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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
   Long run business culture Haggerty (2012), Jones (2000) and see text
   Combining comparative data: historical, geographical sectoral Becuwe et al. (2012) ‘the first globalization’
4. Counterfactual analysis Impact of foreign direct investment on host country Steuer (1973), Buckley and Artisien (1987) (European hosts “South”)
   Impact of FDI on source country Cairncross (1953) (UK), Hufbauer and Adler (1968) (US), Reddaway et al. (1968) (UK), Buckley and Artisien (1987) (European investors ‘North’)
   Impact of railways Fogel (1964), Casson 2009