TY - JOUR
T1 - Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research
T2 - Directions for “new” research areas
AU - Delios, Andrew
AU - Li, Jiatao
AU - Schotter, Andreas P.J.
AU - Vrontis, Demetris
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2024/6
Y1 - 2024/6
N2 - A strong critique of the international business field is that it has been “running out of steam” because IB scholars have failed to engage with emerging paradigm shifts in IB practice and management theory. IB research requires rejuvenation with timely, unique, controversial, and challenging new research questions. IB scholars need to move beyond incremental improvements to existing research agendas and focus on questions that are fundamentally new to the field. With this essay, we address four pressing topics (Buckley, Doh, & Benischke, 2017), namely: (1) the resurgence of populism, decoupling, and globalization; (2) disruptive technologies and digitalization; (3) sustainable development goals; and (4) the changing power relationships between firms, and between firms and governments. Our aim is to provide direct avenues for relevant new research that challenges the existing orthodoxy across the IB field. As part of this process, we introduce the papers in this special issue.
AB - A strong critique of the international business field is that it has been “running out of steam” because IB scholars have failed to engage with emerging paradigm shifts in IB practice and management theory. IB research requires rejuvenation with timely, unique, controversial, and challenging new research questions. IB scholars need to move beyond incremental improvements to existing research agendas and focus on questions that are fundamentally new to the field. With this essay, we address four pressing topics (Buckley, Doh, & Benischke, 2017), namely: (1) the resurgence of populism, decoupling, and globalization; (2) disruptive technologies and digitalization; (3) sustainable development goals; and (4) the changing power relationships between firms, and between firms and governments. Our aim is to provide direct avenues for relevant new research that challenges the existing orthodoxy across the IB field. As part of this process, we introduce the papers in this special issue.
KW - Decoupling
KW - Digitalization
KW - Globalization
KW - International business research
KW - Sustainability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85194370172&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101552
DO - 10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101552
M3 - Short survey
AN - SCOPUS:85194370172
SN - 1090-9516
VL - 59
JO - Journal of World Business
JF - Journal of World Business
IS - 4
M1 - 101552
ER -