Dear Colleagues:
Please join us for an innovative webinar which will open the black box of the review process at JIBS and provide you insights about how to increase your chances of getting your article through the review process. Please see details below. -Carl Fey, BI Norwegian Business School
JIBS/JIBP Webinar Series Webinar: How to Successfully Navigate the Review Process
Date & Time: 18 December 2025, 15:00 UTC (View Local Time)
Host: Journal of International Business Studies and Journal of International Business Policy
Point of Contact: Carl Fey (carl.fey@bi.no)
Registration: The event is free, but you must register in advance at: https://aibworld.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_53ICsjqpTauZb-UbgZEJ2A#/registration
Event Recording Access: Current AIB members will be able to access a recording of this event in the "AIB Video Archive" section of our login portal. New webinar recordings are typically posted within five business days of the original event date.
Event Overview: Join us for for this free webinar, which will open up the black box of the editorial review process at top journals like the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) and Journal of International Business Policy (JIBP). In this session we will break down how an article recently published in JIBS progressed through the review process.
In this unique webinar we will have a chance to talk to JIBS Area Editor Jonathan Doh from Villanova University, about what reviewers were trying to achieve during different phases of the review process. We will also get a complementary perspective from Charles Stevens of Rutgers University about how he and his co-authors successfully navigated the review process at JIBS to get their paper accepted. This session will provide attendees with a rare opportunity to see the review process from multiple perspectives, including editors, reviewers, and authors. Carl Fey from BI Norwegian Business School will moderate the webinar.
ARTICLE TO BE DISCUSSED
Makarius, E., Kahindi, A., Stevens, C., Hong, E. 2025. Reputational judgments of foreign MNEs' societal impact in frontier markets: The role of compatible, crossed, and conflicting signals. Journal of International Business Studies 56, 901-920.
PANELISTS
Jonathan P. Doh is Senior Associate Dean for Research, Faculty, and Global Engagement; Rammrath Chair in International Business; Founding Faculty Director of the Center for Global Leadership (on leave); and Professor of Management at the Villanova School of Business. He teaches and does research at the intersection of international business, strategic management, and corporate sustainability. Previously, he was on the faculty of American and Georgetown Universities and a trade official with the U.S. Government. He is author or co-author of more than 100 refereed articles, 40 chapters, a dozen teaching cases and simulations, and eight books. His articles have appeared in AMR, JIBS, JOM, JMS, MISQ, OS, and SMJ, among others and his co-authored books have been published by Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale University presses. He was previously an Editor- in-Chief of Journal of World Business and Journal of Management Studies. He is currently Editor (Sustainability) at JIBS. He is a fellow of AOM and AIB, and in the most recent (Stanford/PLOS) ranking of scientists globally, he placed in the top 0.5 percent of scholars in business management (282 out of 57,191). His PhD is from George Washington University.
Charles E. Stevens is an Associate Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School. His research centers on the intersection of the international business and strategic management fields, contributing to research streams on emerging market strategy and nonmarket strategy. He has a particular interest in understanding how social judgments such as reputation and legitimacy affect multinational firms' strategy and performance in challenging institutional environments, as well as how multinational firms' impact is perceived by the host communities in which they invest. His research has appeared in journals including Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Management and he serves on the editorial review board of Academy of Management Collections, Academy of Management Journal, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Business Policy, Journal of International Business Studies, and Journal of World Business.
Carl F. Fey is a Professor of Strategy at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway. Previously he was Dean of Nottingham University Business School China and led it through a substantial period of upgrading. He has also been a Professor at Aalto University and Stockholm School of Economics where among other things he helped start and lead the development of a branch campus in Russia. Fey is an elected fellow of the Academy of International Business and is recipient of the 2013 Journal of International Business Studies Decade Award. Fey is an expert in international aspects of innovation, leadership, knowledge transfer, organizational culture, virtual work, strategic HR, internationalization, and mergers and acquisitions. Professor Fey's work helps firms to understand which management practices can help increase organizational effectiveness and innovation taking into account the future of work and cultural/institutional differences between countries. Professor Fey has a special interest in understanding what practices works well in China. Fey is a sought-after executive educator and public speaker and also frequently in the media.
Note: Carl Fey and Stephanie Wang run the JIBS/JIBP Webinar series.
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Carl Fey
Professor
BI Norwegian Business School
Oslo
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