scholarly journals An Assessment of the Exporting Literature: Using Theory and Data to Identify Future Research Directions

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Chabowski ◽  
Pinar Kekec ◽  
Neil A. Morgan ◽  
G. Tomas M. Hult ◽  
Travis Walkowiak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Marketing Channel ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Export Activity ◽  
Export Marketing ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Nonlinear Performance

Exporting research is an established facet of the field of international marketing. That stated, the radical increase in recent export activity necessitates a sustained research effort devoted to the topic. In this article, the authors provide a qualitative review of the core theoretical exporting areas and evaluate the exporting domain quantitatively over six decades (1958–2016). For the quantitative analysis, they use multidimensional scaling and apply established bibliometric principles to offer an understanding of the field and to provide suggestions for future exporting research. For the evaluations, the authors used data from 830 articles with 52,191 citations from 35 journals. Using cocitation analysis as the basis to evaluate the data, they propose a series of intellectual structure implications on exporting that relate to internationalization process stages, dynamic capabilities, knowledge scarcity, social networks, export marketing strategy, absorptive capacity and learning, and nonlinear performance relationships involving marketing channel relationships.

Business-IT Alignment Literature Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Jia ◽  
Nianxin Wang ◽  
Shilun Ge
Keyword(s):  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
It Alignment ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Business It Alignment ◽  
New Perspective

The purpose of this article is to portray the knowledge evolution paths of business-IT alignment (BITA) research and identify a set of important papers in the development of BITA, and elucidate the intellectual structure of this field. This study collected 309 papers published during the period 1983-2015 from the Web of Science (WOS) database. Using a variety of bibliometric and visualization analytic techniques such as citation analysis, co-citation analysis and main path analysis, this article (1) delineates the significant knowledge flows of BITA research and identifies 15 important papers in this field; (2) graphically maps the influential countries, institutions, and journals of BITA research; (3) identifies four major research themes: BITA model, measurement, antecedents, and dynamics, and visualizing the relationships among them. Based on these findings, recommendations for the future research directions have suggested. This article provides IT practitioners, executives, and scholars with a new perspective to get a better understanding of BITA.

scholarly journals Review article: A systematic review and future prospects of flood vulnerability indices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luana Lavagnoli Moreira ◽  
Mariana Madruga de Brito ◽  
Masato Kobiyama
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Flood Vulnerability ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Linear Aggregation ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The City ◽  
Equal Weighting

Abstract. This paper provides a state-of-art account on flood vulnerability indices, highlighting worldwide trends and future research directions. A total of 95 peer-reviewed articles published between 2002–2019 were systematically analyzed. An exponential rise in research effort is demonstrated, with 80 % of the articles being published since 2015. The majority of these studies (62.1 %) focused on the neighborhood followed by the city scale (14.7 %). Min-max normalization (30.5 %), equal weighting (24.2 %), and linear aggregation (80.0 %) were the most common methods. With regard to the indicators used, a focus was given to socio-economic aspects (e.g. population density, illiteracy rate, gender), whilst components associated with the citizen's coping and adaptive capacity were slightly covered. Gaps in current research include a lack of sensitivity and uncertainty analyzes (present in only 9.5 % and 3.2 % of papers, respectively); inadequate or inexistent validation of the results (present in 13.7 % of the studies); lack of transparency regarding the rationale for weighting and indicator selection; and use of static approaches, disregarding temporal dynamics. We discuss the challenges associated with these findings for the assessment of flood vulnerability and provide a research agenda for attending to these gaps.

A systematic review of innovation in family firms and future research agenda

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manzoor Ul Akram ◽  
Koustab Ghosh ◽  
Dheeraj Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Family Firm ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Future Research Directions

PurposeIn this paper, the authors have used a systematic literature review methodology of 147 journal articles published in peer-reviewed journals. The analysis includes studies based on country of origin, the periodic proliferation of studies and the methodological design of the studies. As an outcome of the review, the studies are classified on the innovation in family firms under four broad categories – innovation input, family governance mechanisms, innovation output and the external environment. Some fruitful avenues of research are outlined in this domain.Design/methodology/approachThe literature on innovation in family firms – the most dominant and ubiquitous form of organization across the world – is gaining pace. The influence of family by way controlling ownership, management and governance on, and in interaction with business acts as a complex proposition that shapes the strategic decision-making in the family firm including innovation. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to advance the understanding of innovation in family firms and provide a list of future research questions of theoretical and practical value.FindingsBased on this review, the authors provide future research directions pertaining to innovation in emerging economy family firms, effect of the institutional environment of family firm innovation as well family firms' innovativeness in the wake of pro-market reforms, different classes of ownership in family firms and innovation, family firm goal heterogeneity and innovation, and family firm dynamic capabilities and innovation.Originality/valueThe review provides a comprehensive understanding, trends and future research directions in the domain of innovation in family firms.

scholarly journals Conservation genetics as a management tool: The five best-supported paradigms to assist the management of threatened species

2021 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. e2105076119
Author(s):  
Yvonne Willi ◽  
Torsten N. Kristensen ◽  
Carla M. Sgrò ◽  
Andrew R. Weeks ◽  
Michael Ørsted ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Genetics ◽  
Population Size ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Small Population ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Evolutionary Potential ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The Relationship

About 50 y ago, Crow and Kimura [An Introduction to Population Genetics Theory (1970)] and Ohta and Kimura [Genet. Res. 22, 201–204 (1973)] laid the foundations of conservation genetics by predicting the relationship between population size and genetic marker diversity. This work sparked an enormous research effort investigating the importance of population dynamics, in particular small population size, for population mean performance, population viability, and evolutionary potential. In light of a recent perspective [J. C. Teixeira, C. D. Huber, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 118, 10 (2021)] that challenges some fundamental assumptions in conservation genetics, it is timely to summarize what the field has achieved, what robust patterns have emerged, and worthwhile future research directions. We consider theory and methodological breakthroughs that have helped management, and we outline some fundamental and applied challenges for conservation genetics.

scholarly journals Review article: A systematic review and future prospects of flood vulnerability indices

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1513-1530
Author(s):  
Luana Lavagnoli Moreira ◽  
Mariana Madruga de Brito ◽  
Masato Kobiyama
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Flood Vulnerability ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Linear Aggregation ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Uncertainty Analyses ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The City

Abstract. Despite the increasing body of research on flood vulnerability, a review of the methods used in the construction of vulnerability indices is still missing. Here, we address this gap by providing a state-of-art account on flood vulnerability indices, highlighting worldwide trends and future research directions. A total of 95 peer-reviewed articles published between 2002–2019 were systematically analyzed. An exponential rise in research effort is demonstrated, with 80 % of the articles being published since 2015. The majority of these studies (62.1 %) focused on the neighborhood followed by the city scale (14.7 %). Min–max normalization (30.5 %), equal weighting (24.2 %), and linear aggregation (80.0 %) were the most common methods. With regard to the indicators used, a focus was given to socioeconomic aspects (e.g., population density, illiteracy rate, and gender), whilst components associated with the citizen's coping and adaptive capacity were slightly covered. Gaps in current research include a lack of sensitivity and uncertainty analyses (present in only 9.5 % and 3.2 % of papers, respectively), inadequate or inexistent validation of the results (present in 13.7 % of the studies), lack of transparency regarding the rationale for weighting and indicator selection, and use of static approaches, disregarding temporal dynamics. We discuss the challenges associated with these findings for the assessment of flood vulnerability and provide a research agenda for attending to these gaps. Overall, we argue that future research should be more theoretically grounded while, at the same time, considering validation and the dynamic aspects of vulnerability.

scholarly journals Strategists on the Board in a Digital Era

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Åberg ◽  
Niloofar Kazemargi ◽  
Max Bankewitz
Keyword(s):  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Strategic Actions ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The Way

Considering the complexities and dynamics that firms are facing in a digital era, it is no exaggeration to argue that the way boards of directors contribute to strategy needs some new perspectives. In this article, we reconsider some of the commonly used notions and assumptions of board strategizing. We conceptualize a framework for board strategizing by revisiting and providing new elements to the work introduced by McNulty and Pettigrew in 1999 (Strategists on the board. Organization Studies, 20(1): 47-74. http://doi.org/10.1177/0170840699201003). Our framework highlights a number of timely board practices that have the potential to improve the way boards strategize under conditions of increasing digitalization. Further, the findings suggest that valuable strategic actions and priorities can be made by boards that use and develop dynamic capabilities as they strategize. Implications for theory and practice as well as future research directions are discussed.

Business Sustainability Indices

2018 ◽  
pp. 609-619
Author(s):  
Arunasalam Sambhanthan
Keyword(s):  
Research Effort ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Industry Clusters ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
Country Level ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Sustainability Indices

Business sustainability models and indices are useful in theorizing and measuring organizational elements of sustainability. It is often the case that there are not many models and scales out there in the literature for theorizing business sustainability. Existing sustainability models from the published literature are reviewed. The review suggests that there is not much documented research exist in business sustainability typologies. There is a considerable amount of research effort required from the applied researchers working in this area to contextualize and re-specify the business sustainability typologies to differing industry clusters such as e-learning, agriculture, manufacturing and healthcare. In addition to this the paper also reviews the existing indices available out there in the literature to measure sustainability. A summary of existing sustainability indices available to measure sustainability at country level has been and a number of business sustainability indices have been presented and followed by a discussion of future research directions.

scholarly journals Charting research on international luxury marketing: where are we now and where should we go next?

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleopatra Veloutsou ◽  
George Christodoulides ◽  
Francisco Guzmán
Keyword(s):  
Research Area ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Mapping Analysis ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Luxury Marketing

PurposeDespite luxury's increasing globalization and broadening scope via digitalization and new markets, the intellectual structure of the overall research corpus remains tenuous. This work therefore aims to provide an overview of published work on international luxury marketing and to contribute to a better understanding of the research area.Design/methodology/approachUsing a systematic approach, 1151 items (papers) were retrieved and 181 selected from the international luxury marketing field published before 2019. These items were analyzed by using various bibliometric techniques to identify the most productive countries, journals, influential authors, papers and research clusters.FindingsAlthough most of the outputs originate from business, management and marketing journals, other disciplines also research this topic. The analysis reveals an emerging field, with 85% of the published papers appearing between 2010 and 2018, which are primarily the output of US- and UK-based authors and none of whom dominates the field. The three identified keyword clusters are (1) consumers and consumption (2) tools and (3) core themes.Practical implicationsThis article contributes to our understanding of the evolution, current status and research trends of published research on international luxury marketing by presenting a mapping analysis and proposing future research directions.Originality/valueThis is the first bibliometric mapping analysis of research on the topic from its conception to 2019. It contributes insights from different research disciplines, adds to the categorization of the international luxury marketing literature and provides promising future research directions in terms of research areas and strategies.

scholarly journals Taking stock and moving forward: a systematic literature review on accounting professionalisation in China, 1980–2021

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjun Wen
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Anglo American

PurposeThis paper aims to review the research on accounting professionalisation in China to develop insights into how the research is developing, offer a critique of the research to date and outline future research directions and opportunities.Design/methodology/approachThis paper adopts a methodological approach of systematic literature review, as suggested by Tranfield et al. (2003) and Denyer and Tranfield (2009), to identify, select and analyse the extant literature on the Chinese public accounting profession. In total, 68 academic works were included in the review process.FindingsThis paper finds that the extant literature has produced fruitful insights into the processes and underlying motivation of accounting professionalisation in China, demonstrating that the Chinese experience has differed, to a large extent, from the hitherto mainly Anglo-American-dominated understandings of accounting professionalisation. However, due to the lack of common theoretical vernacular and an agreed upon focus, the extant literature illustrates a fragmented and contradictory picture, making attempts to accumulate prior knowledge in the field increasingly difficult.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper focusses only on research published in English. Consequently, the scope of review has been limited as some works published in languages other than English may be excluded.Originality/valueThis paper provides one of the pioneering exercises to systematically review the research on accounting professionalisation in China. It explores significant issues arising from the analysis and provides several suggestions for furthering the research effort in this field.

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