Seminario de investigación que se va a realizar el próximo 3 de diciembre a las 12:30, en el aula P06 (1er piso de la Facultad de economía), en el marco del Doctorado de Dirección de Empresas y en el Máster en Estrategia de Empresa.
The field of international business (IB) is still rather young. As IB continues to develop, and moves toward more theoretical and empirical rigor, this seems like a good time to think more carefully about our approach to testing theory. In this paper, we outline a perspective on the testing of theories and their associated hypotheses.
We argue that the current approaches to theoretical testing reflected in published research in international business – indeed, management studies in general – are potentially subject to important limitations that substantially weaken the power of the apparent evidence-based support of our theories. We demonstrate that a more holistic and comprehensive approach to theoretical testing and methodological rigor is necessary in order to develop a parsimonious and valid empirical regime that would allow us to make more generalizable and predictive statements about the phenomena that we observe.
