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Yair Aharoni Eulogy: Academy of International Business Fellows Business Meeting, June 1, 2021

In: Standing on the Shoulders of International Business Giants

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  • Arie Y. Lewin

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Yair was an outlier. He was an academic entrepreneur. He was trained in accounting, rose to the rank of captain in the Israeli Defense Force, and married his direct report Mira, the love of his life. We know him for his seminal PhD dissertation at Harvard Business School on the decision to internationalize. Yair’s seminal qualitative study was about the firm internal logic of appropriateness to internationalize and about reconciling the decision as the consequences reveal themselves. It is a rich example that preceded the formal development of the theory of the Logic of Appropriateness and of the Logic of Consequences by March and Olsen and others, which was still to come. Yair also made important contributions in other areas of IB, including the internationalization of state-owned enterprises and small and medium enterprise ecosystems, and was early to recognize the up-and-coming service-sector economy, generally with a strong contextual focus on his beloved underdeveloped home country economy. His 2013 Academy of International Business Insights article exemplifies his profound and all-inclusive perspective of international business scholarship…

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  • Arie Y. Lewin, 2024. "Yair Aharoni Eulogy: Academy of International Business Fellows Business Meeting, June 1, 2021," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Arie Y Lewin & Ravi Ramamurti & Elizabeth L Rose (ed.), Standing on the Shoulders of International Business Giants, chapter 1, pages 5-6, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    Keywords

    International Business; Internationalization; Strategy; Service Economy; Start-Up High-Technology Companies; High-Technology; Managerial Decision-Making; Business Education; State-Owned Enterprises; Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises;
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    • M16 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - International Business Administration
    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration

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