The Academy of International Business (AIB) is the scholarly society for international business (IB) research. Founded in 1959, it now has more than 3,400 members in roughly 90 countries and is administered from the International Business Center at Michigan State University's Broad College of Business in East Lansing, Michigan. AIB is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, not a commercial publisher: its three publications are produced in partnership with Springer Nature (Palgrave Macmillan imprint) for the two journals, and self-published for AIB Insights.

If you are targeting an AIB outlet you are almost certainly aiming at the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), the field's flagship. This guide covers how the three outlets differ, what open access costs, how review works, and how to submit.

AIB's portfolio is small and clearly differentiated, so the choice is usually obvious once you know whether your contribution is theoretical, policy-facing, or practitioner-facing.

• Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) - the society's flagship, published on AIB's behalf by Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature) since 1970. Nine issues a year. Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is about 10.2. Scope covers multinational enterprise strategy, cross-border governance, international entrepreneurship, global value chains, and cross-cultural management.
• Journal of International Business Policy (JIBP) - launched in 2018 as a quarterly, also with Palgrave Macmillan. It targets the intersection of IB research and public policy: trade and investment regimes, taxation, sustainability regulation, and economic statecraft.
• AIB Insights - a quarterly, fully open-access outlet published directly by AIB. Short articles (typically well under journal length) on teaching, practice, and emerging IB issues. No article-processing charge.

Beyond the journals, AIB runs 13 geographic chapters with their own regional conferences, shared-interest groups, and the AIB Annual Meeting.

The two Springer-published journals are hybrid: you can publish free of charge under the standard subscription route, or pay an article-processing charge to make your article immediately open access under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY by default).

Because both journals sit inside the Springer Nature portfolio, many transformative ("read and publish") agreements cover the APC for authors at participating institutions - Jisc in the UK, Projekt DEAL in Germany, and dozens of national consortia elsewhere. Check the ESAC registry or ask your library before paying out of pocket. Springer Nature's green self-archiving terms also apply, so the accepted manuscript can normally be deposited in a repository after the title's embargo.

• Model: double-anonymized review at both JIBS and JIBP. Remove identifying information from the manuscript file before submission.
• Desk rejection is common at JIBS. Editors screen heavily for theoretical contribution and fit with the IB domain; a well-executed study with no distinctly international theoretical mechanism is a typical desk reject.
• Developmental culture: AIB runs paper development workshops at the Annual Meeting and at chapter conferences, and JIBS editors publish regular editorials on what the journal is looking for. Reading recent editorials before submitting is unusually worthwhile here.
• Revision cycles at JIBS are typically two to three rounds, and the full process commonly runs a year or more from submission to acceptance.

1. Confirm fit. Read the journal's statement of scope and a handful of recent articles; for JIBS, read the current editor's editorials on contribution.
2. Format the manuscript. Both journals use APA (7th edition) referencing. Follow the title-specific author guidelines for structure, abstract, and length.
3. Anonymize. Strip author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and self-identifying citations from the main file.
4. Submit via Editorial Manager. JIBS and JIBP both run on Springer Nature's Editorial Manager platform; AIB Insights uses its own submission route.
5. Respond thoroughly to reviews. Point-by-point response letters are the norm and carry real weight in the second-round decision.

AIB's journals follow Springer Nature's editorial policies, which are built on COPE guidance covering authorship, plagiarism, data availability, competing interests, and corrections or retractions. Expect to supply a data-availability statement and to disclose funding and conflicts at submission. AIB itself also maintains a code of ethics for its members and conference participants.

SciSpace hosts formatting templates for AIB journals, so you can draft directly in the required structure and reference style rather than reformatting after the fact. Pair this with the journal's own author guidelines, which remain the authoritative source for submission requirements.