Journal of International Business Studies, Such judgement, however, is constrained by context.

This requires connecting qualitative data evaluation with experimental reasoning. Comparing the role of a company in the eighteenth century with the nineteenth is not often possible from a single company’s archives (and it can be argued, were this to be so, we would be dealing with an outlier). Reddaway, W. B., et al. 960–973). Tilley, C. (1983). <]>>

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The manipulation of the treatment or intervention is under the control of the experimental research. Instruments of development: Randomization in the tropics, and the search for the elusive keys to economic development. Belich notes, of trying to identify ‘emigrants’ and their opinions: ‘This problem of the silent majority is, of course, endemic in the social history of ideas. Toms, S., & Beck, M. (2007).

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Linking internationalisation processes to outcomes (performance) is a missing element in our understanding—the results of the managerial decisions form an essential element of a feedback loop to further internationalisation.

Jones (1998) points out that the company archives many analysts require often do not survive—those that involve statutory obligations often do, but those involving high-level decision making, such as Board papers, often do not. Working paper No. So far this may seem very fluffy stuff. Kobrak and Schneider (2011) make a call for a renewal of historical research methods in business history, ‘reviving some basic historiographical notions’ (p. 401). Management & Organizational History,

A more careful specification of the relationship between market entry and psychic distance and an explicit acknowledgement of the role of time would allow a fully historical analysis of market entry sequencing in the Uppsala tradition. London: Chapman and Hall. Despite the difficulties of compiling archival data for a large sample of firms, the authors are able to test an innovative methodology on diffusion histories of the ‘M-form’ from the period beginning in 1950.

Since all periodization presumes a theory of change, these are linked theoretical properties (Green 1993, p. 17).

These are: (1) source criticism (here it is argued that international business researchers are insufficiently aware of deficiencies in “texts”); (2) the analysis of sequences, including time series analyses and process theorising; (3) comparative methods (not exclusive to historical research); and (4) counterfactual analyses (which are currently less utilised than in previous periods of international business theorising).
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The Kogut and Parkinson (1998) study is a successful example of ‘History Meets Business Studies’ (p. 257) and also of the application of techniques of organisational demography.

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This debate needs to be updated as it predated studies of MNEs’ foreign market servicing strategies and motives other than market-seeking.