THE IMPACT OF JOURNALS AND AUTHORS ON INTER- NATIONAL BUSINESS RESEARCH: A CITATIONAL ANALYSIS OF JIBS ARTICLES

Abstract. In this paper we use citational analysis to examine the influence of individuals and disciplines on international business research. We collected citational data over the ten-year period 1984 to 1993 from every issue of the Journal of International Business Studies. We found that management, economics, marketing, and finance disciplines have had significant influence on international business research and identified researchers such as Dunning, Porter, Vernon, Casson, Rugman, and Hofstede as having made significant contributions to international business research