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An Introduction to the Eclectic Paradigm as a Meta-Framework for the Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of International Business

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The Eclectic Paradigm

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A major aim of this book on the eclectic paradigm is to enable scholars coming to the International Business (IB) field from a cognate discipline, perhaps for the first time, to be able to connect their own way of thinking about IB issues to a framework for IB analysis that is already well established in our field. It is also hoped that this collection of chapters originally published in the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), the leading journal in the IB field, will help to remind mainstream IB scholars of how the framework of the eclectic paradigm has emerged and developed, and of the contribution that JIBS has played in this development.

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Cantwell, J. (2015). An Introduction to the Eclectic Paradigm as a Meta-Framework for the Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of International Business. In: Cantwell, J. (eds) The Eclectic Paradigm. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-54471-1_1

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