From the Editors: Experimental designs in international business research

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: Zellmer-Bruhn, Mary; Caligiuri, Paula; Thomas, David C.
• 署名单位: University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2016.12
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 399-407
• 关键词: experimental methods; international business research; research design

摘要

The question that motivated this editorial was, where are the IB experiments? The short answer is that experiments are largely absent from the IB literature; and we argue that they shouldn't be. Experimental methods offer the opportunity to significantly improve the evidence for the causal relationships in international business research in a variety of ways. In this article we highlight the value and limitations of experiments in 18 research, and explain the basic tenets of experimental design and thinking with the goal of encouraging the submission of more papers with an experimental design to JIBS.