Decade Award Research Articles

Reflections on the 2023 JIBS Decade Award: Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy

Reflections on the 2023 JIBS Decade Award: Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy

Globalizing research on global cities and international business

Living up to the expectations of the JIBS Decade Award, Goerzen, Asmussen, and Nielsen’s 2013 paper not only introduced the literature on global cities to the international business (IB) community but continues to be generative. In their “Retrospective and a Looking Forward” paper 10 years later, the authors highlight megatrends about people, places and things, and new contexts and alternative perspectives, and they encourage further new ways of thinking about global cities and IB. This commentary expands upon their framework of three overlapping circles of global issues, global organizations, and global locations, by drawing especially from recent experiences in the U.S. and research in economic geography and allied fields. Facing global issues of climate change, human rights, health, housing, and the impacts of digital technologies on work, cities offer prospects of responding to these challenges, a context for multinational enterprises (MNEs) to consider. Against the backdrop of large-scale global migrations of unskilled, mostly contract, workers to global cities in developed economies, recruitment agencies and advocacy groups for migrants are global organizations as important as MNEs. Finally, the fluidity of physical boundaries, as illustrated by city-regions, world regions beyond traditional Western-centric perspectives, and intra-national variations, is key to analyzing global locations.

Discourse in Billboard Woman of The Decade award: an actantial analysis

Examining how the meaning is made needs not only a description of how grammatical choices are categorized and explain the most used categories to directly grasp implied meaning but to see how humans use language to place narrative elements to configure the body of a story. The speech delivered by Taylor Swift as she entitled Woman of the Decade by Billboard music award in 2019 used to demonstrate this scheme. Halliday’s transitivity system is applied to see how it first works to realize the narrative that is directed by the actantial roles as suggested by Greimas’s narratology which then develops a discourse. Linguistic evidence in this speech is found to support the six actant roles filling three axes. The axis of desire puts the speaker herself as the subject pursuing the right to own and control her art in music with fair revenue flow in an inclusive work environment as the object. The axis of communication puts her experience, fans, and music as the sender to the quest that benefits the receivers who are the female singers and the younger generation. The axis of power insists on persistence, technology, social media, and peer support as the enabling aspect overcoming the opponent which are detractors, old scheme contracts in unregulated private equity, toxic male privilege, and harsh criticism led by impossible standards.

The JIBS 2022 Decade Award: What drives corporate social performance? The role of nation-level institutions

The JIBS 2022 Decade Award: What drives corporate social performance? The role of nation-level institutions

Reflections on the 2021 AMR Decade Award: Navigating Paradox Is Paradoxical

Reflections on the 2021 AMR Decade Award: Navigating Paradox Is Paradoxical

The JIBS 2021 Decade Award: Theorising from case studies: Towards a pluralist future for international business research

The JIBS 2021 Decade Award: Theorising from case studies: Towards a pluralist future for international business research

International business studies: Are we really so uniquely complex?

Articles in Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) and elsewhere have argued that international business (IB) is a uniquely complex field. We offer an alternative perspective and evidence that IB is not so uniquely complex compared to organizational behavior, strategic management studies, and entrepreneurship. We argue that viewing IB as uniquely complex is likely a result of what a vast body of social psychology research has uncovered and labeled false uniqueness bias: the tendency for people to believe that they are unique compared to others. We discuss selective accessibility and focalism as underlying psychological mechanisms of this bias. We acknowledge advantages of claiming uniqueness, but argue that it is now more beneficial and realistic to highlight similarities. Doing so will allow IB to import and export theories and methods and thereby make IB borders even more permeable. In turn, increased permeability is likely to lead to further theoretical progress that will benefit IB research, practice, and its positive impact on organizations and society even further. To illustrate advantages of not exaggerating IB’s uniqueness, we use JIBS Decade Award winners as exemplars of studies that are admired and impactful precisely because of their focus on similarities rather than unique complexity.

The JIBS 2020 Decade Award: Unraveling the effects of cultural diversity in teams: A meta-analysis of research on multicultural groups

The JIBS 2020 Decade Award: Unraveling the effects of cultural diversity in teams: A meta-analysis of research on multicultural groups

On the Theory of Organizational Path Dependence: Clarifications, Replies to Objections, and Extensions

This article reflects on our article of 2009, “Organizational path dependence: Opening the black box,” which received the Academy of Management Review’s Decade Award in 2019. We review how the arti...

The JIBS 2019 Decade Award: The Uppsala internationalization process model revisited: From liability of foreignness to liability of outsidership

The JIBS 2019 Decade Award: The Uppsala internationalization process model revisited: From liability of foreignness to liability of outsidership

Current Interest in the Theory of Organizational Path Dependence. A Short Update on the Occasion of the 2019 AMR Decade Award

This discussion paper reports and reflects on the reception of our article Organizational path dependence: Opening the black box, which was published in 2009 in the Academy of Management Review and granted the AMR Decade Award in 2019. While we were invited by the editor of the journal to discuss the criticism evoked by that paper, to re-examine our original propositions in the light of advanced insights and to outline new avenues for future research on organizational path dependence, in this discussion paper we report in some detail and comment on the citation landscape of our original AMR piece.

Reflections on the 2018 Decade Award: The Meaning and Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility

We reflect on our 2008 article, “‘Implicit’ and ‘Explicit’ CSR: A Conceptual Framework for a Comparative Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility,” first recalling its origins. We contextua...

The theoretical evolution and use of the Uppsala Model of internationalization in the international business ecosystem

The Uppsala Model – typically viewed as an internationalization process model, an internationalization stages model, or a sequential internationalization model – has served as a theoretical underpinning in the international business literature since Johanson and Vahlne’s (J Int Bus Stud 8(1):23–32, 1977) article incorporated thoughts by researchers at Uppsala University in one all-encompassing model. Major updates to the model were published in 2009 and 2017 by the original authors. Our work examines what has now become the time-tested and Decade Award–winning 2009 version of the Uppsala Model relative to the original model in 1977. We also provide an outlook for international business research within the scope of the 2017 version of the model. This evaluation and dive across times into the nuances of the Uppsala Model capture aspects of the model’s theoretical and empirical power, as well as its limitations within today’s international business ecosystem. (The international business ecosystem is defined as the organisms of the business world – including stakeholders, organizations, and countries – involved in exchanges, production, business functions, and cross-border trade through both marketplace competition and cooperation.) In the process, we push the theoretical boundaries of the model and provide a unique connection to marketing thought.

The JIBS 2018 Decade Award: Comparing capitalisms: Understanding institutional diversity and its implications for international business

The JIBS 2018 Decade Award: Comparing capitalisms: Understanding institutional diversity and its implications for international business

The dubious role of institutions in international business: A road forward

Our commentary returns to the conundrum of how institutions matter in international business (IB) by revisiting the 2018 JIBS Decade Award article by Jackson and Deeg (2008) on Comparing Capitalisms. We first synthesize their main insights around institutional diversity and track its significant impact within IB and other management fields. We then suggest three main takeaways that could move Jackson and Deeg’s agenda further in terms of developing a more nuanced approach to institutions in IB. We close with suggestions for future research and urge IB scholars to be more cautious when drawing on different strands of institutions theory.

Opportunities Lie in the Demand Side: Transcending the Discovery-Creation Debate

Academy of Management ReviewVol. 43, No. 4 DialogueOpportunities Lie in the Demand Side: Transcending the Discovery-Creation DebateStratos Ramoglou and Eric W. K. TsangStratos Ramoglou() University of Southampton and Eric W. K. Tsang() University of Texas at DallasPublished Online:11 Oct 2018https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2018.0239AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsDownload CitationsAdd to favoritesTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail View articleREFERENCESAlvarez, S. A., & Barney, J. B. 2007. Discovery and creation: Alternative theories of entrepreneurial action. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 1: 11–26. Google ScholarAlvarez, S. A., Barney, J. B., McBride, R., & Wuebker, R. 2014. Realism in the study of entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Review, 39: 227–231.Link , Google ScholarAlvarez, S. A., Barney, J. B., McBride, R., & Wuebker, R. 2017. On opportunities: Philosophical and empirical implications. Academy of Management Review, 42: 726–730.Link , Google ScholarBerglund, H., & Korsgaard, S. 2017. Opportunities, time, and mechanisms in entrepreneurship: On the practical irrelevance of propensities. Academy of Management Review, 42: 730–733.Link , Google ScholarBraver, L., & Danneels, E. 2018. Propensities return us to the discovery-creation debate about entrepreneurial opportunities. Academy of Management Review, 43: 812–815.Abstract , Google ScholarCasson, M., & Wadeson, N. 2007. The discovery of opportunities: Extending the economic theory of the entrepreneur. Small Business Economics, 28: 285–300. Google ScholarDavidsson, P. 2015. Entrepreneurial opportunities and the entrepreneurship nexus: A re-conceptualization. Journal of Business Venturing, 30: 674–695. Google ScholarDavidsson, P. 2017. Entrepreneurial opportunities as propensities: Do Ramoglou & Tsang move the field forward? Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 7: 82–85. Google ScholarFoss, N. J., & Klein, P. G. 2017. Entrepreneurial discovery or creation? In search of the middle ground. Academy of Management Review, 42: 733–736.Link , Google ScholarKirzner, I. M. 1973. Competition and entrepreneurship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Google ScholarRamoglou, S., & Tsang, E. W. K. 2016. A realist perspective of entrepreneurship: Opportunities as propensities. Academy of Management Review, 41: 410–434.Link , Google ScholarRamoglou, S., & Tsang, E. W. 2017a. In defense of common sense in entrepreneurship theory: Beyond philosophical extremities and linguistic abuses. Academy of Management Review, 42: 736–744.Link , Google ScholarRamoglou, S., & Tsang, E. W. K. 2017b. Accepting the unknowables of entrepreneurship and overcoming philosophical obstacles to scientific progress. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 8: 71–77. Google ScholarShane, S. 2012. Reflections on the 2010 AMR Decade Award: Delivering on the promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research. Academy of Management Review, 37: 10–20.Link , Google ScholarShane, S., & Venkataraman, S. 2000. The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research. Academy of Management Review, 25: 217–226.Link , Google ScholarFiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited bySocial Objectivity and Entrepreneurial OpportunitiesRuss McBride and Robert Wuebker10 January 2022 | Academy of Management Review, Vol. 47, No. 1 Vol. 43, No. 4 Permissions Metrics in the past 12 months History Published online 11 October 2018 Published in print 1 October 2018 Information© Academy of Management ReviewDownload PDF

2017 Decade Award Invited Article Reflections on the 2017 Decade Award: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Financial Crisis

This essay reflects on my 2007 article, “Why Would Corporations Behave in Socially Responsible Ways? An Institutional Theory of Corporate Social Responsibility,” which received the 2017 Academy of ...

International entrepreneurship research versus international business research: A false dichotomy?

International entrepreneurship (IE) research draws from work in both international business (IB) and general entrepreneurship. It examines, inter alia, entrepreneurial behaviour when crossing borders (first stream), and makes international comparisons of entrepreneurship as found in different countries and regions (second stream), see Wright and Ricks (1994). 1 Two influential IE articles have been bestowed with the JIBS Decade Award, namely Oviatt and McDougall (1994) and Knight and Cavusgil (2004). Both articles suggested the need for new theory to explain the empirical phenomenon of ‘early internationalization’. These papers developed the concepts of International New Venture (INV), and Born Global (BG), respectively, and stimulated a lively debate on early internationalizing companies. Oviatt and McDougall defined an INV as a: … business organization that, from inception, seeks to derive significant …

The JIBS 2017 Decade Award: The determinants of Chinese outward foreign direct investment

The JIBS 2017 Decade Award: The determinants of Chinese outward foreign direct investment

Reflections on the 2016 Decade Award: Incorporating Context in Organizational Research

This is a reflection on my 2006 article, “The Essential Impact of Context on Organizational Behavior,” which received the 2016 Academy of Management Review Decade Award. I review some studies suppo...