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2009 JIBS Best Reviewers

JIBS would like to congratulate the winners of the second annual JIBS Best Reviewer Awards and thank them for their dedication to the journal.

“Back to 1970” Decade Award winners

As part of this year’s anniversary celebrations, the JIBS Editors engaged in a “Back to 1970” project to extend the Decade Awards from 1985 back to the first volume in 1970. Please join us in congratulating these authors, whose papers are now available for download on the Decade Award page.

2009 JIBS Decade Award

Please join us in congratulating Professors Henrik Bresman, Julian Birkinshaw, and Robert Nobel as the winners of the 2009 JIBS Decade Award for their 1999 article "Knowledge Transfer in International Acquisitions".

Call for JIBS Editor

We are now calling for nominations for the position of JIBS Editor-in-Chief, 2011-2013.

John H Dunning

JIBS mourns the loss of John H. Dunning, one of the founders of and a major contributor to the field of international business studies, former President of the Academy of International Business and the AIB Fellows, a JIBS Consulting Editor and recent recipient of the JIBS Decade Award, who passed away on January 29, 2009.

JIBS Editorials are now free to view!

JIBS editorials not only give a compelling snapshot of the content of a particular issue, they also provide a cogent synthesis of themes running through particular issues and of current topicality and concern. You can now read the recent archive of JIBS editorials, freely available from this site.

JIBS Impact Factor increases

Thomson Science has published the latest (2007) Journal Citation Reports. JIBS has an improved ranking. An Impact Factor of 2.283 means that JIBS is now listed at number 7 in the Business category and also at number 10 in the Management category.

We have a new link on our menu to the left of this page - Journal activities - click here to see regularly updated information about JIBS workshops and events.

Calls for Papers

GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISES AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Submissions are requested for a Special Issue of Journal of International Business Studies.

This Special Issue is motivated by and in memory of John H. Dunning (Professor Emeritus, University of Reading and Rutgers University). Professor Dunning was one of the founders of the modern field of international business (IB) research, with a scholarly oeuvre spanning a 50-year period. His last public message, sent to the Academy of International Business Fellows just before he passed away on January 29, 2009, recommended that JIBS prepare a Special Issue devoted to “the various and unique causes and implications of the current world wide credit crunch and economic slow down; and what might be done to avoid this happening again.”

Deadline for submission: January 29, 2010
Tentative publication date: Winter 2011
Access the Call for Papers.

Qualitative Research in International Business

Submissions are requested for a Special Issue of Journal of International Business Studies.
Submission Start Date: September 1, 2009
Deadline for submission: September 18, 2009
Publication Date: Spring or Summer 2011
Access the call for papers.

Sixth Annual JIBS Paper Development Workshop

Academy of International Business Annual Meetings, San Diego, CA
Saturday, June 27, 2009

The Sixth Annual JIBS Paper Development Workshop (PDW) will be held in San Diego, California, from 8:30 am to 1:00 pm on Saturday, June 27, 2009, as part of the pre-conference program for the AIB annual meetings.The purpose of the workshop is to provide participants with detailed feedback on their work prior to submission to the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS). Last year, almost 40 JIBS editors and members of the Consulting Editors Board (CEB) and Editorial Review Board (ERB) participated.

We are inviting original papers from junior faculty members who have not previously published in JIBS. In particular, we hope to attract papers from junior scholars who are located in universities that offer limited support for international business research, trained in other disciplines (e.g., political science, organizational behavior, sociology) but are interested in conducting international business research, or are located in universities in emerging or transition economies.

Participation at the PDW is limited. Participants will be invited based on the quality of their submitted work. We are expecting two types of submissions, full research papers and paper ideas. Papers and ideas should be submitted using the upload site. The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2009. Research papers must be less than 10,000 words in length, and follow the JIBS Style Guide (www.palgrave-journals.com/jibs/style_guide.html). Paper ideas must be no more than 3,000 words in length and include a theoretical framework, propositions, and proposed research design. We will select paper ideas to provide solutions to typical research problems and invite their authors to the PDW. Participants will be notified about the acceptance of their submission no later than March 1, 2009 and will need to confirm their participation by March 31, 2009.

Please address any questions to: Deanna Johnston, JIBS Editorial Assistant (jibsae@mays.tamu.edu) or Laszlo Tihanyi (ltihanyi@tamu.edu).

The JIBS PDW upload site is now available and the link can be found here: aib.msu.edu/events/2009/JIBSWorkshop.asp.
If you have a question about the upload site, please email jibsae@mays.tamu.edu.