CIBS was established in 1991. The center aims to promote research in international business as well as to offer support to the college in developing courses and in promoting international conferences, seminars, colloquia, and symposia on various international business topics. It also established a specialized library to increase and maintain a comprehensive international business information database in order to provide computing and administrative services to researchers and the business community. The center comprises a director, an assistant research officer, a research assistant, and a secretary. Overhead is covered by direct funding from the institution.
Activities are mainly self-financing.
First South China International Business Symposium Held in Macau in collaboration with the University of Macau in March 1994. Held in Hong Kong in collaboration with the Department of Management and Business Studies, City University of Hong Kong in December 1995.