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Critical and mainstream international business research

Critical and mainstream international business research This paper aims to address the relationship between critical and mainstream international business (IB) research and discuss the ways forward for the former.Design/methodology/approachThe paper empirically maps critical IB scholarship by analysing more than 250 academic articles published in critical perspectives on international business (cpoib) from 2005 to 2017. The paper also includes a citation analysis that uncovers how critical IB research is recognized and discussed in mainstream IB studies.FindingsThe extant critical IB research can be broken into five main topical clusters: positioning critical IB research, postcolonial IB studies, effects of international business activities, financialization and the global financial crisis and “Black IB” and corporate social responsibility. The citation analysis demonstrates that critical IB research is rarely recognized in mainstream IB academic outlets.Originality/valueThis paper is the first to empirically map critical IB research and to measure its impact on mainstream IB research. Based on these insights, as well as discussions of the more critical voices within mainstream IB studies and the debate over critical performativity in critical management studies, ways of developing critical IB research are examined. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Critical Perspectives on International Business Emerald Publishing

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Emerald Publishing
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© Emerald Publishing Limited
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1742-2043
DOI
10.1108/cpoib-02-2019-0012
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Abstract

This paper aims to address the relationship between critical and mainstream international business (IB) research and discuss the ways forward for the former.Design/methodology/approachThe paper empirically maps critical IB scholarship by analysing more than 250 academic articles published in critical perspectives on international business (cpoib) from 2005 to 2017. The paper also includes a citation analysis that uncovers how critical IB research is recognized and discussed in mainstream IB studies.FindingsThe extant critical IB research can be broken into five main topical clusters: positioning critical IB research, postcolonial IB studies, effects of international business activities, financialization and the global financial crisis and “Black IB” and corporate social responsibility. The citation analysis demonstrates that critical IB research is rarely recognized in mainstream IB academic outlets.Originality/valueThis paper is the first to empirically map critical IB research and to measure its impact on mainstream IB research. Based on these insights, as well as discussions of the more critical voices within mainstream IB studies and the debate over critical performativity in critical management studies, ways of developing critical IB research are examined.

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Critical Perspectives on International Business – Emerald Publishing

Published: Jun 6, 2019

Keywords: Multinational corporation; International business; Citation analysis; Critical management studies; Critical performativity; Future of international business

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