AIB-CEE 2025: AIB Insights Paper Development Workshop
We invite submissions to an AIB Insights Paper Development Workshop, to be held during the upcoming AIB-CEE conference in Bratislava (24th - 26th September 2025).
• Date and time: 26th September (precise time TBD)
• Location: Bratislava University of Economics and Management (Furdekova str.16, Bratislava)
• Submission Deadline: 12th September 2025*
• Communication of Decisions: Rolling
• PDW organizers:
o Elizabeth L. Rose, Indian Institute of Management Udaipur
o Desislava Dikova, Vienna University of Economics & Business
* Note: Early submissions will be reviewed, and decisions communicated, on a rolling basis prior to this deadline.
Who Should Attend this Event?
Are you doing research that can be communicated effectively in a short (approximately 2500 words) article that is interesting, topical, current, and thought-provoking? Do you want to master the skill of writing such an article – one that addresses theoretical, empirical, practical, or pedagogical issues of value to the broad community of international business (IB) scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and educators – with an emphasis on applied insights? If your response to both of these questions is “Yes”,then this workshop is for you, because AIB Insights – one of three journals published by the Academy of International Business (the world’s leading association of international business scholars) – provides an outlet for precisely such work!
Writing for AIB Insights requires a different approach, relative to journals such as Journal of International Business Studies or Journal of International Business Policy. This paper development workshop will enable scholars to gain developmental feedback on ideas and manuscripts that they are considering for submission to AIB Insights. We invite original submissions and ideas from researchers at all levels of experience, and particularly encourage junior scholars and PhD students to attend.
How is this Event Structured?
The workshop will include an overview of AIB Insights, with an emphasis on writing for the journal, along with break-out sessions for feedback – from two members of the AIB Insights editorial team – on submitted idea papers (see below).
How Can I Submit a Paper Idea?
To participate in the AIB Insights PDW, scholars must submit a short (maximum of 1000 words) manuscript that describes an idea for an AIB Insights article.
Authors of idea papers that are accepted for the PDW will have the opportunity to receive detailed comments from members of our editorial team (editors and/or members of the editorial review board) during the PDW.
The deadline for submissions is 12th September 2025, in the submitting author’s time zone. Please consult the AIB Insights “For Authors” page when preparing the submission. To submit, please send your file in an email to BOTH and with the subject line: AIB Insights AIB-CEE PDW Submission.
What Should I Do if My Submission is Accepted?
By submitting a manuscript, you are committing that at least one of the idea paper’s authors will participate in the full PDW – in-person, in Bratslava – if the submission is accepted. Participants must register for the 2025 AIB-CEE Conference in order to attend the AIB Insights PDW.
Post-PDW Publication Opportunity
The PDW is designed to aid authors in developing manuscripts for submission to AIB Insights. We hope that many of the submitted idea papers will be developed into published AIB Insights articles. All submissions will be subject to the journal’s usual double-blind submission process; participation in the PDW does not guarantee publication in the journal.
