International Business Theories

Year 2022, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 1843 - 1846, 31.01.2022

Bahar Dıvrık Elif Baykal

https://doi.org/10.29023/alanyaakademik.1001720

Cited By: 2

Abstract

International business theories began to be developed in the 1970s and became important in literature over the last four decades. From an economic point of view, international business theories, which were developed by examining the development of multinational companies were later influenced by management functions and developed separately under the behavioral perspective. Recently, it has been studied as a separate group in popular theories that develop due to the development of the internet technologies and e-commerce. In this review, international management theories developed since the 1970s were analyzed in detail and evaluated holistically according to chronological order. This study aims to provide a guide to the researchers who will research in this field by considering international management theories in conceptual detail.

Keywords

International Business, International Business Theories, Internalization

Uluslararası İşletmecilik Teorilerine Kavramsal Bir Bakış

Abstract

Uluslararası işletmecilik teorileri 1970’lerde geliştirilmeye başlanmış ve son kırk yılda literatürde oldukça önem kazanmıştır. İlk yıllarda ekonomik bakış açısıyla, çok uluslu firmaların gelişimini ve doğrudan direkt yatırımları inceleyerek gelişen uluslararası işletmecilik teorileri daha sonraları yönetim fonksiyonlarından etkilenerek davranışsal bakış açısı altında ayrı bir kol olarak ayrılmıştır. Son zamanlarda, internet teknolojilerinin ve e-ticaretin gelişimine bağlı olarak gelişen popüler teorilerde ayrı bir grup olarak incelenmiştir. Bu derleme çalışmasında, konuyla ilgili detaylı literatür taraması yapılmış, 1970’lerden beri geliştirilen uluslararası işletmecilik teorileri kronolojik sıralamaya göre bütünsel olarak değerlendirilmiştir. Bu çalışmanın amacı uluslararası işletmecilik teorilerini kavramsal olarak detaylı ele alarak bu alanda çalışma yapacak araştırmacılara bir rehber sunmaktır.

Keywords

Uluslararası İşletmecilik, Uluslararası İşletmecilik Teorileri, Uluslararasılaşma

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