Best Practices for IE Research

Alvesson, M and J Sandberg (2011). Generating research questions through problematization, Academy of Management Review, 36(2), 247-271.

Alvesson, M and J Sandberg (2014). Habitat and habitus: Boxed-in versus box-breaking research, Organization Studies, 35(7), 867-987.

Anderson, BS, Wennberg, K and JS McMullen (2019). Enhancing quantitative theory-testing entrepreneurship research, Journal of Business Venturing, 34(5), 105928.

Cheng, J, Henisz, W and K Roth (2009), Advancing interdisciplinary research in the field of international business: Prospects, issues and challenges, Journal of International Business Studies, 40(7), 1070-1074.

Edmondson, AC and SE McManus (2007), Methodological fit in management field research, Academy of Management Review, 32 (4), 1155-1179.

Eisenhardt, KM, Graebner, ME and S Sonenshein (2016). Grand challenges and inductive methods: Rigor without rigor mortis, Academy of Management Journal (9(4), 1113-1123.

Gephart, RP (2004), Qualitative research and the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, 47 (4), 454-462.

Lévesque, M and U Stephan (2020). It’s time we talk about time in entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 44(2), 163-184. 

Locke, K and K Golden-Biddle (1997), Constructing opportunities for contribution: Structuring intertextual coherence and ‘problematizing’ in organizational studies, Academy of Management Journal, 40 (5), 1023-1062.

Maula, M and W Stam (2020). Enhancing rigor in quantitative entrepreneurship research, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 44(6), 1059-1090.

Pratt, MG (2008), Fitting oval pegs into round holes: Tensions in evaluating and publishing qualitative research in top-tier North American journals, Organizational Research Methods, 11(3), 481-509.

Sandberg, J and M Alvesson (2011). Ways of constructing research questions: Gap-spotting or problematization, Organization, 18(1), 23-44.

Shepherd, DA and J Wiklund (2020). Simple rules, templates, and heuristics! And attempt to deconstruct the craft of writing an entrepreneurship paper, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 44(3), 371-390.

Short, JC, Ketchen JR, DJ, Combs, JG, and RD Ireland (2010), Research methods in entrepreneurship: Opportunities and challenges, Organizational Research Methods, 13(1), 6-15.

Wennberg, K and BS Anderson (2020). Enhancing the exploration and communication of quantitative entrepreneurship research, Journal of Business Venturing, 35(3), 105938.

Wiklund, J, Wright, M and SA Zahra ( 2019). Conquering relevance: Entrepreneurship research’s grand challenge, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 43(3), 419-436.

Chen, X-P (2011), Author ethical dilemmas in the research publication process, Management and Organization Review, 7 (3), 423-432.

Colquitt, J (2013), From the editors: Data overlap policies at AMJ, Academy of Management Journal, 56 (2), 331-333.

Eden, L (2010), Letter from the Editor-in-Chief: Scientists behaving badly, Journal of International Business Studies, 41, 561-566.

Honig, B, Lampel, J, Siegel, D, and P Drnevich (2014), Ethics in the production and dissemination of management research: Institutional failure or individual fallibility? Journal of Management Studies, 51(1), 118-142.

Kirkman, BL and G Chen (2011), Maximizing your data or data slicing? Recommendations for managing multiple submissions from the same dataset, Management and Organization Review, 7 (3), 433-446.

Leung, K (2011), Presenting post hoc hypotheses as a priori: Ethical and theoretical issues, Management and Organization Review, 7 (3), 471-479.

Lewis, BR, Duchac, JE, and SD Beets (2011), An academic publisher’s response to plagiarism, Journal of Business Ethics, 102, 489-506.

Martin, BR (2013), Whither research integrity? Plagiarism, self-plagiarism and coercive citation in an age of research assessment, Research Policy, 42, 1005-1014.

Bacharach, S (1989), Organizational theories: Some criteria for evaluation, Academy of Management Review, 14 (4), 496-515.

Barney, J (2018). Positioning a theory paper for publication, Academy of Management Review, 43(3), 345-348.

Bello, DC and T Kostova (2012), Conducting high impact international business research: The role of theory, Journal of International Business Studies, 43, 537-543.

Corley, KG and DA Gioia (2011), Building theory about theory building: What constitutes a theoretical contribution? Academy of Management Review, 38(1), 12-32.

Doty, DH and WH Glick (1994), Typologies as a unique form of theory building: Toward improved understanding and modeling, Academy of Management Review, 19(2), 230-251.

Fiss, PC (2011), Building better causal theories: A fuzzy set approach to typologies in organizational research, Academy of Management Journal, 54(2), 393-420.

Langley, A (1999), Strategies for theorizing from process data, Academy of Management Review, 24(4), 691-710.

LePine, JA and A Wilcox King (2010), Developing theoretical insight from reviews of existing theory and research, 35 (4), 506-509.

Okhuysen, G and J-P Bonardi (2011), The challenges of building theory by combining lenses, Academy of Management Review, 36(1), 6-11.

Rindova, V (2008), Publishing theory when you are new to the game, Academy of Management Review, 33(2), 300-303.

Shaw, SK and KG Corley (2006), Building better theory by bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide, Journal of Management Studies, 43(8), 1821-1835.

Sutton, RI and BM Staw (1995), What theory is not, Administrative Science Quarterly, 40(3), 371-384.

Thomas, D, Cuervo-Cazurra, A, and M-Y Brannen (2011), Explaining theoretical relationships in international business research: Focusing on the arrows, not the boxes, Journal of International Business Studies, 42(9), 1073-1078.

Welch, C, R Piekkari, E Plakoyiannaki, and E Paavilainen-Mäntymäki (2011). Theorizing from case studies: Towards a pluralist future for international business research, Journal of International Business Studies, 42, 740-762.

Whetten, DA (1989), What constitutes a theoretical contribution, Academy of Management Review, 14(4), 490-495.

Whetten, DA, Felin, T and BG King (2009), The practice of theory borrowing in organizational studies: Current issues and future directions, Journal of Management, 35(3), 537-563.

Zahra, SA and LR Newey (2009), Maximizing the impact of organization science: Theory-building at the intersections of disciplines and/or fields, Journal of Management Studies, 46(6), 1059-1075.

Fainschmidt, S, Witt, MA, and RV Aguilera, et al. (2020). The contributions of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to international business research, Journal of International Business Studies, 51, 455–466.

Fiss, PC (2007), A set-theoretic approach to organizational configurations, Academy of Management Review, 32(4), 1180-1198.

Schotter, APJ & Buchel, O and Vashchilko, T (2018), Interactive visualization for research contextualization in international business, Journal of World Business, 53(3), 356-372.

Schwab, A and Z Zhang (2019). A new methodological frontier in entrepreneurship research: Big data studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 43(5), 843-854.

Uy, MA, Foo, M-D and H Aguinis (2009), Using experience sampling methodology to advance entrepreneurship theory and research, Organizational Research Methods, 13(1), 31-54.

Alvesson, M (2003), Beyond neopositivists, romantics and localists: A reflexive approach to interviews in organizational research, Academy of Management Review, 28(1), 13-33.

Burgelman, RA (2011), Bridging history and reductionism: A key role for longitudinal qualitative research, Journal of International Business Studies, 42, 591-601.

Eisenhardt, KM (1989), Building theories from case study research, Academy of Management Review, 14(4), 532-550.

Eisenhardt, KM and ME Graebner (2007), Theory building from cases: Opportunities and challenges, Academy of Management Journal, 50(1), 25-32.

Guest, G, Bunce, A and L Johnson (2006), How many interviews are enough? An experiment with data saturation and variability, Field Methods, 18(1), 59-82.

Jonsen, K and KA Jehn (2009), Using triangulation to validate themes in qualitative studies, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, 4(2), 123-150.

Ketokivi, M and S Mantere (2010), Two strategies for inductive reasoning in organizational research, Academy of Management Review, 35(2), 315-333.

Klagg, M and A Langley (2013), Approaching the conceptual  leap in qualitative research, International Journal of Management Reviews, 15(2), 149-166.

McCracken, G (1988), The long interview, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

McLellan, E, MacQueen, KM and JL Neidig (2003), Beyond the qualitative interview: Data preparation and transcription, Field Methods, 15(1), 63-84.

Morgan, G and L Smircich (1980), The case for qualitative research, Academy of Management Review, 5(4), 491-500.

Rapley, TJ (2001), The art(fulness) of open-ended interviewing: Some considerations on analyzing interviews, Qualitative Research, 1(3), 303-323.

Ryan, GW and HR Bernard (2003), Techniques to identify themes, Field Methods,15(1), 85-109.

Pratt, MG (2009), For the lack of a boilerplate: Tips on writing up (and reviewing) qualitative research, Academy of Management Journal, 52(5), 856-862.

Tsang, EWK (2014), Generalizing from research findings: The merits of case studies, International Journal of Management Reviews, 16(4), 369-383.

Welch, C, Plakoyiannaki, E, Piekkari, R and E Paavilainen-Mantymaki (2013), Legitimizing diverse uses for qualitative research: A rhetorical analysis of two management journals, International Journal of Management Reviews, 15(2), 245-264.

Baron, RM and DA Kenny (1986), The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 6, 1173-1182.

Churchill, GA and JP Peter (1984), Research design effects on the reliability of rating scales: A meta-analysis, Journal of Marketing Research, 21, 360-375.

Crook, TR, Shook, CL, Maddern, TM and ML Morris (2010), A review of current construct measurement in entrepreneurship, International Entrepreneurship Management Journal, 6, 387-398.

Diamantopoulos, A and HM Winklhofer (2001), Index construction with formative indicators: An alternative to scale development, Journal of Marketing Research, 38, 269-277.

Diamantopoulos, A and JA Siguaw (2006), Formative versus reflective indicators in organizational measure development: A comparison and empirical illustration, British Journal of Management, 17, 263-282.

diStefano, C and RW Motl (2006), Further investigating method effects associated with negatively worded items on self-report surveys, Structural Equation Modeling, 13(3), 440-464.

Edwards, JR (2011), The fallacy of formative measurement, Organizational Research Methods, 14(2), 370-388.

Edwards, JR and RP Bagozzi (2000), On the nature and direction of relationships between constructs and measures, Psychological Methods, 5, 2, 155-174.

Hair, JF, Sarstedt, M, Ringle, CM and JA Mena (2012), An assessment of the use of partial least squares structural equation modeling in marketing research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 40, 414-433.

Hinkin, TR (1995), A review of scale development practices in the study of organizations, Journal of Management, 21, 5, 967-988.

Hinkin, TR (1998), A brief tutorial in the development of measures for use in survey questionnaires, Organizational Research Methods, 1, 1, 104-121.

Hult, GTM, Ketchen, DJ, Griffith, DA, Chabowski, BR, Hamman, MK, Dykes, BJ, Pollitte, WA and ST Cavusgil (2008), An assessment of the measurement of performance in international business research, Journal of International Business Studies, 39, 1064-1080.

Li, J, Ding, H, and Y Hu et al. (2021). Dealing with dynamic endogeneity in international business research, Journal of International Business Studies, 52, 339–362.

Lindner, T, Puck, J and A Verbeke. (2020). Misconceptions about multicollinearity in international business research: Identification, consequences, and remedies, Journal of International Business Studies, 51, 283–298.

MacKenzie, S, 2003, The dangers of poor construct conceptualization, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 31(3), 323-326.

Peterson, MF, Arregle, J-L and X Martin (2012), Multilevel models in international business research, Journal of International Business Studies, 43, 451-457.

Shook, CL, Ketchen, DJ, Hult, GTM and KM Kacmar (2004), An assessment of the use of structural equation modeling in strategic management research, Strategic Management Journal, 25, 397-404.

Chang, S-J, van Witteloostuijn, R, and L Eden (2010), Common method variance in international business research. Journal of International Business Studies, 41, 178-184.

Brannick, JT, Chan, D, Conway, JM, Lance, CE, and PE Spector (2010), What is method variance and how can we cope with it? A panel discussion. Organizational Research Methods, 13(3), 407-420.

Andersson, U, Cuervo-Cazurra, A and BB Nielsen (2014). Explaining interaction effects within and across levels of analysis, Journal of International Business Studies, 45, 1063-1071.

Ellis, PD (2010), Effect sizes and the interpretation of research results in international business, Journal of International Business Studies, 41, 1581-1588.

Kahiya ET (2017). Discriminant analysis in export research: An imperative for methodological rigor. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 29(1), 145-170.

Kingsley, AF, Noordewier, TG, and RG Vanden Bergh (2017). Overstating and understating interaction results in international business research. Journal of World Business, 52: 125-326.

Meyer, KE, van Witteloostuijn, A and S Beugelsdijk (2017). What’s in a p? Reassessing best practices for conducting and reporting hypothesis-testing research. Journal of International Business Studies, 48, 535–551.

Schwab, A (2018). Investigating and communicating the uncertainty of effects: The power of graphs, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42(6), 823-834.

Cavusgil, ST and A Das (1997), Methodological issues in empirical cross-cultural research: A survey of the management literature and a framework, Management International Review, 37, 1, 71-96.

Chabowski, B., Samiee, S, and GTM Hult (2017). Cross-national research and international business: An interdisciplinary path. International Business Review, 26(1), 89-101.

Chidlow, A, Plakoyiannaki, E and C Welch, 2014. Translation in cross-language international business research: Beyond equivalence, Journal of International Business Studies, 45, 562-582.

Diamantopoulos, A and N Papadopoulos (2010), Assessing the cross-national invariance of formative measures: Guidelines for international business researchers, Journal of International Business Studies, 41, 360-370.

Franke, GR and RG Richey Jr (2010), Improving generalizations from multi-country comparisons in international business research, Journal of International Business Studies, 41, 1275-1293.

Hult, GTM, Ketchen, DJ Jr, Griffith, DA, Finnegan, CA, Gonzalez-Padron, T, Harmancioglu, N, Huang, Y, Talay, MB and ST Cavusgil (2008), Data equivalence in cross-cultural international business research: Assessment and guidelines, Journal of International Business Studies, 39, 1027-1044.

Jensen, NM, Li, Q and A Rahman (2010), Understanding corruption and firm responses in cross-national firm-level surveys, Journal of International Business Studies, 41, 1481-1504.

Mullen, MR (1995), Diagnosing measurement equivalence in cross-national research, Journal of International Business Studies, 26(3), 573-596.

Bruton, GT, Zahra, SA and L Cai (2018). Examining entrepreneurship through indigenous lenses, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42(3), 351-361.

De Massis, A, Kotlar, J, Wright, M and FW Kellermans (2018). Sector-based entrepreneurial capabilities and the promise of sector studies in entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42(1), 3-23. 

Le Breton-Miller, I and D Miller (2018). Beyond the firm: Business families as entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42(4), 527-536. 

Welter, F, Baker, T, Audretsch, DB and WB Gartner (2017). Everyday entrepreneurship: A call for entrepreneurship to embrace entrepreneurial diversity, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 41(3), 311-321.