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TY - JOUR
T1 - Historical social network analysis
T2 - Advancing new directions for international business research
AU - Buchnea, Emily
AU - Elsahn, Ziad
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors
PY - 2022/10/31
Y1 - 2022/10/31
N2 - Despite repeated calls for incorporating history in IB research, progress has been slow. The few existing IB studies utilizing historical approaches have relied mostly on historical narrative approaches. In addition, there is little methodological guidance on how to use historical methodologies in IB research. This article will highlight a growing methodological approach for consideration, one that demonstrates intersections across multiple disciplines through use of varied techniques, historical analysis and social network analysis (SNA) and source-bases (varied archival sources). This study will demonstrate the richness obtained from utilising historical source collections and the additional perspectives on transnational networks that can be obtained from analysing networks over longer periods. Specifically, we argue that the use of historical mixed methods SNA is suitable in addressing calls for contextual, longitudinal, multilevel, and processual explanations of IB phenomena.
AB - Despite repeated calls for incorporating history in IB research, progress has been slow. The few existing IB studies utilizing historical approaches have relied mostly on historical narrative approaches. In addition, there is little methodological guidance on how to use historical methodologies in IB research. This article will highlight a growing methodological approach for consideration, one that demonstrates intersections across multiple disciplines through use of varied techniques, historical analysis and social network analysis (SNA) and source-bases (varied archival sources). This study will demonstrate the richness obtained from utilising historical source collections and the additional perspectives on transnational networks that can be obtained from analysing networks over longer periods. Specifically, we argue that the use of historical mixed methods SNA is suitable in addressing calls for contextual, longitudinal, multilevel, and processual explanations of IB phenomena.
KW - Global networks
KW - Historical methods
KW - Mixed methods
KW - Social network analysis
U2 - 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2022.101990
DO - 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2022.101990
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85125500102
VL - 31
JO - International Business Review
JF - International Business Review
SN - 0969-5931
IS - 5
M1 - 101990
ER -