From the Editors: Advancing interdisciplinary research in the field of international business: Prospects, issues and challenges
Journal of International Business StudiesPublished 24 August 2009Open access
Joseph L. C. Cheng, Witold J. Henisz, Kendall Roth, Anand Swaminathan
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doi: 1 0. 1 057/jibs.2009.4 1 Two decades ago, JIBS published John Dunning's presidential address at the AIB Annual Meeting in San Diego in which he made a passionate plea for a more interdisciplinary approach to international business (IB) studies. Based on a careful analysis of the major economic, social, political and institutional changes taking place at the time, Dunning (1989: 411) observed:
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