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One more time: international business in a global economy

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This paper seeks to redirect the debate on the past, present and future of international business (IB). It sets out to dispel prevailing myths pertaining to the field's disciplinary roots, its domain and underlying bases of theory and knowledge. IB is positioned as an integrative field whose competitive advantage and added value lie in the synergetic combination of global and local knowledge that is unavailable to and not imitable by its major competitors, in particular economics and strategy.

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I am indebted to the Editor-in-Chief, the Departmental Editor and the anonymous reviewers for constructive comments. The financial support of the Fisher College's CIBER is gratefully acknowledged.

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Accepted by Arie Lewin, Editor in Chief, 25 November 2003. This paper has been with the author for one revision.

An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400101.

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Shenkar, O. One more time: international business in a global economy. J Int Bus Stud 35, 161–171 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400074

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