The EIBA Doctoral Tutorial is a yearly event that takes place the day before the annual EIBA conference.

For the 18th consecutive year a Doctoral Tutorial for International Business students will be organized in conjunction with the Annual Conference of the European International Business Academy (EIBA). The 2004 Doctoral Tutorial will take place in the Grand Union Hotel in Ljubljana on 5 December, 2004 immediately before EIBA’s Annual Conference (6-7 December 2004). All participating students are required to attend the EIBA Conference.

EIBA-EIASM has delegated the organization of this Tutorial to Professor Danny Van Den Bulcke of the University of Antwerp (Belgium) who will act as Chairman.

The core faculty for the Tutorial is composed of leading scholars in the field of International Business. The 2004 Faculty consists of Peter Buckley, John Cantwell (co-chair), Yves Doz, Jean François Hennart, Rob Grosse, Lars Hakanson and Danny Van Den Bulcke (chairman). The secretariat is taken care off by Marion Hebbelynck in Brussels and Nicole Coopman during the sessions.
The first objective of the Tutorial is to provide an opportunity to doctoral students in International Business to discuss their research plans and their work in progress both with a distinguished international faculty and their colleagues.

The second purpose is to get them acquainted with the international EIBA-network of experts and colleagues working in the field of International Business.

The students who are selected to participate in the Tutorial will be requested to present a short paper about their thesis proposal. Participating students are required to also attend the EIBA Annual Conference, immediately following the Tutorial. They will benefit from a reduction on the registration fee, however. An award of approximately 500 € will be given to the student who presented the most promising thesis proposal.

For the previous EIBA Doctoral Tutorial 37 applications were received in total. The students who applied for the Tutorial came from 25 different countries and studied at universities from 20 different countries. Most students came from European universities; seven of the applicants were from Finnish universities.

Sharing and transfer of knowledge and innovation scored highest among the subjects that the students had chosen. The next group of topics included cultural and HRM issues and Strategic Alliances (including M&As).

The internationalization process and relationships between headquarters -subsidiary were tackled as well, as were a host of other topics. This year similar topics were chosen; the list of presentations can be found on:
http://www.eiba-online.org/associations/eiba/index.asp