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1. Research Methods in International Business: Challenges and Advances

verfasst von : Bo Bernhard Nielsen, Lorraine Eden, Alain Verbeke

Erschienen in: Research Methods in International Business

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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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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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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Titel: Research Methods in International Business: Challenges and Advances
verfasst von: Bo Bernhard Nielsen
Lorraine Eden
Alain Verbeke
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Research Methods in International Business
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-22112-6

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

Copyright-Jahr: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22113-3_1