Evolutionary Development of Born Globals Literature During the Period of 2002–2020

Cigdem Baskici (), Yavuz Ercil () and Yunus Gokmen ()
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Cigdem Baskici: Başkent University
Yavuz Ercil: Başkent University
Yunus Gokmen: Başkent University

Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2025, vol. 16, issue 1, No 4, 100-134

Abstract: Abstract Although scholars have examined the born globals (BGs) literature, extant reviews have not yet provided a dynamic approach to trace the development of literature. In response, the study aims to define the development of BGs literature by a dynamic perspective. The study focused on the network analysis of 609 out of 1034 documents published in the period from 2002 to 2020 about BGs collected from the Web of Science™ (WoS) Core Collection (CC), owing to carrying out that some documents were irrelevant or did not contain the keywords while the manual reading of abstracts. We applied the DPRel method which uses meta-path-based semi-metric measures to examine the longitudinal relatedness between the concepts in the networks, following the relevance path of Keywords (K)-Documents (D)-Keywords (K). According to the findings, 13 concepts in 5 different periods constitute the backbone of the literature at the macro-level. There are 58 concepts feeding the mainstream at the meso-level. At the micro-level, 26 concepts enrich the literature by supporting the backbone.

Keywords: Born globals; Network analysis; Literature review; DPRel method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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