Networks in International Business: state of the art
- Autores: Luis Miguel Bolívar Caro
- Localización: Memorias del III Congreso internacional en administración de negocios internacionales (CIANI): retos y oportunidades del desarrollo sostenible en los negocios internacionales / coord. por Julio Ramírez Montañez, 2019, págs. 608-622
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This article reviews the network perspective in international business research in view of the amount of work trying to tackle IB research problems by means of network theory as a vehicle or as a method, as well as the efforts in bridging these theoretical views at different tiers. Hence, we aim to add value through this work, by categorizing the seminal literature, exposing the research gaps and clarifying the contribution of the network view to IB problems at the individual, firm and country level networks. Our review article contents, first, a theoretical framework depicting the multi-tier nature of networks in both general organizational research and particularly in IB research. Second, from this framework we review the extant literature that aims to solve IB problems at different levels of network analysis; thus pairing a range of IB themes with network constructs. Finally, we present the main covered topics, along with gaps in the literature and unresolved questions.
