AIB 2009 San Diego Conference Program - Academy of ...

in Memory of John H. Dunning. The panel discussion will
honor the memory of John H. Dunning. All the panelists
that were close collaborators of John Dunning will talk of
his influence on our work, and of what we learned from
him.
• Regular sessions and panels starts at 10:00 and runs until
15:15 and here we will highlight the Pedagogy session
at 10:00 on Dissemination Thought Leadership on
Managing the Flat versus Spiky World: The Case for “New
Generation” IB Textbooks that includes authors on some
the most used textbooks in IB.
• During the program on Tuesday we will have the special
sessions of the regional IB-organizations: AJBS (Japan),
ANZIBA (Australia and New Zealand), and BALAS (Latin-
America).
• The JIBS Decade Award will be presented from 11:45 to 13:00. This year’s decade award goes to Henrik Bresman, Julian
Birkinshaw and Robert Nobel and the session provides the opportunity to learn more about their retrospective reflections
and the impact of their work.
• The AIB Awards Ceremony and Business Meeting follows at 15:45 to 17:15, at which time several important recognitions will
be announced.
• Culminating the entire program event will be the AIB Awards Reception which will be a time for celebration and to bid your
fond farewells to your fellow participants.
The fact that this year’s conference received a very high number of submissions owes in part to the excellent group fourteen track
chairs that we had. However, although they were all major contributors to the success of this event, this success came at a personal
price for each of them. My note of thanks therefore begin with them: Jonathan Doh (co-chair: Jennifer Oetzel), Timothy Devinney,
Hemant Merchant (co-chair: Ajai Gaur), Björn Ambos, Ulf Andersson, Snejina Michailova (co-chair: Kenneth Husted), Ram Mudambi,
Ruth Aguilera, Bent Petersen, Michael Mol, Ravi Ramamurti, and P. Roberto Garcia. What a fantastic team!
I gratefully acknowledge as well the efforts of our pre-conference organizers Tatiana Kostova, Farok Contractor, Laszlo Tihanyi and
Lorraine Eden. Let us not forget either the 1.274 reviewers on whose voluntary work we relied and our many session chairs, without
whom this event would have been impossible. A special word of course for my fellow Executive Board members who helped to us
prepare for the conference when we met in February: Yves Doz, Stefanie Lenway, Tatiana Kostova, Pervez Ghauri, and Tomas Hult.
The local organizing committee led by Mark Ballam has so wonderfully prepared conference events and invited local speakers. The
AIB Fellows chaired by Eleanor Westney have helped in putting together a great panel that opens the conference in the best possible
way. Lorraine Eden has been very instrumental and done a fantastic job in organizing the JIBS-related activities at the conference.
I save the most important votes of thanks of all to last. This conference would never have taken place without the unparalleled
dedication support of Tunga Kiyak and his team at the AIB Secretariat. Over the years I have been involved in many professional
associations in academia. I have never come across
any other executive officer whose capabilities,
degree of attention and care for details come even
remotely close to that of Tunga. In acting as the
Program Administrator of the conference Kristine
Olsen, CBS, helped us put the program together,
worked very long hours, and still showed an
unflagging commitment. We were further ably
helped by Program Assistant at CBS: Regitze
Leleur that became a true master in handling the
IT-systems.
I am quietly confident that this will be a great
event. So, please do enjoy the conference!
Torben Pedersen
2009 AIB Program Chair
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