Prestigious award to POREEN research

The international conference “AIB US-Northeast Chapter Special Meeting on China” was held last week, 21-24 May 2014 in Beijing and Tianjin in Beijing Technology and Business University and Tianjin Foreign Studies University, respectively. PhD candidate Katiuscia Vaccarini, University of Macerata, Italy and Prof. Louise Curran, Toulose Business School, France took part in the conference and presented their research within the framework of Poreen about the following topics: “Psychic Distance and its Role as a Determinant of FDI in the Chinese Marketplace” (Katiuscia Vaccarini) “How Emerging Country MNEs (EMNEs) Address the Liability of Foreigness: The Solar Panel Case” (Louise Curran). In this occasion the Best Student Paper Award was assigned to “Psychic Distance and its Role as a Determinant of FDI in the Chinese Marketplace” by Katiuscia Vaccarini. Congratulations to Katiuscia!

More info about the conference at http://www.aibne.net/ and http://aib.msu.edu/events/chaptermeet.asp The Programme is available 2014 05 21-25 Program_final_katiuscia.