I am beyond thrilled, grateful and humbled to share that our 2012 Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) paper with George Serafeim on "What drives corporate social performance? The role of nation-level institutions" won the JIBS Decade Award for 2022.

The award is is designed to recognize the most influential paper published in the JIBS ten years prior to the award. It will be officially presented to the recipients at the annual Academy of International Business (AIB) conference which is to be held in Miami, July 6-9 2022.

In recommending the award-winning article, the committee noted that, “This article is the most cited article published in JIBS in 2012.” It stands out for several other reasons as well, and the committee made the following observations:

“First, it is topical and timely, addressing a critical issue of concern to the broad global society on environmental and climate protection and more aggressive and conscious actions by MNEs to tackle this issue in the present day. Second, this study is thought-provoking, establishing a macro (country-level) and micro (firm-level) link that crosses and integrates multiple disciplines such as institutional economics, political science, cultural research, and institutional theory. Third, this study is theoretically sound, with robust and exceptional theory development. The article draws on appropriate theoretical lenses from various fields, which reminds us that research needs to be skillfully and systematically grounded in expository theoretical perspectives, including theory from outside IB. “Fourth, this article is methodologically rigorous, offering excellent research design, longitudinal data, multilevel analysis, and comparative insights. It uses a sample of firms from 42 countries spanning seven years, and constructs an annual composite corporate social performance (CSP) index for each firm based on social and environmental metrics.

“Finally, this study is exemplary, exhibiting ways of IB research to contribute to both our scholarly community and the business/public society. This article unveils the mechanisms through which nation-level institutions within national business systems affect MNEs’ corporate social performance.”

Original article: https://lnkd.in/d5-KXbrw
JIBS full announcement: https://lnkd.in/djgz9_gh