Recent Developments in International Management Research: A Review of 20 Top Management Journals

Abstract

This review analyzes recent trends in the international management (IM) literature from 1996 to 2000. The 271 articles located in 20 top management (and management related) journals are categorized into 12 distinct topics: (1) the global business environment; (2) internationalization; (3) entry mode decisions; (4) international joint ventures; (5) foreign direct investment (FDI); (6) international exchange; (7) transfer of knowledge; (8) strategic alliances and networks; (9) multinational enterprises; (10) subsidiary-headquarters relations; (11) subsidiary and multinational team management; and (12) expatriate management. Research in each of these areas is presented and linkages between the areas are reviewed. Concluding thoughts are offered relating to the pervasiveness, methodologies, and levels of analysis of IM research, as well as potential areas for future research.

International new ventures as “small multinationals”: The importance of marketing capabilities

“…First, given its high relevance, numerous empirical studies have addressed the entry mode decision (Sarkar & Cavusgil, 1996;Brouthers & Hennart, 2007;Canabal & White, 2008), the third most researched field in international management (Werner, 2002). However, little effort has been made in the field of international entrepreneurship.…”

Ranking International Business Institutions and Faculty Members Using Research Publication as the Measure

“…such studies, among others, include the ranking of (a) authors and universities publishing iB articles (Morrison and inkpen 1991;trevino et al 2010); (b) authors, institutions and discipline content of published articles in the Journal of International Business Studies (JiBs) between 1970(inkpen and Beamish 1994; (c) authors and disciplines of articles published in JIBS between 1984and 1993(chandy and Williams 1994; (d) international business schools based on the measure of faculty publication (Kumar and Kundu 2004); and (e) schools based on publication data between 1995 and 2004 for four leading international business journals (chan et al 2006). the role and importance of ranking studies is well documented in literature spanning a variety of disciplinary areas, from sociology (espeland and sauder 2007; Sauder and espeland 2009), logistics (carter et al 2009), Strategy (Baden-Fuller et al 2000), Finance (Zivney and Bertin 1992), economics (Grove and Wu 2007), Management (Devinney et al 2008;Pisani 2009;Wedlin 2007;Werner 2002), Marketing (caruana et al 2009;Linton 2004;Mitra and Golder 2008), information systems (Willcocks et al 2008), Education (Sweitzer and Volkwein 2009), Research Methods (Mills et al 2006), to International Business (Macharzina et al 2004;Macharzina et al 1993). in addition to their broad disciplinary appeal, ranking studies have consistently appeared in prestigious journals for a long period of time.…”

“…this has led to some ranking studies focusing on single journals [e.g., coudounaris et al (2009) on Management International Review, inkpen andBeamish (1994) on Journal of International Business Studies], and others to include a broad range of business and management journals that international business/management research has permeated (e.g., lu 2003;Pisani 2009;Trevino et al 2010;Werner 2002;Werner and Brouthers 2002).…”

Effective International Expansion Strategies of Developing Countries: Some Preliminary Evidence From the Turkish Manufacture and Export of Television Sets

“…Although the literature in international business research is extensive and continues to grow (Werner, 2002), Axinn and Matthyssens (2002) have argued that most theories on international strategies focus on explaining the behaviour of large firms from developed countries. They do not provide the same insights into the behaviour of firms from developing nations in the international market place.…”