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Analysing stimuli and barriers, failure and resilience in companies’ internationalization: a systematic and bibliometric review

Rui Martins (Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas, Universidade da Beira Interior and NECE - Research Unit in Business Sciences, Covilha, Portugal)
Luis Farinha (Instituto Politecnico de Castelo Branco and NECE - Research Unit in Business Sciences, Castelo Branco, Portugal)
Joao J. Ferreira (Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas, Universidade da Beira Interior and NECE - Research Unit in Business Sciences, Covilha, Portugal)

Review of International Business and Strategy

ISSN: 2059-6014

Article publication date: 22 December 2021

Issue publication date: 23 September 2022

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Abstract

Purpose

This study aims to systematize and analyze the internationalization of companies in an attempt to identify the main themes explored in the literature – What does the current state of the art tell us about the stimuli and barriers, failures and resilience in the internationalization of companies is what the authors set out to answer with this research.

Design/methodology/approach

This study offers a systematic review based on the bibliometric mapping techniques of 218 articles collected from the Web of Science database between 1996 and 2021.

Findings

Furthermore, contributing to literature by the logic of stimuli, barriers failure in internationalization companies. The main conclusion is that, from the analysis, the authors can see that the scientific production in this field of knowledge has intensified in recent years, but the centrality and the search density undergo major changes.

Originality/value

The main research contributions enable a better understanding of the involvement of failure and resilience in companies re-internationalization and suggestions for future studies in this field.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to the anonymous referees of the journal for their extremely useful suggestions to improve the quality of the article.

Declaration of conflicting interests: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.

Funding: The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.

Citation

Martins, R., Farinha, L. and Ferreira, J.J. (2022), "Analysing stimuli and barriers, failure and resilience in companies’ internationalization: a systematic and bibliometric review", Review of International Business and Strategy, Vol. 32 No. 4, pp. 581-601. https://doi.org/10.1108/RIBS-07-2021-0103

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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