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1. Research Methods in International Business: Challenges and Advances

Authors : Bo Bernhard Nielsen, Lorraine Eden, Alain Verbeke

Published in: Research Methods in International Business

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

High-quality research methods underpin strong scholarship in international business (IB) research. This book is a testimony to the maturity of the field and highlights both how far we have come and how far we still have to go. In this chapter, we first reiterate the importance of applying sound research methods while conducting IB research, and then proceed to identify a number of particularly salient methodological challenges facing scholars in IB research. We next review some key points in the Commentaries and Reflections that accompany the JIBS articles selected for this volume. Our chapter ends with a set of general recommendations to IB scholars in the pursuit of continuous high-quality scholarship.

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Footnotes
1
The nationality of authors was determined by the university affiliation at the time of publication. Thus, this number does not take into account the multicultural backgrounds of authors in the same country. Hence, this number is likely very conservative and the real increase potentially much higher.
 
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The authors of each original article were invited to write a Further Reflections note on their original piece. Some authors chose to do this; others decided not to, inter alia, because they felt there was little new to report in substantive terms.
 
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Metadata
Title
Research Methods in International Business: Challenges and Advances
Authors
Bo Bernhard Nielsen
Lorraine Eden
Alain Verbeke
Copyright Year
2020
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
Research Methods in International Business

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-22112-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-22113-3

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22113-3_1