Disciplinary analysis reveals the institutionalization of international business over seven decades, highlighting the evolutionary mechanisms of academic field legitimation.
This comprehensive historical treatment of international business (IB) as a discipline charts its intellectual development, pedagogical institutionalization, and organizational infrastructure across seven decades. Nachum and Yaprak organize their inquiry around three interdependent dimensions—thought, teaching, and institutions—arguing that only by weaving these strands together can we fully comprehend how IB emerged from economics and management to achieve recognition as a distinct scholarly domain. The result is a compelling disciplinary biography resonating beyond field specialists and offering organizational scholars a compelling case study of how academic fields evolve, consolidate, and become legitimate.
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