Dear Colleagues,

AIB Insights is pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue (Vol. 17, Issue 2)!

This focused issue titled “Making AIB and Our Field of IB More Legitimate and Relevant” publishes a set of articles which discuss the new challenges facing our field in a new era for international business, explores some actionable projects to tackle these challenges, and propose specific opportunities for you, our valued AIB Insights readership, to become involved in this dialogue.

One of these opportunities is a Panel Session titled “Tracing the Contours of a New Era for International Business: Regaining Legitimacy and Relevance for its Study” at the upcoming AIB 2017 Annual Meeting in Dubai, July 2-5 (the panel session is scheduled for Tuesday, July 4 from 9:00 to 10:15 a.m. in Room Dubai 1-2 at the JW Marriott Marquis Conference Hotel). All authors who contributed to this focused issue will join as panelists. We hope that you find this focused issue valuable, and we cordially invite you to attend the aforementioned panel in Dubai in order to engage in a fruitful conversation on how we, as the AIB, can regain relevance and legitimacy for our field.

Table of Contents: Volume 17, Issue 2

How to Regain Legitimacy and Relevance in a New Era for International Business: If Not Us, Who?

Jean J. Boddewyn and Daniel Rottig

The Declining Relevance and Legitimacy of IB Scholarship in a World That Really Needs It

Simon Collinson

Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est La Même Chose? Or, That Was Then, This Is Now!

Mary Ann Von Glinow

Phenomenon-Based Research in International Business: Making IB Relevant Again

Jonathan Doh

Global Value Chains, Emerging Markets, and IB Education

Robert Grosse

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