Yair Aharoni: Behavioral Scientist

Christian Bellak

Chapter 35 in Standing on the Shoulders of International Business Giants:In Memory of Yair Aharoni, 2024, pp 459-461 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: In their “Foreword” to Yair’s 1966 book, The Foreign Investment Decision Process, Professors Raymond A. Bauer, Pearson Hunt, and Raymond Vernon note that “What is needed is not a series of insights but rather a breaking down of barriers by the creation of a new structure of theory”. This idea, certainly akin to Thomas S. Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which was already in its 6th edition in 1966, struck me when I was a doctoral student and is something you would hardly have heard even 30 years later at my university…

Keywords: International Business; Internationalization; Strategy; Service Economy; Start-Up High-Technology Companies; High-Technology; Managerial Decision-Making; Business Education; State-Owned Enterprises; Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 M1 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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