THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AS A STUDY FIELD

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Início Publicação: 31/07/2006
Periodicidade: Semestral
Área de Estudo: Administração

THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AS A STUDY FIELD

Ano: 2010 | Volume: 5 | Número: 1
Autores: Marcos Amatucci
Autor Correspondente: M. Amatucci | [email protected]

Palavras-chave: future of international business, journal of international business studies, IB methodology, IB theory, IB scientific status

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Resumo Inglês:

The field of International Business lies at a crossroads of analytical levels, themes and
theoretical traditions, and it will probably remain at this point in the near future. This work
follows five years (2001-2006) of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) to
analyse the scope and evolution of themes, methodologies and theoretical traditions in 199
articles. After this phase, it discusses, with the help of colleagues gathered in two workshops,
the future of the area in terms of two hypotheses: the convergence hypothesis of the
dominance of a theoretical and thematic mainstream, and the divergence hypothesis of a
“theoretical quilt” configuration of the field. It concludes that the editorial preferences of JIBS
favour traditional approaches to the field and that the second “future” is the most likely to
occur, leading International Business to evolve as a social reference more than an
epistemological entity.