Dear friends and colleagues,
The New Year has come early at International Business Review with the publication of the February 2024 issue (volume 33, issue 1). Happy reading!
The issue starts with not one, but two, excellent Perspective articles. The first Perspective is authored by Bernhard Dachs, Sara Amoroso, Davide Castellani, Marina Papanastassiou & Max von Zedtwitz on “The internationalisation of R&D: past, present and future.” The authors discuss major trends that will shape the internationalisation of business R&D in the future. They suggest that new scientific discoveries will provide new opportunities to innovate; the growing scientific capabilities in emerging economies will create new hot spots for relevant knowledge; new research activities will emerge from the need to combat climate change; and that digital technologies (including artificial intelligence) will further facilitate coordination and knowledge exchange within MNEs and help to create new products and services.They conclude that IB research should bring nation-states back into the analysis as actors, not as mere locational factors, and build on its rich tradition of embracing multifaceted approaches and transcending intellectual boundaries and explore the dynamics of MNE R&D internationalisation.
The second Perspective is authored by Stewart Miller, Fiona Moore & Lorraine Eden on “Ethics and international business research: considerations and best practices.” The authors emphasize that ethical research matters; it enables researchers to trust each other and their findings, and provides a basis for society’s trust in the research. They offer guidance to help IB researchers avoid some common ethical pitfalls and to promote best ethical practices. To this end, they identify ethical considerations (mistakes and bad habits) that can occur when applying quantitative or qualitative research methods that involve collecting and analyzing data in IB research. They also identify ethical best practices for data collection and analysis.
The issue continues with four regular articles on international trade (trademarks; product innovation; export assistance; and country-pair psychic distance); two on corporate social responsibility (dissemination in GVCs; costs of equity); and three on HRM in cross-cultural settings (global virtual teams; language ideologies; female career progression). The issue concludes with articles on advertising expenditure and happiness; foreign subsidiary performance; family firms and cross-border acquisitions; and corruption and intrapreneurship.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our authors, our reviewers and our readers for their contributions to the success of the journal, and wish everyone a happy and productive New Year.
Best wishes
Roger Strange & Fang Lee Cooke (IBR Editors-in-Chief)
International Business Review
Volume 33, Issue 1, February 2024
Perspective Articles
The internationalisation of R&D: Past, present and future
Bernhard Dachs, Sara Amoroso, Davide Castellani, Marina Papanastassiou & Max von Zedtwitz
Article 102191
Ethics and international business research: Considerations and best practices
Stewart R. Miller, Fiona Moore & Lorraine Eden
Article 102207
Regular Articles
Using trademarks to fend off import competition: Evidence from the top R&D-spending companies
Lorena M. D’Agostino & Stefano Schiavo
Article 102206
Oksana Kantaruk Pierre, Raluca Mogos Descotes & José Pla-Barber
Article 102197
A problematization review of export assistance: Debates and future directions
Eldrede T. Kahiya
Article 102202
Wolfgang Messner
Article 102201
Laura Kirste, Marc Oberhauser & Dirk Holtbrügge
Article 102218
Wolfgang Breuer, Till Trauzettel, Torbjörn Müller & Astrid Salzmann
Article 102194
A configurational approach for analyzing cultural values and performance in Global Virtual Teams
Faruk Ţahin, Vas Taras, Fatih Çetin, Ernesto Tavoletti, Duysal Askun & Liviu Florea
Article 102204
Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen, Claudine Gaibrois & Natalie Victoria Wilmot
Article 102189
Hélčne Langinier, Aline Pereira Pündrich & Akram Al Ariss
Article 102174
Wolfgang Messner
Article 102203
Multinationals’ intraregional geographic expansion and foreign subsidiary performance
Naoki Ando
Article 102208
Family firms and the mixed gamble perspective in cross-border acquisitions: A study of Indian firms
Mohammad Fuad, Vinod Thakur, Chinmay Pattnaik & Rajesh Jain
Article 102205
Corruption and intrapreneurship
F. Javier Sánchez-Vidal, M. Camino Ramón-Llorens & Maurizio La Rocca
Article 102173
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Roger Strange
Professor of International Business
Editor-in-Chief,
International Business Review
University of Sussex Business School, Room 107A, Jubilee Building
Brighton BN1 9SL, United Kingdom
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