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From: Historical Research Approaches to the Analysis of Internationalisation
Historical research method
Areas of use in international business
Examples
1.
Source criticism
Executive interviews
Buckley et al. (2007)
Archival research
Jones (2000), Decker (1994, 2013)
Company statements
Moss (1997)
Government policy pronouncements
Buckley and Pearce 1991
2.
Time series analyses
Long period investigations
Kogut and Parkinson (1998) on Chandler’s multi division hypothesis
Organisational demography
Birth and death of subsidiaries; Kogut (2009)
Computable general equilibrium models
O’Rourke and Williamson (1999)
Process research
Internationalisation studies—see those reviewed in Welch and Paavilainen-Mantymaki (2014)
3.
Comparative methods
‘Natural experiment’ in a multinational company
Kogut and Zander (2000) on Zeiss company in East and West Germany