Journal of international business studies.

The top-ranked journal in the field of international business, Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) is multidisciplinary in scope and interdisciplinary in content and methodology, publishing content from across the the eight sub-domains of international business studies:

(1) the activities, strategies, structures and decision-making processes of multinational enterprises; (2) interactions between multinational enterprises and other actors, organizations, institutions, and markets; (3) the cross-border activities of firms (e.g., intrafirm trade, finance, investment, technology transfers, offshore services); (4) how the international environment (e.g., cultural, economic, legal, political) affects the activities, strategies, structures and decision-making processes of firms; (5) the international dimensions of organizational forms (e.g., strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions) and activities (e.g., entrepreneurship, knowledge-based competition, corporate governance); (6) cross-country comparative studies of businesses, business processes and organizational behavior in different countries and environments; (7) industry 4.0 in IB (e.g., the profound effects that 4.0 technologies have on the governance, the strategies, the structures and the organizational functioning of internationally operating firms); and (8) global sustainability (e.g., how ESGD performance indicators, environmental and climate change impact mitigation, and a variety of dimensions of distributional justice – the equity, diversity and inclusion movements throughout the world – affect the functioning of internationally operating firms).

Vols. for 1970-1972 issued by the School of Business Administration, Georgia State University and the Association for Education in International Business; 1973- by the Academy of International Business, with the School of Business Administration, Georgia State University, 1973-spring 1975; with the Rutgers University Graduate School of Business Administration (later, Graduate School of Management), fall 1975-winter 1984; with the University of South Carolina, College of Business Administration, 1985-1992; with the Western Business School (later, Richard Ivey School of Business), University of Western Ontario, 1993-1997; with the Georgetown University School of Business (later, McDonough School of Business), 1998-2nd quarter 1999; with the McDonough School of Business and the Copenhagen Business School, 3rd quarter 1999-

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