Internationalization via industry 4.0 technologies: application areas and future roadmap for international business

Saumyaranjan Sahoo (), Satish Kumar (), Debmalya Mukherjee (), Sascha Kraus (), Marina Dabić () and Raj V. Mahto ()
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Saumyaranjan Sahoo: Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur
Satish Kumar: Indian Institute of Management Nagpur
Debmalya Mukherjee: The University of Akron, College of Business
Sascha Kraus: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Economics and Management
Marina Dabić: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business
Raj V. Mahto: The University of New Mexico, Anderson School of Management

Management Review Quarterly, 2025, vol. 75, issue 4, No 16, 3443-3470

Abstract: Abstract Industry 4.0 is transforming businesses offering multinational companies a technological framework to structure their global operations. This has attracted the attention of internationalization scholars and practitioners on the use of emerging technologies for it. In this paper, we seek to consolidate and synthesize the scholarly evidence published in leading international business journals on this issue. We identified 108 articles published in eight high-quality international business journals on major themes and applications of emerging technologies for internationalization. Our analysis, using the “coupling by document” method, identified the major application areas, including internationalization of research and development (R&D) activities, international ambidexterity, IoT-enabled global value chains, reshoring and location choice, digitized governance, global smart factory, global project management, global human resource management, and international relations and cybersecurity. We end our investigation by suggesting future research avenues.

Keywords: Industry 4.0; International business; Digitization; Literature review; Artificial intelligence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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