While risk mitigation and management preparedness of MNEs have escalated to the top of the corporate agenda, international business literature is lacking pertinent conceptual and empirical studies. As an opener to this special issue, we offer several perspectives on country risk and its mitigation. We discuss conceptual and empirical challenges in researching risk in international business. We conclude with a commentary on the six papers included in this special issue on international business risk.

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国际业务中的风险及其缓解

跨国公司的风险缓解和管理准备已提升到公司议程的首位，而国际商业文献则缺乏相关的概念和实证研究。作为本期特刊的开场白，我们对国家风险及其缓解提供了几种观点。我们讨论国际业务风险研究中的概念和经验挑战。最后，我们对本期有关国际商业风险的六篇论文进行评论。