Staff and doctoral students of CIBUL have received a number of prestigious awards and prizes which are listed below.

2011 Honorary Doctorate

Professor Peter Buckley has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. 

The University awards the Viipuri prize which Professor Buckley won in 2006. The degree will be awarded in June 2012.

2010 Cheung Kong Scholar

Professor Peter Buckley was awarded the Cheung Kong Scholar Chair Professor in the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing

2010 Sino British Fellowship Trust Award

Jeremy Clegg and Hinrich Voss were awarded a certificate from the Sino British Fellowship Trust for their research project on "Greenhouse Gas Emision Reductions".

2010 Academy of International Business UK (AIB) Ireland Palgrave Award

Mario Kafouros, Jeremy Clegg and Peter Buckley won the Palgrave Award for the best competitive paper. "Exploiting Knowledge Externalities in the Global Economy: The Role of International Depth and Breadth"

2010 Academy of International Business UK (AIB) Ireland Neil Hood and Stephen Young prize

Daniella Fjellstrom a CIBUL PhD Student won the Neil Hood and Stephen Young prize for the most original new doctoral work.

2008 The British Academy of Management (BAM) Best Paper Award in International Business

Dr Mario Kafouros from CIBUL won the British Academy of Management (BAM) 2008 Best Paper Award in International Business for his paper "The Determinants of Innovation Performance in China" (co-author: Dr Chengqi Wang).

2008 Academy of Management International Management Division, Booz Allen Hamilton Strategy and Business Eminent Scholar in Management Prize

Professor Peter Buckley was awarded Academy of Management International Management Division, Booz Allen Hamilton Strategy and Business Eminent Scholar in Management Prize at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting Anaheim, California.

2008 One of five Promising Dissertation Proposal Awards at the Academy of Management 2008 meeting in Anaheim

Andreas Moosdorf, a PhD student in CIBUL, was awarded by the Academy's International Management Division one of five Promissing Dissertation Proposal Awards at the Academy of Management 2008 meeting in Anaheim, California. Thesis title: "The determinants of international knowledge transfer effectiveness' Conceptual advances and empirical verification".

2008 First Prize at the Fourth PhD Students Consortium in International Business Administration

Andreas Moosdorf, a PhD student in CIBUL, won the first prize at the fourth PhD Students Consortium in International Business Administration at Texas A&M University. Thesis title: "An investigation of the impact of societal and organisational culture on knowledge transfer".

2007 The European Academy of International Business (EIBA) Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis Proposal

Nikolaos Papageorgiadis, CIBUL PhD student, was the (joint) winner of the 2007 EIBA Best Doctoral Thesis Proposal award. Thesis title: "The Effect of International Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Enforcement on International Business : the Case of Licensing".

2007 The Neil Hood and Stephen Young Prize for the Most Original New Work

Yi Wang, CIBUL PhD Student, was awarded the Neil Hood and Stephen Young Prize for the Most Original New Work at the Doctoral Colloquium at the AIB UK & Ireland Annual Conference 2007. Thesis title: "FDI Spillovers in China: Regional Technological Spillovers and Local Competition".

2007 First Prize at the Third Annual PhD Students Consortium in International Business Administration

Nikolaos Papageorgiadis, CIBUL PhD student, was awarded first prize at the Third Annual PhD Students Consortium in International Business Administration, hosted by the Texas A&M International University at Laredo in conjunction with the Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM) and the Graduate School of Business Administration and Leadership (EGADE), Mexico. The prize was awarded in recognition of the quality and potential of his doctoral research and for his presentation. Thesis title: "The design of an index to measure the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights".

2006 Viipuri Prize for Strategic Management and Business Economics

Professor Peter Buckley has been chosen as the third recipient of the Viipuri Prize in Strategic Management and Business Economics, for his "outstanding record in the field of international business research". The annual Viipuri Prize is awarded by the Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland. Prof. Buckley received the award at a ceremony held there on September 7th 2006. The previous two Viipuri Prize awardees were David Teece from Berkeley University, USA and James March from Stanford University, USA.

2004 Michael Z. Brooke Doctoral Prize

Dr Chen Meng was awarded the Michael Z. Brooke prize at the Academy of International Business UK Chapter Conference 2004. Thesis title: "The Evolutionary Entry Strategies of Foreign Banks in China".

2003 Gunnar Hedlund Award for best doctoral thesis

Dr Simon Harris was awarded the Institute of International Business Dissertation Award in Memory of Gunnar Hedlund, Stockholm School of Economics. Thesis title: "National Values and Strategy Formation by Business Leaders".