University ofMelbourne. AIB President José dela Torre spoke about the history ofthe AIB. (See page 1 for his presi-dential address.) Jagdish Sheth re-ceived a plaque in recognition of hisoutstanding service and generosityto the Academy of InternationalBusiness. Poster sessions were con-tinually popular throughout theconference. Despite being held atthe end of the final day, over 350people attended the wine and

Thunderbird Staff hard at work

Poster Sessions were packedProgram Co-Chair Attila Yaprak

Shirley Daniel, Tamer Cavusgil & Yair Aharoni

Arnold Schuh & Saeed Samiee

Peter Buckley & John Rose

Sessions were innovative and well attended

John Dunning & Eleanor Westney

Fellows Plenary Panel withAlan Rugman, Mira Wilkins,

Gomes-Casseres, and chair Tom Brewer

JIBS Decade Award Panel with Louis Wells, Jean-Francois Hennart, winner Ben





Tim Devinney of 2001 hostschool Australian GraduateSchool of Managementdelighted all at the awardsluncheon with someAustralian slang in hisinvitation to Sydney 2001.(See Call for Papersbrochure mailed with thisnewsletter for details.)

Roy Herberger and Jeff Arpan

Michigan State program coordinators

Strategic Planning for 2001

Luz Arpan and her dance partner

Anne Mette Dissing and Art Stonehill

Rob Grosse, Susan Douglas and colleagues

Laurel King & Angela Wong

cheese poster session.

Those with free time during theconference were encouraged to ex-plore Arizona and its many histori-cal sights. The weather was unusu-ally chilly for November, but at-tendees visited sites near Phoenixand also ventured out to view suchareas as the stunning Grand Can-yon and remarkable MontezumaCastle National Monument. A golftournament organized by GlenOmura of Michigan State Univer-sity on Friday before the start of theconference kicked off the fun.

All in all, this year’s conference

was a wonderful success. Thanksgo out to the program staff, hostschool, AIB staff, conference hotel,and numerous participants for alltheir contributions. The AIB invitesyou to join us at our 2001 meeting,which will be held in spectacularSydney, Australia and hosted by theAustralian Graduate School ofManagement. See the AIB web siteat www.aibworld.net for up-to-the-minute details.


Spectacular hoop dancing

Fountain in the desert sun

Native American chanting



MISCELLANEOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS

CALL FOR PAPERS

UUOTHERCALL FOR PAPERS

Please Note: miscellaneous positionannouncements are now postedexclusively on our Web site at

http://www.aibworld.net

M I S C E L L A N E O U S A N N O U N C E M E N T S

Note: The following announcement wasmistakenly listed in the Q3 issue underthe wrong University. We apologize forour error.

• UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-SAINT

LOUIS - NEW UNDERGRADUATE

INT’L BUSINESS PROGRAM

University of Missouri-Saint Louis ispleased to announce a new program in Sep-tember: their undergraduate internationalbusiness program for Honors College stu-dents. Some of the special features of theprogram are: Foreign language and over-seas business experience, membership in asmall community of capable students anddedicated faculty, international business andhonors curriculum, and generous scholar-ship support. The program will be treatedas pre-Masters in International Business(pre-MIB) preparing bright students for thebest graduate programs in internationalbusiness. For more information about theprogram, please visit the Web site at http://www.umsl.edu/divisions/business/hib.html

• INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF

AFRICAN BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT

APRIL 4-7, 2001 - WASHINGTON,DC

The main theme of the conference is “Ad-vancing Knowledge Development for Af-rican Business.” The conference will fea-ture contributed paper sessions, plenary pre-sentations, case studies, and panel sessions.The primary goal of this conference is toprovide a unique international forum to fa-cilitate the exchange of leading edge ideasfor effective advancement of knowledge inAfrican business. This will be achievedthrough multi-disciplinary presentationsand discussions of current business and de-velopment issues in Africa. For more infor-mation, please visit http://www.sju.edu/events/iaabd_conf/ or contact the programchair: Alphonso Ogbuehi, Erivan K. HaubSchool of Business, Saint Joseph’s Univer-sity, 5600 City Avenue, Philadelphia, PA19131; tel: 610-660-1105, fax: 610-660-

• INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS EXCEL-LENCE SUMMIT 2001MARCH 25-27, 2001 - SYDNEY,AUSTRALIA

Australia’s first International Business Ex-cellence Summit (IBES 2001) aims to en-hance learning, networking and the knowl-edge transfer of international best practicetrends and tools. The program will focus onpractice not theory with an emphasis on posi-tive outcomes to business and the areas thatdifferentiate best practice businesses fromtheir competitors. A stellar cast of Austra-lian and overseas speakers will present overtwo days (with concurrent expo) along withthe presentation event for the 13th AnnualAustralian Business Excellence Awards oc-curring on the evening of the first day. Formore information, please [email protected] or visit http://www.aqc.org.au/ibes.

• “PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR

PARTNERSHIPS: THE ENTERPRISE

GOVERNANCE”JUNE 6-9, 2001 - ENSCHEDE, THE

NETHERLANDS

Hosted by Sheffield Hallam University (UK)and the University of Twente (The Nether-lands), the overall aim of this conference isto bring together professionals and academ-ics working in the area of or with an interestin partnership for business development.Conference papers must aim at an audiencelooking to gain a better understanding ofcurrent issues on the working relationshipbetween public and private sectors and alsothe voluntary (i.e.: not-for-profit)organisations. Submission deadline is Feb-ruary 15, 2001. For more information,please contact: (UK) Luiz Montanheiro,Sheffield Business School, Stoddart Build-ing, City Campus, Sheffield S1 1WB, [email protected] or (NETHER-LANDS) A.g. Doree and/or W.D. Spiering,The University of Twente, Faculty of Tech-nology & Mgmt, Construction Process, POBox 217, 7500 AE Enschede,THE NETHERLANDS.

• JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL

MANAGEMENT : A SPECIAL ISSUE

ON LIABILITIES OF FOREIGNNESS:CONCEPTS, CONSTRUCTS,AND CONSEQUENCES

Guest edited by Yadong Luo and John M.Mezias of the School of Business Admin-istration at the University of Miami. SinceStephen Hymer introduced the concept ofdisadvantages and foreigness in 1960, ithas received scholarly attention from vari-ous fields. Although Hymer’s definitionof the liability of foreignness has becomemore widely used, the majority of thewriting has been anecdotal in nature, andfew studies have rigorously investigatedit, theoretically and empirically. Seekingto help advance our understanding of li-abilities of foreignness, the Journal of In-ternational Management is soliciting pa-pers for an upcoming special issue. A va-riety of theoretical and empirical ap-proaches to investigate this construct willbe considered for this issue. Papers mustbe recieved by March 1, 2001. Authorsshould prepare manuscripts in accordancewith JIM’s style guide (http://www.sbm.temple.edu/jim). All submis-sions will be subjected to the usual reviewprocess and judged based on the follow-ing criteria: conceptualization of this con-struct, advancement of our understandingthese liabilities of foreignness, likely util-ity to researchers and practitioners, andnovelty of the arguments advanced by thepapers. Submissions (in quadruplicate)and inquiries must be directed to: YadongLuo, Dept of Management, School ofBusiness Administration, University ofMiami, 414 Jenkins Building, CoralGables, FL 33124-9145, tel: (305) 284-4003, fax: (305) 284-3655, e-mail:[email protected]

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AIB NORTHEAST USACHAPTER CONFERENCE

JUNE 1-3, 2001SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA

It is not too early to mark your calendar for the 2001 meet-ing of the Academy of International Business Northeast U.S.Region. The event will be held June 1-3 (Friday - Sunday) atScranton, Pennsylvania. It is being hosted by the KaniaSchool of Management at the University of Scranton.

For more information, please contact the Conference Chair:

Dr. Susan TrusslerDirector, Center for International Business

Kania School of ManagementUniversity of Scranton

Scranton, PA 18510-4602USA

Tel: (570) 941-6122e-mail: [email protected]

AIB MIDWEST USA

CHAPTER CONFERENCEMARCH 7-9, 2001

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

The annual meeting of the Midwest Chapter of theAcademyof International Business will be held in conjunction withthe Midwest Business Administration Association annualmeetings in Chicago during March 7-9, 2001. For more in-formation about the conference, please contact:

Stewart R. MillerAsst. Professor of International Business

Michigan State UniversityN370 North Business ComplexEast Lansing, MI 48824-1122

Tel: (517) 353-6381 Fax: (517) 432-1112e-mail: [email protected]

or

Sumit K. KunduAssoc. Professor of International Business

St. Louis University3674 Lindell Blvd

St. Louis, MO 63108Tel: (314) 977-3601 Fax: (314) 977-7188

e-mail: [email protected]

AIB SOUTHEAST ASIA

CHAPTER CONFERENCEJULY 4-6, 2001

JAKARTA, INDONESIA

The University of Wollongong, Australia and the Univer-sity of Indonesia offer an invitation to you to join us at the2001 Conference of the AIBSEAR: Business Alliance forKnowledge and Development: Inter-firm, inter-sectoraland cross-cultural challenges in the Asia-Pacific. This isthe first time that the Conference of the AIBSEAR hasbeen held in Indonesia.

The conference aims to bring together academic research-ers, business entrepreneurs, researchers, policy makers,management practitioners, and consultants. We hope toattract a wide range of participants from around our re-gion and the globe. The theme of the conference has beencarefully chosen to encompass a range of issues that arevery relevant to inter-firm, inter-sectoral and internationalknowledge-based alliances.

The Kempinski Hotel forms the ideal venue for the con-ference. It is closed to Semanggi Interchange for directaccess to Soekarno Hatta Airport. The hotel is a primelocation in the heart of the Jakarta business district. Allrooms and apartments have a spectacular view over thecity of Jakarta. a block booking for accommodation forparticipants is held at the Kempinski Hotel. There are alsomany other quality hotels in close proximity.

For more information, please contact one of the follow-ing:

Ms. Eka YosidaUniversity of WollongongResearch Office forInternational CollaborationJakarta, Indonesiaat [email protected]: 62-21-391-1661Fax: 62-21-391-1660

Assoc. Prof. Tim TurpinUniversity of WollongongDirector - InternationalBusiness Research InstituteAustralia 2522at [email protected]: 61-2-4221-3270Fax: 61-2-4221-4962

Mr. Matt NguiUniversity of WollongongAssistant Director - Centrefor Research PolicyAustralia 2522at [email protected]: 61-2-4221-3273Fax: 61-2-4221-4962

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A S S O C I A T I O N F O R

GLOBAL BUSINESSThe 2001 Annual Conference of the Association for Global Busi-ness will be held in Cancun, Mexico on November 15-17, 2001.We invite all academicians, business professionals, and otherswith an interest in global business enterprises to attend. Papersdescribing results of recent research are solicited for presenta-tion at the meeting. All topics in business disciplines (account-ing, finance, International Business, management, and market-ing), economics, management information systems and computerscience, political science, and global strategies are appropriate.We also need session chairpersons and we encourage you to con-vene panel discussions. Submit four (4) copies of your completepaper or a four (4) page abstract, along with your e-mail addressto expedite the acknowledgment and acceptance process. Selectedpapers that are presented will be published either in the proceed-ings or in The Journal of Current Research in Global Business.Preference for publication will be given to complete papers. Thedeadline for submission of papers or proposals is May 15, 2001.Send all correspondence to:

Professor Hormoz MovassaghiAGB VP and Program Director

Ithaca College, School of BusinessIthaca, NY 14850

Tel: (607) 274-3956Fax: (607) 274-1152E-mail: [email protected]

JOURNAL OF GLOBAL BUSINESS The journal invites authors from the business, government, andacademic communities to contribute articles on domestic or In-ternational Business topics for possible publication in upcomingissues. JGB accepts manuscripts from a wide variety of disci-plines employing many different styles of writing. Articles fromall major disciplines of business and global strategies are appro-priate. Related political science topics are welcome. Submit four(4) copies of the original paper, the submission fee (AGB mem-bers US$20, nonmembers US$40) and a self-addressed, stampedpostcard to acknowledge the receipt of the manuscript. Addressall manuscripts and editorial correspondence to:

Faramarz Damanpour, EditorJournal of Global Business

P.O. Box 1381Harrisburg, VA 22803 USA

Tel/Fax: (540) 433-7403E-mail: [email protected]

Tenure Track PositionFall 2001

Assistant/Associate Professor ofInternational Business

School of Business & AdministrationBoeing Institute of International Business

Requirements: Applicants must possess a Ph.D. in InternationalBusiness or Business Administration. Tenure track positions carryan expectation of excellence in teaching and adequate evidenceof scholarly production.

Course Assignments: Probable assignments include Introduc-tion to International Business, International Business Strategies,and Asian, Latin American, or European Businesses courses.

The University: A Jesuit institution, Saint Louis University com-prises eleven schools and colleges specializing in numerous dis-ciplines including medicine and law. The university’s diversityis further enhanced with a fully operating campus in Madrid,Spain.

School of Business and Administration: Approximately 1300undergraduate and 400 graduate study at the university’s Schoolof Business Administration.

• Accreditation: The school is fully AACSB accredited

• Expansion: Completed in summer 2000, John and LucyCook Hall, the School’s $15 million expansion, containshigh tech classrooms, study rooms, offices, and meetingfacilities.

• International Business: Degrees offered include BS/BA,MBA, Ph.D. and Executive Master of International Busi-ness.

Location: Located in midtown St. Louis, the University isaccessible from all major thoroughfares. The St. Louismetropolitan area with 2.5 million residents is home to manyFortune 500 companies and is rated among the top cities forlivability, with regard to cost of living, housing, cultural andentertainment venues, educational institutions, andemployment. Numerous opportunities exist for the successfulcandidate to interact with area business leaders.

To be considered, please send cover letter, curriculum vitae, andsupporting documents to:

Dr. Seung H. Kim, DirectorBoeing Institute of International BusinessSaint Louis UniversityJohn and Lucy Cook Hall, Room 3323674 Lindell BoulevardSt. Louis, MO 63108-3397

Phone: (314) 977-3898 Email: [email protected]: (314) 977-7188 Website: http://biib.slu.edu/

Saint Louis University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Thefinal offer is subject to approval of the university’s budget.

20 ü AIB NEWSLETTER / FOURTH QUARTER 2000 A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

WELCOME TO THE FIRST AJBS CONFERENCE IN EUROPE

The Association of Japanese Business Studies (AJBS) will hold its 14th Annual Meeting 11-13 June, 2001. Theconference will be held in Seinajoki, Finland. The hostinstitution will be Seinajoki Polytechnic.

SPECIAL THEMES OF THE CONFERENCE• Co-operation of Universities and business• Japanese multinationals in EU since 1992• European expatriates (life, organisation, and representation)• Trilateral relationship with Europe and America (recent developments)• Labour market issues• E-commerce (economic and legal issues)

CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE FEBRUARY 12, 2001 For more information on Conference Website: ajbs.seamk.fi

Conference registration feesBefore 15 May After 15 May

Members 273 EUR 320 EURNon-members 320 EUR 367 EUR

For further information pleasecontact Ville-Pekka Makelainen,conference cordinator,Seinajoki Polytechnic,Business School.E-mail: [email protected]

Association ofJapanese Business Studies

The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) invites nominations and appli-cations for Dean of the College of Business Administration. The Dean willmaintain a strong presence in the region, enhance the image of the Col-lege in the business community, and develop the College’s external re-sources.

The Dean, working with the Associate Deans, will provide academic andadministrative leadership and support for the faculty and students of theCollege.

Review of applications will begin January 15, 2001 and will continue untilthe position is filled. The anticipated starting date for the position is Au-gust 1, 2001. For more information on how to submit an application, go towww.utep.edu and click on Job Listings.

The University of Texas at El Paso


Asia Pacific Business SeriesAnnounces

World Scientific Publishing

You are invited to submit your manuscripts or prospectusto one of the editors listed below.

Dr. Richard Brislinor

Dr. Lane KelleyDepartment of Management and Industrial Relations

College of Business AdministrationUniversity of HawaiiHonolulu, HI 96822

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DISCIPLINE & RESEARCH INTERESTCODES

A. ECONOMICSA1 International TradeA2 Theory of FDI and the MNEA3 Industrial OrganizationA4 Transaction Cost EconomicsA5 Economic DevelopmentA6 Economic IntegrationA7 Economics of Innovation & Technological TransferA8 Other . . . . . . . .

B. FINANCEB1 Cost of Capital & financial StructureB2 Capital BudgetingB3 International Financial MarketsB4 Foreign Exchange ManagementB5 Investment AppraisalB6 Transfer Pricing IssuesB7 Other . . . . . . . .

C. ACCOUNTING & TAXATIONC1 Comparative Accounting Systems & PracticesC2 International Financial ReportingC3 Measurement Issues (e.g., currency translation,

inflation effects)C4 International Management AccountingC5 Performance Evaluation & ControlC6 AuditingC7 International TaxationC8 Other . . . . . . . .

D. ORGANIZATIOND1 Organizational StructureD2 The Sociology of OrganizationsD3 Decision-taking Structures, HQ-Subsidiary RelationsD4 Inter-firm Organizations (JV, Alliances, Networking)D5 Comparative Organizational StudiesD6 Other . . . . . . . .

E. MANAGEMENTE1 Comparative ManagementE2 Cross-Cultural ManagementE3 Management & Information Systems (Planning,

Strategy, Control, Information)E4 Management of TechnologyE5 Production/Sourcing Operations ManagementE6 Management of RiskE7 EntrepreneurshipE8 Other . . . . . . . .

F. BUSINESS POLICYF1 Business StrategyF2 Business/Government InteractionF3 Business & the EnvironmentF4 Business Policy & Developing CountriesF5 Global Competition & MarketsF6 Other . . . . . . . .

G. MARKETINGG1 Comparative MarketingG2 International Marketing Management & StrategyG3 Cross-national Consumer & Industrial BehaviorG4 Int’l Product/Prom/Pricing/Dist StrategyG5 Export/Import: Foreign Market Entry ModesG6 Other . . . . . . . .

H. HUMAN RESOURCES & INDUSTRIAL RELATIONSH1 Human Resources (incl Personnel) ManagementH2 Comparative IR SystemsH3 Dispute ResolutionH4 Labor/Management Issues (incl wage negotiations)H5 Employment Effects of FDI & MNE ActivityH6 Recruiting & Training IssuesH7 Other . . . . . . . .

DISCIPLINE & RESEARCH INTERESTCODES

I. LAWI1 Law of ContractI2 International Property LawI3 Extra-territorialityI4 Foreign Investment LawsI5 Investment Guarantees & Dispute SettlementsI6 Negotiation & Bargaining ProceduresI7 Int’l Trade Law & Int’l OrganizationsI8 Codes of ConductI9 Other . . . . . . . .

J. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND POLITICAL SCIENCEJ1 Political Risk Assessment & ManagementJ2 Inter-Government RelationsJ3 Issues of Sovereignty, Hegemony & DependenceJ4 Political Aspects of MNE Activity, BureaucraciesJ5 MNEs & Distribution PowerJ6 Pressure Groups, Public Affairs, Public OpinionJ7 Other . . . . . . . .

K. SOCIAL ISSUESK1 Environment & PollutionK2 Consumer ProtectionK3 Income DistributionK4 South AfricaK5 Cultural Impact of MNEsK6 Other . . . . . . . .

L. ECONOMIC & BUSINESS HISTORYL1 Economic HistoryL2 Business History (general)L3 Business History (company specific)L4 History of FDI & the MNEL5 Other . . . . . . . .

M. COUNTRY OR AREA STUDYM1 North AmericaM2 Latin AmericaM3 EuropeM4 JapanM5 Other Asia & PacificM6 Africa & Middle East

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O. POLICY-ORIENTED STUDYO1 Cost-Benefit AnalysisO2 Foreign Direct Investment PolicyO3 Investment IncentivesO4 Performance RequirementsO5 Nationalization, Expropriation, etc.O6 Other . . . . . . . .

P. EDUCATION & IBP1 Pedagogic IssuesP2 Curricula & SyllabiP3 Education & IBP4 Research Methodology in IBP5 Case StudiesP6 Teacher Training in IBP7 Other . . . . . . . .

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