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Roughly 900 members attended the Academy of International Business 2009 annual meeting in San Diego, California, this past summer. The program was titled “Is the World Flat or Spiky? Implications for Global Strategies” and had 986 submissions, which is the second highest number of submissions ever for an AIB conference. The program was comprised of 4 plenary sessions, 30 panels, 6 pedagogy sessions, 85 competitive paper sessions, and 37 interactive paper sessions, for a total of 162 sessions over three days.
There were a number of innovations in this year’s program. Throughout the conference there were several “State-of-the-Art Research” panels organized by the track chairs. These panels reviewed and surveyed some of the trends and directions from the past, present, and future in a specific area. The interactive paper sessions were chaired sessions with a new roundtable format that encouraged discussion across the individual presenters, rather than a series of monologues. A new activity was the Fellows Café, where AIB members were invited to join small groups hosted over breakfast by AIB Fellows who facilitated stimulating discussions of specific IB topics. In addition, there were a number of networking receptions for each of the main functional areas that make up the interdisciplinary field of international business. Lastly, this year was the 40th Anniversary of JIBS, and the program reflected the celebration with a number of JIBS-related panels and sessions.
Visit http://aib.msu.edu/events/2009/ to view the Conference Photo Gallery, to see the full list of award nominees, and to download the conference program and proceedings.
October 11, 2009
Symposium on Multicultural Psychology - Conducting Multinational Research Projects in Organizational Psychology: Challenges and Opportunities
This is a conference that is part of the biennial Symposium on Multicultural Psychology at Michigan State University. The goal of the symposium is to identify the best practices and methodological lessons learned from conducting large scale multinational projects and will feature renowned researchers as invited speakers, breakout and discussion groups for interchange on one's own cross-cultural research, and a poster session.
October 13, 2009
Michigan Export Growth Program Kick-Off
Local companies are invited to a breakfast meeting to learn more about the Michigan Export Growth Program (MEGP), and how they can benefit from this innovative new program.
October 20, 2009
Global Business Club of Mid-Michigan: Robert Selig
Robert Selig, Executive Director of the Capital Regional International Airport, presents "Lansing's International Port of Entry and Foreign Trade Zone"
October 21, 2009
Lansing Regional Chamber Economic Club Luncheon: Peter Pratt
Peter Pratt is Senior Vice President, Health & Human Services at Public Sector Consultants.
November 11, 2009
Lansing Regional Chamber Economic Club Luncheon: Claes Fornell
Claes Fornell is Chairman of CFI Group.
November 17, 2009
Global Business Club of Mid-Michigan: Andrew Mangan
Andrew Mangan, Executive Director of the U.S. Business Council for Sustainable Development, presents "Taking Your Business Global Through Foreign Partners."
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