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Published in: Management International Review 6/2016

02-11-2016 | Research Article

TEMPUS FUGIT: A Hermeneutic Approach to the Internationalisation Process

Authors: Leila Hurmerinta, Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki, Mélanie E. Hassett

Published in: Management International Review | Issue 6/2016

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Abstract

This article focuses on a somewhat neglected topic in international business (IB), namely how we conceptualise time. Time is critical to many IB research areas, especially the internationalisation process. Yet the way we conceive time is all too often taken for granted, even though it has wide ramifications for the theories we develop. In this paper, we turn to the literature on the philosophy of time in order to enrich our understanding of the concept, contrasting what we term the ‘Newtonian’ and the ‘hermeneutic’ perspectives on time. We analyse the treatment of time in the two most popular internationalisation models: the I and U Models. We also offer a hermeneutic basis for understanding internationalisation processes. Our contribution lies not only in making the case as to how philosophical debates are relevant to our conceptualisation of time, but also in proposing a hermeneutical approach to theorising about internationalisation processes.
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Metadata
Title
TEMPUS FUGIT: A Hermeneutic Approach to the Internationalisation Process
Authors
Leila Hurmerinta
Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki
Mélanie E. Hassett
Publication date
02-11-2016
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Management International Review / Issue 6/2016
Print ISSN: 0938-8249
Electronic ISSN: 1861-8901
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-016-0303-x

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