AN OVERVIEW OF 10 YEARS OF QUALITATIVE METHODS AT JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES

Sílvio Luís De Vasconcellos,Cyntia Vilasboas Calixto,Yeda Swirski De Souza,Ivan Lapuente Garrido,Jefferson Marlon Monticelli

doi:10.13058/raep.2013.v14n2.65

Abstract

<p>This paper aims to present an overview of articles published in the Journal of International Business Studies (jibs), since 2003 till 2012. According to Web of Knowledge website, jibs is the most impacting publication focused in International Business. We analyzed 498 articles in order to select papers built under qualitative basis. We found 65 articles under this premise. Firstly, we analyzed keywords under topics focusing in the entire period (2003-2012). Secondly, we analyzed whole abstracts, focusing in the last five years (2008-2012). Afterwards, we detailed keywords, objectives, strategy of research, object, industry and region where they took place. We concluded that qualitative papers are losing space in jibs. Last years, quantitative papers are serving more to confirm what we know from other studies. Paradoxically, meanwhile complex institutional environments are gaining evidence in International Business, statistics and calculi are those which have been gaining space. More qualitative studies might provide an enriching strategy for better understanding what is going on in new boundaries of IB, like emerging countries. It is a goal of jibs to expand qualitative studies; it could represent opportunities to researchers from countries less researched, like Brazil.<br /><br /></p>

Highlights

Following the expansion of international trade during last four decades, research in International Business (IB) has spread around
This paper aims to present an overview of articles published in the Journal of International Business Studies, since 2003 till 2012
Some of the most cited articles in the field mentioned above were published at jibs. jibs is aligned to theory improvement and methodological advances as stated at its website as a commitment “to publish insightful, innovative and impactful research on international business”

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Following the expansion of international trade during last four decades, research in International Business (IB) has spread around. After excluding some idiosyncratic keywords, like creolization and otherness (hung; li; belk, 2007) we categorized them in 13 generic topics: culture, emerging markets, finance/performance, individuality/ entrepreneurship issues, industry, innovation/knowledge, institutions, internationalization process, interrelation issues, methodology, resources/. STRATEGY According to Dunning (1980), the decision to turn an organization international is a strategic choice motivated by a sort of aspects, like ownership, localization and internalization This assumption is often mentioned in IB studies. Ownership and location were associated to strategic decision making by Filatotchev, Strange, Piesse, and Lien (2007: p.556) They presumed that “the entry mode and location decisions appear to be interrelated, with the parent’s equity stake in the affiliate depending inter alia upon the location an overview of 10 years of qualitative methods at journal of international business studies within China, and the favored location depending inter alia upon the equity stake”. In order to avoid an extent table of information we concentrated analysis in last five years (2008-2012)

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