by Pervez Ghauri

For the first time in the annual conference in Fribourg Switzerland, the best paper award was awarded to M.J. Mol, R.J.M. Tulder and P.R. Beije for their paper, “Antecedents and Performance Consequences of International Outsourcing”, 2005. The award includes a certificate for each author and a cheque of one thousand Euros, a contribution by Elsevier Science Limited. The winners received the award from the Editor of the International Business Review, Professor Pervez Ghauri, in the gala dinner. This will be a permanent feature in future conferences.

The best paper was selected by a committee of three EIBA board members; Professor Ulf Andersson, Uppsala University, Sweden; Professor Torben Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Professor Alain Verbeke, University of Calgary, Canada. The committee went through all the papers published in 2005 and first short-listed three possible winners before deciding on the winner. Criteria such as; quality and potential future impact on the field of international business research together with citations and number of downloads were used while selecting the winner. All papers published during the year 2006, will be considered for the next years award to be given in the next conference in Catania.

7 prizes were awarded  during the the Gala dinner  in Fribourg on Saturday, December 9, 2006:

• Distinguished EIBA Honorary Fellow of the Year Award: Karl Sauvant
  
• Gunnar Hedlund Award:
    Jon Erland Lervik, Lancaster University Management School, United Kingdom “‘Managing Matters -  
    Transfer of Organizational Practices in Multinational Companies”
  
• Best Thesis Proposal Award:
    Roger Smeets, Radboud University Nijmegent, The Netherlands, “Multinationals and Knowledge
    Spillovers”
  
• The Copenhagen Prize:
    Christian Schwens & Rüdiger Kabst, University of Giessen, "How early internationalizers learn:  
    Experience of others and paradigms of interpretation"
  
• IJoEM Best Paper on Emerging Markets Award:
    Christian Bellak & Markus Leibrecht, Vienna University of Economics . “Location Decisions of    
    Multinational Enterprises and the Preconditions for Corporate Income Tax Competition in Europe”
  
• IMR Best International Marketing Paper Award:
    Susana Cristina Lima Costa e Silva, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, “Empirical test of the trust-
    performance link in international alliances context”
  
• IBR Best Paper of the Year Award (for the first year):
    Michael Mol, Rob van Tulder, Paul Beije (2005) “Antecedents and performance consequences of 
    international outsourcing" 
   

Susana Cristina Lima Costa e Silva and Danny Van Den Bulcke

Karl Sauvant

Torben Pedersen, Christian Schwens and Rüdiger Kabst