The History of the Academy of International Business Shared Interest Groups (SIGs)

Lilac Nachum ()
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Lilac Nachum: Leeds University Business School

Chapter Chapter 17 in The Historical Evolution of International Business, 2025, pp 331-342 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The SIGs supplement the geography-based focus of AIB activities by the AIB chapters in a thematic-based focus that cuts across geography and deepens the association’s scholarly engagements. This chapter portrays the evolution of the SIGs during the first two decades of the 2000s based on interviews of their founders supplemented by secondary sources. It is suggested that the SIGs emerged as a response to developments in IB thought and teaching that the existing AIB infrastructure has not fully addressed. Following the metaphor of the MNE applied to the AIB chapters, the SIGs are presented as corresponding to the functional functions of the MNE with functional specialization that cuts across geographies. A comparison of the SIGs and the chapters offers insightful understanding of the challenges of managing a large professional association spread across geographies around the world. It is suggested that the global structure of the SIGs and its similarity to that of the AIB has removed much of the tension that chapters have experienced in their relationships with the AIB. In parallel, this global structure has brought a set of challenges related to the separation across space and time that are less apparent in relation to the geography-based chapters.

Keywords: Special interest groups (SIGs); Thematic expansion over distance; The AIB as a global organization; Challenges of geographic distance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-86133-8_17

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