Temporality and firm de-internationalization: Three historical approaches |
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Institution: | 1. Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Kanslerinrinne 1, 33100 Tampere, Finland;2. Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014, Jyväskylä, Finland |
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Abstract: | This paper contributes to process-oriented international business research by showing how three distinct historical approaches can enrich theoretical understanding concerning temporality in firm de-internationalization. First, we show how comparative historical analysis unleashes the causal structure of the process and provides explanatory understanding of the temporal grounding of the mechanisms driving the process. Second, we explicate how interpretive history reveals the embeddedness of de-internationalization in the prevailing spirit of the time. Finally, we consider how poststructuralist history enables us to focus on the strong subjectivity of individuals in which multiple temporalities come together in a chaotic combination underlying behavior. |
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