The Space Economy (SE) is an inherently international domain, making it a compelling context for advancing research in International Management (IM) . Missions, infrastructures, and value chains span jurisdictions , cultures , and regulatory regimes , while strategic rivalry coexists with sustained cross-border collaboration .
For IM scholars, the SE offers a high-salience setting to explore core questions under unusually sharp boundary conditions. As commercialization accelerates, private actors and multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly shaping how space-based capabilities are financed, governed, ...