Editors' Comment on Research Platforms: Point-Counterpoint on Multinationalization and Performance

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10.1111/j.2042-5805.2012.01044.x

Abstract

With this issue, Global Strategy Journal introduces a new format for articles that will be offered across the Strategic Management Society family of journals. The society's publications committee has chosen to call these invited articles ‘research platforms.’ Research platform content in the SMS journals provides a base for identifying and opening up new areas of research that involve multiple potential research questions. The goal of research platform content is to help scholars identify opportunities to advance the discipline of scholarship in strategic management and in global strategic management in the specific case of GSJ. The research platform concept is explained in more detail in the next section, but as applied in this issue, it supports the Point-Counterpoint discussion between two outstanding scholars of global strategy and international business, Farok Contractor and Alain Verbeke, that follows this comment. In this case, the topic is multinationalization and performance (alternatively internationalization and performance—we use the terms interchangeably in this comment), one of the mainstays of studies of multinational enterprises and their strategies. GSJ has previously published on the topic (Wiersema and Bowen, 2011; Hennart, 2011; Kirca et al., 2012; Oh and Contractor, 2012) and includes an independently submitted and blind-reviewed article on the topic in this issue (Fisch, 2012). However, a complete list of articles on the topic across all strategy and international business journals would undoubtedly run into the hundreds—hence, this seems a good topic to discuss as a research platform. We offer our editorial thoughts on M-P research at the end of this comment.

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Publication Date

11-8-2012

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Copyright © 2012 Strategic Management Society

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