Cross-national research and international business: An interdisciplinary path

Brian R. Chabowski, Saeed Samiee and G. Tomas M. Hult

International Business Review, 2017, vol. 26, issue 1, 89-101

Abstract: Comparative cross-national research is among the oldest approaches of scientific inquiry in the social sciences. We investigate the foundations of published works in cross-national research (CNR) in international business (IB), sociology, and psychology with an eye on leveraging their rich traditions for future IB research. Our approach aims to contribute and address repeated calls for taking an interdisciplinary approach in IB. We examined published CNR in 106 scholarly journals and identified 817 articles with 51,738 citations in IB, 477 works with 30,017 citations in sociology, and 835 articles with 54,519 citations in psychology. We use metric multidimensional scaling to examine the co-citation data for each field and identify knowledge and approaches commonplace in sociology and psychology to propose future research paths in IB. In particular multilevel analysis, which is scarcely used in IB, offers the potential of unfolding new dimensions within the field. Based on the emergent results from our MDS solutions, we recommend multiple future paths for CNR, particularly with respect to IB relationships, market entry, and related domains.

Keywords: IB research; Interdisciplinary; Hierarchical linear modeling; Multi-level analysis; Market entry mode; International relationship marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2016.05.008

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