Best Paper/Reviewer Awards

2019

NACA Best PhD Paper
Prioritizing Publics with the Most Political Public Relations Impact: An Investigation of US-China Trade War and Social Media Discussion
Ruonan Zhang and Nicky Chang Bi

Best Paper Award
Dyadic Political Relations and Chinese Outward Direct Investment
Antonia Hmaidi

Best Reviewer Awards
Lorenzo Compagnucci & Dominique Lepore

2018

Naca Best PhD Paper
Finnish-Chinese investment negotiation: power positioning and search for common ground
Santa Stopniece

Best Reviewer Award
Paul Ross & Lorenzo Compagnucci

Emerald Best Paper Award
Chinese acquisitions of Made in Italy firms – The acquisition of a premium manufacturing firm in the automotive sector
Allessandra Vecci

Chinese Foreign Economic Engagement in Africa: The Location Decision of Chinese Multinationals
Gunessee Saileshsingh & Minghai Zhou

2017

Best Reviewer Award
Hongjuan Zhang, Tianjin University, College of Management and Economics, CN
Yulia Muratova, Aarhus University, Management, DK
Timon Immanuel Haasis, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Economic Geography, DE
Jane Du, National University of Singapore, East Asian Institute, SG

The Nominees for Emerald Best Paper Award are

Effects of Trade Facilitation Measures on Trade Between China and Countries along “One Belt, One Road”
Juan Zhang, Zhouhong Wu

Government influence and the internationalization of emerging market firms,
Fernando Angulo-Ruiz, Albena Pergelova, William Wei

Relational Competence vs. Local Isomorphism: Strategic Choices of EMNEs in Advanced Economies,
Liang WANG, Hongjuan ZHANG, Xiaohua YANG

Willingness to Work for Emerging Multinationals,
Jianhong Zhang, Chaohong Zhou, Désirée van Gorp, Guangbin Zhang

The Political Economy of Chinese Investment in “One-Belt, One-Road (OBOR)” Countries,
Ka Zeng

Chinese Emerging Market Multinationals’ Globalization to Developed Markets: A Qualitative Analysis,
Rui Torres de Oliveira, Daniel Rottig

What Attracts China’s Contracts to Latin America? An Empirical Study of the Pattern and Determinants of Chinese Contracts,
Yi Feng, Zhijun Gao, Wanjun Jiang

2016

Naca Best PhD Student Paper
Neoemi Ferracuti, Uni Macerata, Italy
Trade and FDI: Challenges and Opportunities for China and Europe in the healthcare sector

Emerald Best Paper Award
Qiang Zha, York University, UK
The Discourse of a Chinese Model of the University: a critical review

Best Reviewer
Louise Curren, Toulouse Business School, France

2015

NACA Best Paper Award
“Does Social Capital Work The Same Way In China and The West?”

Hongjuan Zhang, Tianjin University, China
Liang Wang, University of San Francisco, USA
Rong Han, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, China

“New Key Success Factors In the Management of Post-Acquisition Integration: Evidence from Chinese Firms’ Outward Acquisition of European Firms”
Ai Qi, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom/Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Emerald Best Paper Award
“Entrepreneurs’ Political Ties and Firm Performance: the Contingent Effects of Institutional Environment and Innovation Strategy”
Shibin Sheng, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Yuan Cheng, Tsinghua University Beijing, China

2014

Ping Lv, Francesca Spigarelli: Going Green: Chinese OFDI In the European Renewable Energies Sectors
Ping Lv (School of Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) and Francesca Spigarelli (University of Macerata, Department of Law, Italy)

2013

Venhaus, Marc – Power Shift to the East? American Hegemony and China’s Ascent in Times of Global Financial & Monetary Crises
PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Global Politics of the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

2012

Yang, Xiaohua – University of San Francisco – Revisit the Institutional Influences on the rise of Made-in-China Multinationals

2009

He, Xingmin – Northumbria University, UK – Market Orientation, Export Channel Selection and Export Perfomance: Evidence from China