Manchester Business School is making a major contribution to the development of comparative and international business research through CIBER. This Centre is dedicated to the understanding of how business strategies, capabilities and structures vary and change within and across different countries and institutional contexts.

Our academic expertise extends across Europe including Eastern Europe, to China, Japan, other parts of East and South East Asia, Latin America, Australasia, South Africa and the USA and we collaborate with leading researchers across the world. Our research focuses on two core research themes: 1) Institutional regimes, business models and development of organisational capabilities in different societies, 2) International Business, economic development and emerging markets.

Members of the centre have been awarded research grants from the British ESRC, the British Academy, the European Commission, the European Science Foundation, DFID, the German Academic Exchange Service, Japanese JBIC and other agencies. The results of their research have been published in leading scholarly journals, research monographs and book chapters from major academic publishers. They are on the editorial boards of many academic journals such as Asian Business and Management, Business and Politics, Competition and Change, Critical Perspectives on International Business, International Business Review, International Journal of Emerging Economies, Journal of Institutional Economics, Journal for East European Management Studies, Journal of Asian Business, Journal of World Business, Research in International Business and Finance, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, and have taken leading roles in the development of major scholarly societies such as the Academy of International Business, the British Academy of Management, the European Group for Organization Studies, the Euro-Asia Management Studies Association, the Society for the Advancement of Socio-economics. They have also held Visiting Professorships at major universities in Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and the United States. Furthermore, members of the centre are engaged in collaboration with international organisations, such as UNCTAD.