Best Paper Award received at the 2024 AIB Meeting in Seoul, Korea
Seoul, July 2024 - We are thrilled to announce that the paper, "Futures Thinking and Arts – Fostering Creativity for a Sustainable World," co-authored by UNESCO Chairholder Antje Bierwisch and Marina Schmitz from IEDC-Bled School of Management, has been honored with the CUIBE Award for Best Paper on International Business Education at the 2024 Academy of International Business (AIB) Meeting in Seoul, Korea!
This award recognizes our common efforts in blending futures thinking and the arts to inspire innovative solutions for a sustainable future. We are grateful to the selection committee from CUIBE schools, including Joseph Rottman, Kiyohiko Ito, and David Sprott, for acknowledging this work.
We congratulate Antje Bierwisch and Marina Schmitz as well as the other finalists for their outstanding contributions in the field of international business education:
- Kajari Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Management, Indore, for "Cross-Cultural Teaching in International Management Classrooms: Incorporating Post Modernist Paradigm"
- David Wernick, PhD, Florida International University, and John D Branch, University of Michigan, for "The Belfast Distillery Company: Reviving an Iconic Spirits Brand and Taking It Global"
It's inspiring to see such innovative and impactful work being recognized. We look forward to continuing our efforts in fostering creativity and sustainability through interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Antje Bierwisch and Marina Schmitz (in picture) have been honored with the CUIBE Award for Best Paper on International Business Education at the 2024 Academy of International Business (AIB) Meeting in Seoul, Korea. © AIB / Marina Schmitz.