The Development of International Business as an Academic Discipline

Abstract

This article reviews the emergence of international business (IB) as an academic discipline through an examination of IB research, curriculum, and location within the organisational structures of universities and business schools. A selective review of the literature on IB education is used to identify different approaches to the formulation of the IB curriculum and its constituent parts and principal features: internationalisation of business functions; integration of constituent subject areas; multidisciplinary and strategic orientation. This is used to derive a number of pedagogic implications for both teachers and students of IB: sequencing and ordering of the curriculum; revealing the ontology and epistemology of IB; breadth versus depth in the curriculum; emphasising a study of or for IB; locating and structuring IB within a modular programme; class room practice for delivering the IB curriculum.

A Bibliometric Approach to the Publications in the Field of International Business in the Scopus Database

“…In this sense, it is possible to recognize the transcendence of international business as an academic discipline which makes stronger with the research and the curriculums in universities for the comprehension of organizational structures. That is why a selective review of the literature on international business also allows identifying different approaches to the formulation of new matters focused on the internationalization of business, the integration of associated IBIMA Business Review 4 __________________________________________________________________________ ______________ Jose Jaime BAENA ROJAS, Camilo SÁNCHEZ GARCÍA And Duvan GRAJALES RAMÍREZ (2020), IBIMA Business Review, DOI: 10.5171/2020.213756 areas and, finally, the understanding of multidisciplinary and strategic orientation; all of this, within this complex discipline (Laughton, 2005). A complexity that precisely consists in the fact that international business is a discipline, nowadays in progress, which besides is based on many other fields such as marketing, accounting, management, among others, generating a relevant debate within scholar community about the challenges in regard the identity of this study.…”

The Impact of a College-Educated Police Force

“…According to the authors, the evolution of strategic management as a discipline in the past years has a contribution to a deeper understanding of strategy development. The discipline incorporates different topics and research methodologies that are fundamental in data collection and analysis, strategic planning and prioritizing, and the execution of strategies (Guerras-Martína, Madhokb, & Montoro-Sánchez, 2014; Cox, Daspit, McLaughlin, & Jones, 2012;Lauhton, 2004). According to Guerras-Martína et al (2014), strategic management plays an important role in helping managers/leaders and strategic management teams to understand the macro and micro levels of analysis thus enabling a wider understanding of the correlation between the firm and its environment and the individuals and their relations within the organization.…”

“…These concepts highlight the importance of utilizing strategic management as a discipline in the development of strategies for business application (Guerras-Martína et al, 2014). Accordingly, Lauhton (2004) and Guerras-Martína et al (2014) assert that the academic community interest in strategy research indicates the importance of strategic management. Utilizing the information selection from studying the disciplines among, others association to business strategy development and execution offers a broader perspective that fosters a deeper understanding of how to develop an effective strategy.…”

Analyzing the Structure of the International Business Curriculum in India

“…Or is it simply the internationalization of the different business functions? IB has been declared as an eclectic set of related disciplines and interdisciplinary with a holistic and integrated approach (Dunning, 1993), a multilayered and co-evolutionary discipline (Zettinig & Vincze, 2008), a multidisciplinary and strategic orientation (Laughton 2005), and a strategic nature (Rugman & Hodgetts 1995). Peng (2009) has given a unified framework for IB based on two core perspectives: (a) the institution-based view and (b) the resource-based view.…”