This study measures and ranks the performance of nations and academic institutions based on a 45-year analysis of international business (IB) publications, including 5853 academic authors from 1542 affiliated institutions. Examining authors’ academic origin and university of affiliation, and with a focus on the European nations that participated in the production of IB research, we make several novel contributions to the field: (1) identifying a unique internationalization process of IB research that consists of three distinct stages driven by international collaboration, (2) highlighting the role of international collaborations in overcoming publication barriers at the regional and country level, and (3) highlighting the role of both scale and scope of international collaborations in achieving a top-ranked position in the production of IB research.

这项研究基于对国际商业 (IB) 出版物的 45 年分析，包括来自 1542 个附属机构的 5853 位学术作者，对国家和学术机构的表现进行衡量和排名。检查作者的学术出身和所属大学，并重点关注参与 IB 研究生产的欧洲国家，我们对该领域做出了一些新的贡献：(1) 确定了一个独特的 IB 研究国际化过程，其中包括国际合作推动的三个不同阶段，(2) 强调国际合作在克服区域和国家层面出版障碍方面的作用，