Dear colleagues:

I am pleased to be able to inform you that the Aalto University School of Business will again be offering the Aalto University School of Business “That’s Interesting!” Award, which will be awarded to a paper presented at the 2013 AIB conference in Istanbul. The award, which includes a plaque and a prize of US$1000, is intended to recognize a paper that pushes the envelope and is, well, really interesting! The paper that received the 2012 award – “Effectuation and Networking of Internationalizing SMEs”, by Tamara Galkina (Hanken School of Economics) and Sylvie Chetty (University of Otago) – is an excellent example.

Please see the description below for details. The selection committee looks forward to reading the papers that this year’s AIB conference track chairs nominate for the award.

Best regards,

Beth

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Aalto University School of Business

“That’s Interesting!” Award

The Aalto University School of Business “That’s Interesting!” Award recognizes the Academy of International Business (AIB) conference paper that most effectively pushes the boundaries of our existing knowledge in the field. The criteria for the award are based on the extent to which the paper:

·         crosses boundaries,

·         challenges taken-for-granted assumptions in the field,

·         denies old “truths”,

·         attracts the reader’s attention, and

·         makes an original argument.

The award has been named after Murray S. Davis’ seminal article about how to define what is interesting in social sciences (Davis, M.S. 1971. That’s interesting! Towards a phenomenology of sociology and sociology of phenomenology. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 1: 309-344). Nominations are made by the AIB conference track chairs, and the award includes a plaque and US$1000. Nominated papers may address any topic in International Business, so long as they meet some or all of the above criteria.