Mostafa Mohamed M
Gulf University for Science and Technology, West Mishref, Kuwait.
Qual Quant. 2022 Oct 10:1-31. doi: 10.1007/s11135-022-01548-w.
International Management is a vast and multidisciplinary research domain that is heavily influenced by several other disciplines, such as Economics, Organizational Theory and Strategic Management. Based on 28,973 research articles, this study aims to analyze the knowledge structure of the international management domain from 1920 to 2019. Using computational text-based topic modeling analysis, we trace the evolution of international management knowledge by examining the major academic topics/latent themes discussed in the field. The study also diachronically visualizes the variations in topic prevalence over time. Our methodology is akin to "inductive mapping" as it is neither biased by our position nor it is guided by assumptions related to the topics we expect to find. Results indicate the existence of a wide variety of important research foci in the domain of international management. These include, among others, strategic alliances formation, international entry modes, corporate social responsibility, cross-cultural consumer behavior, technological innovation and entrepreneurship. Results also show that some topics such as "financial risk and return on investment" and "corporate social responsibility" show a declining time trend, indicating that academic research focusing on such topics was more likely to be published early on and less so recently. On the other hand, other topics such as "Emerging (East) Asian nations" and "global mergers and acquisitions" show an increasing trend, indicating that more papers were published recently. Taken together, although our findings might reflect the breadth and depth of research in international management, they might also suggest that the bounds of this field are not well defined.
国际管理是一个广阔的多学科研究领域，受到经济学、组织理论和战略管理等其他学科的重大影响。基于28973篇研究文章，本研究旨在分析1920年至2019年国际管理领域的知识结构。通过基于文本的计算主题建模分析，我们通过考察该领域讨论的主要学术主题/潜在主题来追踪国际管理知识的演变。该研究还历时性地可视化了主题流行度随时间的变化。我们的方法类似于“归纳映射”，因为它既不受我们立场的影响，也不受与我们预期发现的主题相关的假设的指导。结果表明，国际管理领域存在各种各样重要的研究重点。其中包括战略联盟的形成、国际进入模式、企业社会责任、跨文化消费者行为、技术创新和创业精神。结果还表明，一些主题，如“金融风险与投资回报”和“企业社会责任”呈现出下降的时间趋势，这表明关注此类主题的学术研究更有可能在早期发表，而最近则较少。另一方面，其他主题，如“新兴（东亚）国家”和“全球并购”呈现出上升趋势，这表明最近发表的论文更多。总体而言，虽然我们的研究结果可能反映了国际管理研究的广度和深度，但它们也可能表明该领域的边界尚未明确界定。
