Outstanding International Business Research: Nature of the Best International Business Dissertations

Aggarwal, Raj; Petrovic, Victor; Ryans, John K.; Zong, Sijing

doi:10.1108/1525383x200800001

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“…The inherent complexity in the IB discipline is typically linked to its complexity as a set of empirical phenomena (Toyne and Nigh, 1998), rather than to difficulties in systematizing and integrating IB knowledge. The apparent theoretical heterogeneity tends to be viewed as lack of dull rigidity and dogmatism, and a reflection of the broadness in substantive focus and of appreciative inclusiveness in IB (Aggarwal and Petrovic, 1998;Seno-Alday, 2010;Wright and Ricks, 1994).…”

Section: Structural Changes and Identificationmentioning

confidence: 98%

What's happening to international business?

Michailova

Tienari

2014

Critical Perspectives on International Business

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Purpose – This paper aims to outline different views on international business (IB) as an academic discipline and looks into how IB scholars can cope with challenges to their disciplinary identity when stand-alone IB departments are merged with other departments such as management, marketing or strategy in business schools and universities. Design/methodology/approach – The article offers a critical reflection on the development and future of IB as a discipline. The two authors are an IB and a Management scholar, both of whom were engaged in recent departmental mergers at their respective business schools. While the authors do not analyze these particular mergers, their experiences are inevitably interwoven in the views they express. Findings – Mergers of stand-alone IB departments with other departments bring to light the nature of the IB discipline as a contested terrain. The article discusses how these structural changes challenge the disciplinary identity of IB scholars. It contributes, first, to discussions on the development of IB as a discipline and, second, to understanding identities and identification during major organizational change events in academia. Research limitations/implications – The authors suggest that the threat of marginalization of IB in the context of business schools and universities necessitates a move beyond the “big questions” debate to a critical self-examination and reflection on IB as a discipline and as a global scholarly community. Originality/value – The article offers a critical view on current processes and challenges related to IB as a discipline and an academic community.

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Section: Structural Changes and Identificationmentioning

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What's happening to international business?

Michailova

Tienari

2014

Critical Perspectives on International Business

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“…Analyses of disciplinary academic research through the use of citations, author and institutional appearances, surveys, and impact are fairly common in the literature (see Nerur, Rasheed and Natarajan (2008) for a recent example from strategic management and Aggarwal, Petrovic, Ryans and Zong (2008) for notable international business researchers based on best dissertation nominations and impact). Single journal studies of authorship and manuscript contributions have increasingly become more frequent (see for example Cleary andEdwards (1960), Weaver (1975), Geistfeld and Key (1986), Clark (1995), and Meyer and Rigsby (2001).…”

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Looking back twenty‐three years: An analysis of contributors and contributions to thejournal of borderlands studies, 1986 (volume 1, number 1) to 2008 (volume 23, number 2)

Pisani¹,

Reyes

Garcia

2009

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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We review the contributors and contributions to the Journal of Borderlands Studies from the journal's inception in 1986 through volume 23, issue 2 (2008). In these 45 individual issues of the JBS, 419 authors have contributed 270 research papers. These authors are affiliated with 150 institutions in 25 countries. Additionally, these authors write from 40 different disciplinary perspectives from Accounting to Urban Planning with Economics, Geography, Political Science and Sociology most heavily represented. Authorship in the Journal of Borderlands Studies is open to faculty of all ranks and multidisciplinary in representation. While the journal has made a concerted effort to publish papers concerning borders on every continent (with the exception of Australia), articles that are geographically focused on North American borders make up more than 72% of published manuscripts.

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“…A publication is a publication, and a citation is a citation, whether the Social Science Index recognises it or not. Similarly, unlike Aggarwal et al (2008), we did not limit the analysis to publications in top journals in the field.…”

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The research productivity of the AIB Farmer Award finalists

O’Connell

Rugman

2013

Multinational Business Review

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2014),"Forty years of internalisation theory and the multinational enterprise", Multinational Business Review, Vol. 22 Iss 3 pp. 227-245 http://dx.Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by emerald-srm:448207 [] For AuthorsIf you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -This paper aims to analyze the research productivity and impact of the finalists of the AIB best dissertation award, now titled the Buckley and Casson Award, but from 1987 to 2012 the Farmer Award. Specifically, this paper examines whether there is a relationship between winning the best dissertation award and subsequent publication productivity and impact. Relationships between academic institution and institutional geographic location and finalists are also examined. Design/methodology/approach -The paper examines 25 years of citation counts and the number of publications in Google Scholar of Farmer Award winners and finalists of the AIB best dissertation award from inception in 1987 to 2009, with cited publications as a measure of productivity and citations as a measure of impact. Top performers in productivity and impact are identified, and the averages of winners and non-winners are analyzed in aggregate, over time and per year. Data on finalists' institution and geographic location of institution are analyzed to describe the importance of location and institution to the award. Findings -It is found that the overall average citations of the winners of the award is less than that of the non-winners, and that in the large majority of years the non-winners have an average citation count higher than that of the winners. However, taking averages in five year increments shows more mixed results, with non-winners performing better in two periods and winners performing better in two periods, with the remaining period being split as to research productivity and impact. Originality/value -Aggarwal et al. in this journal summarized a variety of data on Farmer Award finalists from the 1990s to gain insights on institutions represented by finalists, the publication record of finalists, and content of dissertations, among other characteristics. This paper updates some of the insights from that paper by examining data on aw...

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Outstanding International Business Research: Nature of the Best International Business Dissertations

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

What's happening to international business?

What's happening to international business?

Looking back twenty‐three years: An analysis of contributors and contributions to thejournal of borderlands studies, 1986 (volume 1, number 1) to 2008 (volume 23, number 2)

The research productivity of the AIB Farmer Award finalists

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