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Mapping international business and international business policy research: Intellectual structure and research trends

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  • Calma, Angelito
  • Suder, Gabriele

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This paper analyzes the core international business (IB) areas covered by ten IB-focused journals to date using 13,937 documents reflecting more than 300 years of combined publication history. Using bibliometric and citation analysis, it provides a systematic understanding of the current IB landscape, explicates the relevance of the future of IB research and depicts trends in this research field with emerging prevalent themes identified. The strongest themes across IB journals are performance, perspective and emerging economies/MNEs, shared strongly across UK/Europe, US and Asia-based journals. Our findings report on the prevalent research field, economy and geography, the latter analyzing the impact of author numbers and distribution, and thus, scale effects. Within this context, sole authorships are largely replaced by co-authorships, yet often on national level. We further limited the study to IB policy and found the focus centers on key themes of foreign business attraction, transnational governance and IB promotion.

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  • Calma, Angelito & Suder, Gabriele, 2020. "Mapping international business and international business policy research: Intellectual structure and research trends," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 29(3).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:iburev:v:29:y:2020:i:3:s0969593120300299
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2020.101691
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