Analysing stimuli and barriers, failure and resilience in companies’ internationalization: a systematic and bibliometric review
Review of International Business and Strategy
ISSN: 2059-6014
Article publication date: 22 December 2021
Issue publication date: 23 September 2022
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to systematize and analyze the internationalization of companies in an attempt to identify the main themes explored in the literature – What does the current state of the art tell us about the stimuli and barriers, failures and resilience in the internationalization of companies is what the authors set out to answer with this research.
Design/methodology/approach
This study offers a systematic review based on the bibliometric mapping techniques of 218 articles collected from the Web of Science database between 1996 and 2021.
Findings
Furthermore, contributing to literature by the logic of stimuli, barriers failure in internationalization companies. The main conclusion is that, from the analysis, the authors can see that the scientific production in this field of knowledge has intensified in recent years, but the centrality and the search density undergo major changes.
Originality/value
The main research contributions enable a better understanding of the involvement of failure and resilience in companies re-internationalization and suggestions for future studies in this field.
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Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to the anonymous referees of the journal for their extremely useful suggestions to improve the quality of the article.
Declaration of conflicting interests: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.
Funding: The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.
Citation
Martins, R., Farinha, L. and Ferreira, J.J. (2022), "Analysing stimuli and barriers, failure and resilience in companies’ internationalization: a systematic and bibliometric review", Review of International Business and Strategy, Vol. 32 No. 4, pp. 581-601. https://doi.org/10.1108/RIBS-07-2021-0103
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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