IBR Best Journal Paper of the Year Award The International Business Review (IBR) offers the IBR Best Journal Paper of the Year Award and accompanying prize for the best IBR article (published in the previous year's volume) in terms of enhancing the field of IB. We are delighted to announce that the three shortlisted papers for this year’s award are: Strategic orientations, joint learning, and innovation generation in international customer-supplier relationships<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0969593117300021> ; Ruey-Jer "Bryan" Jean, Daekwan Kim, Jyh-She Chiou, Roger Calantone The logic behind foreign market selection: Objective distance dimensions vs. strategic objectives and psychic distance<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0969593117300045> ; Giovanna Magnani, Antonella Zucchella, Dinorá Eliete Floriani Subsidiary knowledge creation in co-evolving contexts<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0969593117301154> ; Paul Ryan, Majella Giblin, Ulf Andersson, Johanna Clancy The winner of the IBR Award will be announced at the EIBA Annual Conference award ceremony. Best Wishes The Chief Editor and the Editorial Team AWARD WINNERS IN PREVIOUS YEARS 2018 Xialoan FU (University of Oxford), Jun HOU (Nanjing Audit University) & Marco SANFILIPPO (University of Bari | University of Antwerp) Highly skilled returnees and the internationalization of EMNEs: Firm level evidence from China. IBR, June 2017, 26(3), pp. 579-591. 2017 Mohammad Faisal AHAMMAD (University of Leeds), Shlomo TARBA (University of Birmingham), Yipeng LIU (University of Birmingham) & Keith GLAISTER (University of Warwick) Knowledge transfer and cross-border acquisition performance: The impact of cultural distance and employee retention. IBR, February 2016, 25(1), pp. 66-75. 2016 Emmanuel ADEGBITE (Leicester Business School) Good corporate governance in Nigeria: Antecedents, propositions and peculiarities. IBR, April 2015, 24(2), pp. 319-330. 2015 Alessandra PERRI (Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia) & Ulf ANDERSSON (Mälardalen University / BI Norwegian Business School) Knowledge outflows from foreign subsidiaries and the tension between knowledge creation and knowledge protection: Evidence from the semiconductor industry. IBR, February 2014, 23(1), pp. 63-75. 2014 Chiara FRANCO (University of Bologna) Exports and FDI motivations: Empirical evidence from U.S. foreign subsidiaries. IBR, February 2013, 22(1), pp. 47-62. 2013 C. WANG, J. HONG, M. KAFOUROS & A. BOATENG What drives outward FDI of Chinese firms? Testing the explanatory power of three theoretical frameworks. 2012 Jan-Erik VAHLNE, Inge IVARSSON & Jan JOHANSSON The tortuous road to globalization for Volvo’s heavy truck business: Extending the scope of the Uppsala model. IBR, February 2011, 20(1), pp. 1-14. 2011 Mo YAMIN (University of Manchester) & Sougand GOLESORKHI (Manchester Metropolitan University) Cultural distance and the pattern of equity ownership structure in international joint ventures. IBR, October 2010, 19(5). 2010 Sverre TOMASSEN & Gabriel BENITO The costs of governance in international companies. IBR, June 2009, 18(3): pp. 292-304. 2009 Sjoerd BEUGELSDIJK (University of Groningen), Roger SMEETS & Remco ZWINKELS (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) The impact of horizontal and vertical FDI on host country's economic growth. 2008 Xuefei MA & Andrew DELIOS (National University of Singapore) A new tale of two cities: Japanese FDIs in Shanghai and Beijing, 1979-2003. 2007 Li DONG & Keith GLAISTER (University of Sheffield) Motives and partner selection criteria in international strategic alliances: Perspectives of Chinese firms. 2006 Michael MOL (Reading University), Rob VAN TULDER & Paul BEIJE (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Antecedents and performance consequences of international outsourcing. ____ 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.