TY - CHAP
T1 - Chapter 1
T2 - Distance in international business studies: Concept, cost and value
AU - Verbeke, Alain
AU - Van Tulder, Rob
AU - Puck, Jonas
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Distance is a central theme in international business (IB) research. A simple search for the word "distance" in the abstracts and titles of papers published in five leading IB journals over the period 1990-2015 illustrates the importance of the topic: overall, 341 papers have addressed the phenomenon, either in their titles or abstracts (International Business Review -IBR: 89, Journal of International Business Studies -JIBS: 99, Journal of International Management - JIM: 44, Journal of World Business - JWB: 59, Management International Review - MIR: 50). In other words, two annual volumes of each of the above journals could be filled solely with papers on the topic of distance. However, our knowledge of distance, in terms of conceptual specification and consequences for IB practice, is incomplete and sometimes ambiguous.
AB - Distance is a central theme in international business (IB) research. A simple search for the word "distance" in the abstracts and titles of papers published in five leading IB journals over the period 1990-2015 illustrates the importance of the topic: overall, 341 papers have addressed the phenomenon, either in their titles or abstracts (International Business Review -IBR: 89, Journal of International Business Studies -JIBS: 99, Journal of International Management - JIM: 44, Journal of World Business - JWB: 59, Management International Review - MIR: 50). In other words, two annual volumes of each of the above journals could be filled solely with papers on the topic of distance. However, our knowledge of distance, in terms of conceptual specification and consequences for IB practice, is incomplete and sometimes ambiguous.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85041191265&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/S1745-886220170000012016
DO - 10.1108/S1745-886220170000012016
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85041191265
T3 - Progress in International Business Research
SP - 17
EP - 43
BT - Progress in International Business Research
ER -