John Dunning’s influence in International business/strategy research: a bibliometric study in the Strategic Management Journal

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Manuel Portugal
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Pinto, Cláudia Frias, Serra, Fernando A. Ribeiro, Gaspar, Florindo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/6167
• topic: John Dunning; OLI; Literature review; Eclectic paradigm; Bibliometric study; International strategy research

In this paper we undertake a literature review analyzing John Dunning’s contribution for international business and strategy research. We examine Dunning’s articles and other works and carry out a bibliometric study in the Strategic Management Journal, in the period from 1980 to 2009, a thirty years period. We conclude that beyond the more obvious contribution to the international business discipline with the Eclectic paradigm (OLI – Ownership, Location, Internalization), Dunning’s influence extends to other theories and concepts. Specifically, we observe connections to the resource-based view, transaction costs theory, the evolutionary theory and more broadly to the theory of the multinational enterprise.