In spite of both positivistic and instrumental research, the reliability of measuring the degree of internalization of a firm remains speculative. We collected data on nine attributes of seventy-four American manufacturing MNCs. Alpha, factor, and frequency analyses revealed a linear combination...

Some scholars have suggested that international business (IB) research suffers from a “narrow vision.” This paper tests this thesis by extending principles of the cognitive sciences to study the ontological and epistemological features of IB research from, 1970 through, 1997. Operationally,...

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The absence of systematic assessment of IB's performance as a reference discipline prolongs questioning of the contribution that IB scholarship makes to other business fields: put simply, do IB journals export more ideas to allied disciplines than they import from them? Difficulty in evaluating...