PhD Graduate Nominated for the 2017 AIB Dissertation Award
AIB is the largest academic association in international business, and this is the first time for a PhD graduate of the School to be awarded the honour.
Xiaocong Tian, PhD graduate of Department of Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School was awarded a finalist of the 2017 Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson Academy of International Business (AIB) Dissertation Award.
Tian’s award-nominated dissertation is titled “A Text Analytic Approach to Study Host Country Nationalist Sentiments and Multinational Enterprise (MNE) Responses during National Conflicts”. It addresses the big question of “how can MNE subsidiaries use rhetorical strategies to mitigate the influence of host country nationalist sentiment during national conflicts?” Her dissertation suggests that MNEs respond distinctively to different types of host country nationalist sentiment. It has been published on Volume 17 Issue 3 (2017) of AIB Insights.
AIB is the largest academic association in international business, and this is the first time for a PhD graduate to be awarded the honour. Tian would like to thank her dissertation supervisor, Prof. Daphne Yiu from Department of Management for her continuous guidance and supports, and her dissertation committee members Prof. Dora Lau, Prof. Hong Ying-yi and Prof. William P Wan for helping her improve the dissertation. Tian is now an Assistant Professor of Department of Strategy and Innovation at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
The AIB Dissertation Award (formerly known as Richard N. Farmer Dissertation Award) recognises the joint importance of the environment of international business and the nature of multinational enterprise. The award is designed to reward superior doctoral dissertations in the field of international business.