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Trends in International Strategic Management Research From 2000 to 2013: Text Mining and Bibliometric Analyses

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This study provides an overview of the international strategic management literature from 2000 through 2013. By drawing from a sample of 736 articles, we employ bibliometric and text mining analyses in identifying 10 distinct subfields of international strategic management research. Our study serves as a resource for future research by shedding light on how trends in international strategic management research have evolved over time. The results of our analysis reveal a substantial increase in the volume of international strategic management articles published in high quality journals over this period of time. Specifically, our results demonstrate that certain subfields of international strategic management research, such as business strategy formulation, internal coordination, decision-making, corporate strategy implementation, international diversification, and national culture, are increasing in scholarly interest. However, other subfields of international strategic management research, such as political risk, corporate strategy formulation, business strategy implementation, and strategic alliances, have either stabilized or recently declined in scholarly interest. We also identify and report the most prominent theories employed within each subfield. We find that institutional theory, the resource-based view, organizational learning theory, social network theory, and the knowledge-based view have been the most frequently employed theories in the international strategic management literature.

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  1. ISM and global strategy are synonymous (Peng and Zhou 2006, p. 492).

  2. Peng and Zhou (2006, p. 494) argued that these journal choices were “supported by influential (and generally non-controversial) surveys in both international business… and strategic management…”.

  3. The ISI 5 year impact factors for these three journals for 2013 were: the Journal of Management Studies (4.74), the Journal of International Management (2.78), and International Business Review (2.33).

  4. We employed Peng and Zhou’s (2006) categorization of 16 subfields in ISM research. However, we eliminated subfield clusters that consisted of less than five articles. The clusters not included in the bibliometric analysis were environmental/industry analysis, boards of directors, structure, corporate culture, strategy typologies, and turnaround/decline (see Peng and Zhou 2006). This decision was based on the notion that articles in a particular subfield should represent at least 1.0 % of all articles in the sample for valid data analysis.

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White, G.O., Guldiken, O., Hemphill, T.A. et al. Trends in International Strategic Management Research From 2000 to 2013: Text Mining and Bibliometric Analyses. Manag Int Rev 56, 35–65 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-015-0260-9

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