TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding time in qualitative international business research: Towards four styles of temporal theorizing
AU - Hoorani, Bareerah Hafeez
AU - Plakoyiannaki, Emmanuella
AU - Gibbert, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s)
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - Time plays an integral role in understanding International Business (IB) phenomena, and so does qualitative inquiry. Despite this, time has received little attention in qualitative IB research. To rectify this, we engage in a qualitative content analysis of qualitative articles published from 1999 until 2020 in the Journal of World Business, Journal of International Business Studies, as well as the Academy of Management Journal, and Journal of Management Studies. Our findings suggest four temporal theorizing styles, namely temporal variation, temporal accumulation, temporal evolution, and temporal story. We add further granularity by distinguishing for each how time (i.e., snapshots, incremental, evolutionary, discursive), and context (detached context, descriptive context, contextual specificity, intertwined context), generate different theorizing outputs (variation, staged process, evolutionary process, (process) story). Our paper contributes by offering researchers a rich vocabulary and conceptual building blocks to engage with different temporal theorizing styles in qualitative IB research.
AB - Time plays an integral role in understanding International Business (IB) phenomena, and so does qualitative inquiry. Despite this, time has received little attention in qualitative IB research. To rectify this, we engage in a qualitative content analysis of qualitative articles published from 1999 until 2020 in the Journal of World Business, Journal of International Business Studies, as well as the Academy of Management Journal, and Journal of Management Studies. Our findings suggest four temporal theorizing styles, namely temporal variation, temporal accumulation, temporal evolution, and temporal story. We add further granularity by distinguishing for each how time (i.e., snapshots, incremental, evolutionary, discursive), and context (detached context, descriptive context, contextual specificity, intertwined context), generate different theorizing outputs (variation, staged process, evolutionary process, (process) story). Our paper contributes by offering researchers a rich vocabulary and conceptual building blocks to engage with different temporal theorizing styles in qualitative IB research.
KW - MIB
KW - Time
KW - Temporal Theorizing
KW - QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
KW - Pluralism
KW - HBE
KW - Qualitative research
KW - Temporal theorizing
KW - SUBSIDIARY
KW - ENVIRONMENTS
KW - MNE
KW - STRATEGY PROCESS
KW - CONTEXT
KW - SENSEMAKING
KW - ENTREPRENEURSHIP
KW - LONGITUDINAL EXAMINATION
KW - TECHNOLOGY FIRMS
KW - JOINT VENTURE DEVELOPMENT
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101369
DO - 10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101369
M3 - Article
SN - 1090-9516
VL - 58
JO - Journal of World Business
JF - Journal of World Business
IS - 1
M1 - 101369
ER -