Daria Panina

• Texas A&M University

Purpose This paper aims to clarify how business education has and should incorporate more resources, policies and stakeholder engagement towards the incorporation of sustainability, by conducting a literature review on sustainability in business and international business education and proposing future opportunities for researchers and practitioner...

This special issue on Teaching Innovations in the Field of International Business systematically explores the nature of teaching innovations and their impact. Featuring articles from the finalists of the 2021 Teaching Innovation Award organized by the Teaching and Education Shared Interest Group at Academy of International Business as well as a con...

Teaching innovations in the field of higher education (HE) have the potential to lead to better learning outcomes and higher faculty motivation. While the pedagogy literature has explored different types of teaching innovations, International Business (IB) scholars have paid relatively little attention to how these innovations are disseminated and...

This special issue welcomes conceptual work with insights on teaching philosophies and approaches that would suit integration of critical perspectives in IB education within the existing normative and other institutional constrains. In addition, both qualitative and quantitative studies are welcomed. Ideally, this special issue will create foundati...

The number of business students in higher education pursuing an international experience continues to increase due to a range of opportunities offered by universities. International experiences lead to positive outcomes for students, but there is a misalignment between the countries sending students to the U.S. and the destinations chosen by U.S. s...

The interconnected exchange between countries and continents requires a global perspective and awareness that includes international knowledge and competence. Educational programs abroad are designed to provide students with opportunities to develop these global competencies linked to numerous beneficial outcomes. Due to the large variety of outcom...

Global mindset is a set of competencies that improves the ability of individuals to operate and compete globally and was related to multiple positive individual and organizational outcomes. Increasingly, business education is expected to develop global mindset among business students. The chapter introduces global virtual teams of X-Culture project...

Working in cooperation with the AIB Teaching and Education Shared Interest Group and the Consortium for Undergraduate International Business Education, this focused issue of AIB Insights seeks to flesh out the contours of responsible IB education and promote a dialogue about enhancing the quality of IB education through an acceptance of greater acc...

Professional services firms (PSFs) have traditionally relied on professional partnerships as an organizational principle. This system was developed more than a century ago, when women did not actively pursue careers in professional services. Professional partnerships are very resistant to change and have managed to preserve their main features for...

Professional services firms (PSFs) have traditionally relied on professional partnerships as an organizational principle. This system was developed more than a century ago, when women did not actively pursue careers in professional services. Professional partnerships are very resistant to change and have managed to preserve their main features for...

Professional services firms (PSFs) have traditionally relied on professional partnerships as an organizational principle. This system was developed more than a century ago, when women did not actively pursue careers in professional services. Professional partnerships are very resistant to change and have managed to preserve their main features for...

There are important cultural differences in attitudes towards and use of electronic text communication. Consistent with Halls high-context/low-context conceptualization of culture, electronic inter-cultural communication, just as verbal inter-cultural communication, is affected by the culturally-specific assumptions and preferences of message write...

The Palgrave Handbook of Experiential Learning In International Business is a one-stop source for international managers, business educators and trainers who seek to either select and use an existing experiential learning project, or develop new projects and exercises of this kind.

This paper proposes a new perspective on the development of commitment. We propose that organizational events are evaluated relative to a person's values to determine whether the person fits or misfits the organization. The fit information is then organized into commitment elements, which reflect the extent to which workplace events fit (relative t...

Purpose ‐ The rule of law and an efficient legal system are the core factors that ensure growth in BRIC economies. Weak institutions and failures with respect to the rule of law in Russia call into question its position as one of the BRIC countries. The purpose of this paper is to propose that the legitimization of newly created formal legal instit...

Hedge funds have the potential to be significant agents of change through facilitating the enforcement of transparent and efficient corporate governance, especially in emerging markets, which are often characterised by non-transparent governance systems, rapidly changing legal frameworks and corruption. This article focuses on the case of Hermitage...

We have attempted to explain why professional service firms (PSFs) even in some of the most canonical examples (e.g., law firms) fail to follow the traditional definition. Growth in the size and geographic diversification of law firms has transformed their organizational structures and in some cases even allowed outside investment. We believe an at...

In a recent Academy of Management Review article, Professor Andrew von Nordenflycht (2010) focused on defining professional service firms (PSFs). In the article von Nordenflycht argues that past research leaves the term professional service firms either undefined or at best provides only examples, such as law firms, accounting firms, "etc." In addi...

The trend towards globalization recently has been further strengthened by the attempts of multinational corporations (MNCs) to outsource technology-based jobs to developing countries. This trend raises questions regarding appropriate performance control options available to MNCs. The current paper proposes that electronic performance monitoring (EP...