Innovation in international business research: a call for multiple paradigms

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Sullivan, Daniel P.; Daniels, John D.
• 署名单位: University of Delaware; University of Miami
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400400
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 1081-1090
• 关键词: paradigms; INNOVATION; CHAOS THEORY; nonlinear; ngos; theoretical pluralism

摘要

Scholars disagree on IB's domain and future prescription, yet agree that research will engage topics dealing with dynamic change and hard-to-explain phenomena. This paper builds on these views, endorsing a multiparadigmatic perspective that complements IB's scientific and humanist paradigms with that of chaos theory. The latter, we argue, is instrumental in studying the non-normal patterns of nonlinear, far-from-equilibrium systems. We illustrate our ideas in the context of NGOs.