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THE 2013 JIBS DECADE AWARD The Selection Committee for the JIBS Decade Award is pleased to announce that the article "MNC knowledge transfer, subsidiary absorptive capacity, and HRM" by Dana Minbaeva (Copenhagen Business School), Torben Pedersen (Copenhagen Business School), Ingmar Björkman (Aalto University), Carl Fey (University of Nottingham Ningbo) and Hyeon Park (Georgia State University) has been selected as the winner of the 2013 JIBS Decade Award. The award, sponsored by Palgrave Macmillan, is designed to recognize the most influential paper published in the Journal of International Business Studies ten years prior and is presented at the annual AIB conference. In order to be considered for the JIBS Decade Award, an article must be one of the five most cited articles published in JIBS for the year being considered. This year's Selection Committee members were Jaeyong Song (Chair, selected by the JIBS Editor-in-Chief), the current AIB Program Chair Patricia McDougall, and the previous AIB Program Chair Susan Feinberg. JIBS Editor-in-Chief John Cantwell was an ex officio, non-voting committee member. The Selection Committee examined total citations, total number of journals citing the paper, and total number of leading journals (excluding JIBS) citing the paper to determine the top five most cited articles. The Committee read and discussed the top five nominees and then voted on the winning article. In recommending the award-winning article, the Committee noted that: "It has been a wonderfully productive idea to relate both absorptive capacity and knowledge transfer to HR practices. Minbaeva et al. offered pioneering conceptual arguments about the relationship between MNC subsidiary HRM practices, absorptive capacity, and knowledge transfer. In particular, they advanced our understanding of the concept of absorptive capacity by emphasizing employees' motivation as well as employees' ability as key aspects of absorptive capacity. Moreover, through a three-stage least squares estimation of a simultaneous equation model, the authors took a step further by treating the development of absorptive capacity as an endogenous part of their model. This path-breaking paper has opened the way to many interesting and important further developments in the examination of different kinds of HR practices that facilitate knowledge transfer in MNCs - an issue that is vital to practice." A session will be held at the upcoming 2013 AIB Annual Meeting in Istanbul, in which Profs. Minbaeva, Pedersen, Björkman, Fey and Park and two invited discussants, Jaeyong Song (Seoul National University; 2013 committee chair) and Paula Caligiuri (Rutgers University), will comment on the paper. A reception honoring the Decade Award winning paper and its author will also be held as part of the closing reception at the conference. We hope that you will join us in Istanbul to attend these events; the date and times will be available at http://aib.msu.edu/events/2013/ when the conference program is finalized. A reprint of the award winning article, together with the authors' commentary, will be published in the first issue of the 2014 volume of the Journal of International Business Studies. ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: [log in to unmask] For assistance: [log in to unmask] AIB-L is a moderated list.