Journal of International Business Studies
JIBS40/AIB50 Special Anniversary Issue: Innovations in International
Business Theory
In 2008, the Academy of International Business (AIB) celebrated its 50th
anniversary, and this year the official publication of the Academy of
International Business, Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS),
celebrates its 40th anniversary. To commemorate these two milestones JIBS
is now publishing a Special Issue, the “JIBS40/AIB50 Anniversary Issue:
Innovations in International Business Theory”.
In the Anniversary Issue are articles typifying the very best of what the
JIBS editorial team would like to see appear regularly in the journal, in
terms of insightful and influential theory.
In response to the July 2007 Call for Papers, the journal received 73
submissions from authors at institutions in 20 countries. After several
rounds of double-blind review and revision, seven articles and two
perspective pieces were selected for publication in the Anniversary Issue.
Three of the articles hark back to earlier classic research in
international business. Johanson and Vahlne, the authors of the most
widely cited and possibly most influential JIBS article, have written a
new piece, ‘The Uppsala internationalisation process model revisited: From
liability of foreignness to liability of outsidership,’ which updates
their 1977 article to take account of changes in business practices and
theoretical advances.
The Anniversary Issue also includes a Perspective by Buckley and
Casson, ‘The internalisation theory of the multinational enterprise: A
review of the progress of a research agenda after 30 years’, reviewing
research progress since the publication of The Future of the Multinational
Enterprise (1976), the most highly cited and possibly most influential
book written on multinational enterprises. The Issue concludes with a
Perspective by Lorraine Eden and the winners of the 1970-1985 JIBS Decade
Awards, where the authors discuss the core insights of their Decade Award
papers and assess the relevance of their JIBS articles for today’s
scholars. FREE links to these three articles are available below.
The other six Anniversary articles, which will also be of great interest
to today’s scholars, span several major topics in current international
business research: the relative efficiency of the different markets in
which MNE and complementary local assets are traded (Hennart); how firms
choose, use, and modify their modes of operation in foreign markets
(Benito, Petersen and Welch); bounded reliability as a substitute for
opportunism (Verbeke and Greidanus); information technology and
internalization (Rangan and Sengul); the effect of global diversification
on firm value (Gande, Schenzler and Senbet); and property rights
protection, corporate transparency and growth (Dumev, Errunza and
Molchanov).
These Anniversary Issue articles will be the new benchmark against which
others will now be measured - articles which will no doubt be widely read,
highly cited and exceptionally influential within the international
business field.
View the issue table of contents now-
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jibs/journal/v40/n9/index.html
Selected free online content:
The Uppsala Internationalisation Process Model Revisited - From Liability
of Foreignness to Liability of Outsidership Johanson & Vahlne
(http://www.palgrave-
journals.com/jibs/journal/v40/n9/full/jibs200924a.html)
The internalization theory of the multinational enterprise: A review of
the progress of a research agenda after 30 years Buckley and Casson
(http://www.palgrave-
journals.com/jibs/journal/v40/n9/full/jibs200949a.html)
Perspectives on international business: Insights from the JIBS Decade
Award winners, 1970-1985 Eden and the 1970-1985 Decade Award Winners
(http://www.palgrave-
journals.com/jibs/journal/v40/n9/full/jibs200967a.html)
For further information please contact:
Anne Hoekman, Managing Editor, Academy of International Business,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1121, USA
Email:
Managing-Editor@jibs.net Phone: +1-517-432-1452
Sophia Blackwell, Product Manager, Palgrave Macmillan, 4 Crinan Street,
London N1 9XW Email:
s.blackwell@palgrave.com Phone: +44 (0) 20 7014 4030