AIB Colleagues:

I am writing to ask if you would kindly serve as a reviewer for our annual conference, the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business (AIB).

If you agree, we will send you 2 or 3 conference papers to review, with a deadline of 14 February 2025. The conference is currently being planned as an in-person event to be held between June 28 and July 2, 2025.

It’s easy to become a reviewer. Simply complete the form here: AIB Reviewer Sign-Up. Please choose up to 3 tracks in which you want to review. The tracks are described here: AIB 2025 Call for Papers.

Two webinars will be held to help guide our volunteers through best practices for reviewing for AIB 2025. Session 1 will be held 15 January at 01:00 UTC and Session 2 will be held 16 January at 13:00 UTC. We strongly encourage all of our reviewers to sign up for one of these webinars.

Some key facts and action items to keep in mind:

• The reviewing period will begin around 20 January and end on 14 February 2025.
• Needless to say, reviewing helps support colleagues, especially younger scholars, to advance their research. Reviewing in your interest area(s) helps you become a better scholar.
• You do not need to attend the conference to be a reviewer.
• We invite new and longstanding reviewers alike.
• Please be conscientious when reviewing. The best reviews are substantive and provide genuine value to authors. One- or two-sentence reviews don’t help much.
• Feel free to circulate this message to colleagues willing and able to review.
• Excellent reviewers will be recognized at the conference and in the AIB Newsletter.

Thanks a lot for your help. We look forward to seeing you at the conference!

Srilata (Sri) Zaheer
Program Chair, AIB 2025 Annual Meeting
Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
2025chair@aib.msu.edu