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IB journals reviewed for SNA application
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The theory of networks has attracted increasing attention in international business (IB) research. However, despite its growing theoretical utilization, the systematic description, modelling and analysis of network relationships has been scarce in IB. The field has taken a stand in favour of conventional methodological approaches, which hinders the...
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... this does not cover the complete set of possible outlets publishing IB-related research, we believe that the selected journals are a representative of the research trends in terms of both the phenomenon of interest and the field in general. The journals included in the review are presented in Table 2. ...Citations
... Social network analysis has been widely used in the research fields of urban spatial structure, industrial clusters, government governance, international trade, etc., and gradually become a new research paradigm (Kurt and Kurt, 2020;Benítez-Andrades et al., 2020). We use the gravitational force data between districts calculated by the urban spatial gravity model as the base data for the social network analysis method. ...
The metro transportation network in large cities is one of the most important factors affecting urban spatial structure. To further understand the role of a metro network in the optimization of an urban spatial structure, the panel data of 10 main districts in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020 are selected for the study of Wuhan's metro network. The influence of metro networks on the urban spatial structure is quantified by using urban spatial gravity model and social network analysis. Three indicators-overall network density, centrality, and core-edge are selected to respectively evaluate the connectivity, accessibility, and polycentricity of the spatial structure of the city. The results show that the subway construction increases the spatial connectivity by 25%, the overall accessibility by 30.33%, and the polycentricity by 7.82%. These results demonstrate that the subway construction can significantly improve the connectivity and accessibility of Wuhan's urban spatial structure, especially the accessibility of peripheral districts, but improving polycentricity is weak. This study reveals the mechanism of action and the degree of influence of the metro network construction process on the dynamic optimization of urban spatial structure in Wuhan at different time stages from the perspective of the overall network. It provides a reference for the study of metro networks in similar cities with topographic and geomorphic diversity and enriches the research cases of such cities.
... Different topics have been raised and discussed: organizational innovation [15], innovation capability in SMEs [16], or digital innovation in knowledge management systems [17] among others. In the same way, systematic literature review about international business is copious, holding various topics of investigation: knowledge flows in multinational corporations [18], business systems theory [19], social network [20], or culture [21,22]. ...
Introduction
Innovation and international business are essential to achieve competitive advantages in currently unforeseen business environments. Today's company seeks innovation in its country of origin and abroad in order to compete globally. Thus, incorporating this concept into international companies' strategies is a main issue nowadays.
Purpose
The aim of this systematic study is to improve the current knowledge on the relationship between innovation and international business, as well as identifying innovation tendencies for corporations to acknowledge the opportunities and challenges of this area's development in the international business context.
Methodology
Despite the abundance of innovation and international business reviews, joint reviews of both of them cannot be found. This study is the first to combine the scholarly research on both topics with the systematic literature review of academic literature of 28 years, following the PRISMA guidelines and flowchart. A search was carried out in Web of Science database; 847 initial documents were obtained and, after reviewing multiple documents according to the inclusion/exclusion criteria, the results for this research work were reduced to 236 articles.
Results
The results of this research provide an overview of the knowledge structure of innovation and international business. As the main contribution, the results highlight four themes of investigation within a comprehensive and multidimensional framework: Innovative activities of multinational corporations, Global value chains, Innovation in emerging economies, and Cross-border knowledge. With an international perspective, insights from how to face innovation development in the international business context are presented.
Conclusions
There is a strong relationship between innovation and international business. These four research trends highlight the strategic importance of innovation in the international business field. Finally, the most interesting paths for future research are identified, targeting opportunities for improvement in both areas. This systematic literature review is expected to make significant contributions to both theory and practice in the field of innovation and international business.
... Another aspect that is worthy of future consideration is the potentially positive consequences of interaction derived from participation in multiple networks, both formal and informal, inside and outside the STP (local business associations, key customers, and suppliers, etc.) and the unexplored consequences of the weakening or absence of ties in informal networks. Finally, we encourage additional research within and across industries (Kurt and Kurt, 2020). ...
For innovative SMEs, acquiring knowledge resources may serve as an important source to enhance their knowledge base of management practices. In line with the resource interaction approach, an essential way to do this is to participate in informal interfirm networks. Yet, researchers have only given cursory attention to resource exchange in cooperative networks. This study examines the structural, relational, and motivational drivers that lead firms to establish informal networks of relationships to find, exchange, and combine knowledge resources. Following a mixed methods research design using interview data and social network data, the study demonstrates that informal networks play a pivotal role for SMEs to capture valuable resources increasing their knowledge stock, forge organizational standing, and gain social connectivity through reciprocity. This research implies that knowledge as a resource transcends the individual organization, which offers implications for resource interaction in inter-organizational knowledge networks and management practice.
... Digitization has opened powerful new ways for large companies to connect with global markets, resources, and partners and to pursue innovation and value creation at international business (Nambisan 2022). International business research focuses on the key decisions taken by firms while expanding their operations outside national boundaries (Kurt and Kurt 2020;Paul and Mas 2020;Srivastava et al. 2020). This increased attention on international business and marketing activities as we saw previously by large companies and researchers improves the literature review and the evolution of these two concepts. ...
This study aimed to provide an assessment of marketing on international business and to organize and classify the literature on marketing in order to clarify the importance of this tool and encourage future research in the projection of international business marketing (IBM) and the power of the ubiquity of this tool in the hands of the users. It is a bibliometric study, and this work focused on international business and marketing articles published in major international marketing, expansion, strategies, and business journals from 2000 to 2020; this topic is scattered across various journals and second data in many disciplines. The investigation reviewed and collected data on the specific paradigm of research that discusses, investigates, and evaluates the topic of IBM. The results showed a new paradigm applied to the topic of IBM and classified it into four first-order research streams: academic research, international business, international development strategies, and customers. The contribution of this study is important in order to identify new challenges and opportunities for marketers, researchers and international companies and in terms of disentangling existing contradictions, applying a new theoretical framework to make better future decisions by large companies, and providing a higher quality to new research in the context of IBM.
... With the in-depth application of network analysis methods, complex network analysis has become an emerging trend to study the business cycles synchronization between countries [21,22], and it is also an ideal tool to reveal the topological characteristics of the BCSN [23,24]. Base on the concept of graph theory and complex network theory, countries can be regarded as nodes, the business cycle synchronization linkages of each country can be regarded as the connecting edges of nodes, and thus the BCSN is formed [21]. ...
Based on the GDP constant 2010 US$ from the World Bank, this paper uses the instantaneous quasi-correlation coefficient to measure the business cycle synchronization linkages among 53 Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) economies from 2000 to 2019, and empirically studies the topological characteristics of the Business Cycle Synchronization Network (BCSN) with the help of complex network analysis method. The main conclusions are as follows: First, the BCSN density and efficiency of BRI economies are still low, and it presents a topological feature of "small world". Second, the individual characteristics of the economies in the network are obviously different. Among them, China's relative influence is significantly increased, but its betweenness centrality level is still low. Third, since the inception of BRI, the topological characteristics of BCSN of BRI economies have undergone great changes, and their topological evolution has gradually reflected the characteristic of self-stability.
... These observations are compared and in accordance with other previous study. 35 CONCLUSION SME entrepreneurs are facing the worst economic crisis in decades with COVID-19 complicating their subsistence, but it is perfect time to create opportunities to rethink entrepreneurship´s priorities in the face of crisis and in the dawn of a new normal. The priorities put to the consideration of SME entrepreneurs in this study were the result of the analysis of documents published by the several authors, but the review of other references allowed to confirm that these criteria tend to be important at present to face the pandemic and for a post-pandemic future. ...
p>COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant and multiple challenges for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). While SMEs have traditionally faced financial and non-financial crises, the pandemic has brought about additional uncertainties on how to maintain business continuity. The purpose of this paper is to examine how SMEs can mitigate against COVID-19-related crisis by examining the impacts that the pandemic has had on them through a review of 34 articles. The thematic analysis from the literature covered three overarching and inter-related challenges including: (i) cost and finance-related challenges, (ii) disruption of activities, and (iii) existential difficulties. This paper highlighted three major crises emerging out of the COVID-19 pandemic for SMEs. Cost-and finance-related challenges, disruption of SME activities amidst COVID-19 pandemic and Digital technologies. The paper’s value lies in addressing the gap between the espoused literature’s claim of the beneficial impact of new technological advancements and SMEs’ ability to survive in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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... The SNA has been used to measure the organisations' social capital, map resource dependency relations, and discover coalitions and cliques between organisations. Kurt and Kurt (2020) have explored the potential of SNA in international business (IB) research, because of two fundamental phemomena: firm internationalisation and multinational enterprises (MNEs). From the marketing perspective, SNA could detect the most influential actors to efficiently spread a message in online communities for marketing purposes (Litterio et al., 2017). ...
In the past years, research in Social Network Analysis (SNA) has increased. Initially, the research area was limited to sociology and anthropology but has now been used in numerous disciplines. The business and management discipline has many potentials in employing the SNA approach due to enormous relational data, ranging from employees, stakeholders to organisations. The study aims to analyse the research trend, performance, and the utilisation of the SNA approach in business and management research. Bibliometric analysis was conducted by employing 2,158 research data from the Scopus database published from 2001 to 2020. Next, the research quantity and quality were calculated using Harzing's Publish or Perish while VOSviewer visualised research topics and cluster analysis. The study found an upward trend pattern in SNA research since 2005 and reached the peak in 2020. Generally, six subjects under the business and management discipline have used SNA as a methodology tool, including risk management, project management, supply chain management (SCM), tourism, technology and innovation management, and knowledge management. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, the study is the first to examine the performance and analysis of SNA in the overall business and management disciplines. The findings provide insight to researchers, academicians, consultants, and other stakeholders on the practical use of SNA in business and management research.
... En este trabajo se ha optado por una visión relacional y de redes (Burt, 1976;Woolcock, 2007) del desempeño de los países, es decir, se considera que existe un beneficio para el desarrollo a partir de la multiplicidad de relaciones entre los países (Bolívar et al., 2019;Cuypers et al., 2020). De esta manera, aparte de los factores típicos requeridos para su desarrollo, un país tiene mayores oportunidades de lograr objetivos de desarrollo en la medida en que puede acceder al intercambio de mercancías, capitales y recursos con sus socios regionales (Kurt & Kurt, 2019;Woolcock & Narayan, 2000). Sobre estas relaciones, desde la teoría del capital social interorganizacional se plantea que la implicación en redes, con sus normas y la confiabilidad que generan, permiten la obtención de beneficios políticos y económicos (Lee, 2009). ...
El libro aborda los procesos productivos y las iniciativas que facilitan el funcionamiento de la economía en los países de desarrollo tardío de América Latina. Las empresas, las organizaciones y los territorios condicionan la integración económica y social en el momento actual, en el que los procesos de desarrollo son complejos en las economías emergentes y de industrialización reciente.
La importancia del libro va más allá de la conceptualización de los sistemas productivos, ya que los sitúa en el mundo real, analizando su dinámica y transformaciones. Para ello se adopta una visión interdisciplinaria (de la economía, de la sociología, de la sicología y de la antropología), y en la argumentación se sostiene que el desarrollo territorial se apoya en la cultura de las personas, de las organizaciones y de los territorios. La cultura es, también, identidad, ya que las sociedades la expresan con la producción de bienes y servicios que se venden en los mercados.
... Recent research subscribes to the view that overcoming LOO to enter a foreign network may not be a discrete event like a traditional entry but a continuous process that requires a longitudinal and dynamic perspective (Santangelo & Meyer, 2017;Vahlne & Johanson, 2017). Kurt and Kurt (2020) suggest that overcoming LOO requires firms to pay closer attention to the structural characteristics of foreign business networks in which it wants to enter; insidership in closed networks requires more resources and time than open networks but the tacit and sensitive knowledge from trustbased closed networks may be vital when distance is high. In a similar vein, Forsgren (2016) argues that existing networks may help firms overcome LOO in new networks across countries, though extensive embeddedness in current networks may also leave firms with lower resources for overcoming LOO in additional countries. ...
Recent advances in digitalization and increasing integration of international markets are paving the way for a new generation of firms to use non-traditional entry modes that are largely marginalized in previous entry mode studies. While extant research revolves around the level of resource commitment and control in foreign activities, non-traditional modes are encapsulated by the extent of embeddedness required for exploring new and/or exploiting existing resources. In particular, we draw attention to four such categories of non-traditional entry modes the literature has touched on, i.e., capital access, innovation outposts, virtual presence, and managed ecosystem. We explore the key attributes, antecedents, and strategic implications of these modes. Our paper highlights the need for enriching current entry mode research by considering a broader range of entry mode activities available to firms as well as employing new theoretical perspectives to understand the complex phenomena of internationalization.
... Também há uma falta de conhecimento sobre os mecanismos generativos que operam na evolução da rede na internacionalização da firma (Cuypers, Ertug, Cantwell, Zaheer, & Kilduff, 2020). Assim, o que está faltando na literatura não é o que as redes são, mas como e por que elas se tornam o que são (Vahlne & Johanson, 2017Kurt & Kurt, 2020). ...
... Como resultado, eles se tornam não somente mais ricos em recursos e detêm mais prestígio, como também eles ocupam posições mais centrais nas redes (Barabási, 2016). Essa dinâmica "do rico se tornando cada vez mais rico" (Merton, 1968, p. 610) explica a origem dos hubs e dos atores periféricos nas redes (Andriani & McKelvey, 2009;Kurt & Kurt, 2020). ...
... Por causa de custos, limitações de comunicação e gerenciais e idade do ator, a taxa de acumulação de relacionamentos decai ao longo do tempo. Finalmente, este artigo responde a uma chamada de pesquisa sobre esse tópico, a qual parece ter sido negligenciada (e.g., Hohenthal et al., 2014;Cuypers et al., 2020;Kurt & Kurt, 2020). ...
RESUMO Este artigo analisa a evolução na rede na internacionalização da firma enfatizando o mecanismo generativo ligação preferencial. Ligação preferencial significa que os atores mais conectados tendem a formar um maior número de relacionamentos. O artigo utiliza dados quantitativos longitudinais de um caso único, representado pela internacionalização de uma divisão operacional de uma firma multinacional norte-americana no mercado brasileiro. A análise de dados é baseada no algoritmo computacional de Clauset et al. (2009) e no PAFit, um novo método estatístico. O objetivo é identificar até que ponto a evolução da rede segue uma distribuição de lei de potência e o grau em que a ligação preferencial afeta a evolução da rede. Os resultados indicam que a evolução da rede na internacionalização da firma segue uma distribuição de lei de potência. Tal evolução é afetada pela forma sublinear de ligação preferencial. Poucos atores acumulam desproporcionalmente um elevado número de relacionamentos. A ligação preferencial não se manifesta homogeneamente na evolução da rede. Ela tem um efeito mais forte no início da rede. Este artigo contribui ao avançar uma abordagem relacional e baseada em processo da internacionalização da firma. Ele mostra que a evolução da rede na internacionalização da firma indica uma rede maior e mais esparsa ao longo do tempo. Os atores mais conectados formam hubs, sinalizando mais status, poder e recursos.
