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IOAM Webinar: Complexity in International Business Research: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities

  • 1.  IOAM Webinar: Complexity in International Business Research: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities

    Posted 01-11-2022 10:39
    📌Our #IAOM webinar is soon approaching! This session will take place via Zoom on Tuesday, February 1st at 9.00 (Miami-EST) / 15.00 (Madrid-CET).
     
    💡 Prof. Lorraine Eden (Texas A&M University) and Prof. Bo Nielsen (University of Sydney and Copenhagen Business School) will discuss with participants their views on the complexities and challenges of IB methodologies.

    International business (IB) research is designed to explore and explain the inherent complexity of international business, which arises from the multiplicity of entities, multiplexity of interactions, and dynamism of the global economic system. To analyze this complexity, IB scholars have developed four research lenses: Difference, Distance, Diversity, and Disparity. These four lenses on complexity have created not only unique research opportunities for IB scholarship but also unique research methodological challenges. We therefore view complexity as the underlying cause of the unique methodological challenges facing international business research. We offer several recommendations to help IB scholars embrace this complexity and conduct reliable, interesting, and practically relevant research.
     


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    Juan Velez-Ocampo
    Universidad De Antioquia
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