Abstract
This study reviews the presence of articles related to Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in Web of Science (WOS). Bibliometric analysis first reveals the trends of CEE-related articles in the areas of international business (IB), management and economics up to 2016. The results show steady growth in absolute and relative numbers after 1990, intensifying since 2010. Second, we conduct topic research using network analysis with blockmodeling. We identify a network of topics and their interrelations over time and used them to periodise the CEE-related research in IB. The most-cited CEE-related IB articles and the main citation path are also presented. The analysis adds to the discussion of how the CEE region is explored in IB research, its contributions, impacts and the challenges facing regional research in the future. In this study, a methodology and framework for performing a comprehensive bibliometric analysis on regional IB research is applied.
Highlights
Research on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)1 in the field of international business (IB) has expanded dynamically since the Iron Curtain fell, and is today seen as a forerunner of the growing and varied research on emerging markets and as a research springboard for exploring institutions' influence on business (Gelbuda, Meyer, & Delios, 2008; Kostova & Hult, 2016; Meyer & Peng, 2016)
With the transition to market economies, the CEE region became one of the most open, in turn stimulating IB research to look at the interaction of radical societal change, business development and foreign direct investment (FDI)
We obtained CEE-related IB research data from Thomson Reuters' Web of Science (WOS) bibliographic service, the standard data set underpinning the journal impact metrics found in the Journal Citation Reports and the institutional performance metrics found in InCites, considered the world's most trusted citation index for scientific and scholarly research
Summary
Research on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the field of international business (IB) has expanded dynamically since the Iron Curtain fell, and is today seen as a forerunner of the growing and varied research on emerging markets and as a research springboard for exploring institutions' influence on business (Gelbuda, Meyer, & Delios, 2008; Kostova & Hult, 2016; Meyer & Peng, 2016). Scholars who were early to notice the region's (in transition) research potential focused on testing the robustness of well-established IB theories and their boundary conditions, especially resource-based and institutional theories, while setting the stage for more refined analysis, with respect to the rapidly changing contexts (Gelbuda et al, 2008). The CEE region's recognised relevance within IB research in terms of both real-life problems and as an incentive for theorybuilding (Meyer & Peng, 2005, 2016) lacks any comprehensive bibliometric overview of studies in IB literature related to the region. Information on region-related papers using bibliometric analysis can help understand how important CEE-related research is in IB literature, and complement the efforts of Meyer and Peng (2005, 2016)
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