This study explores 134 articles on agility and flexibility research published in the top-nine international business (IB) journals. Accordingly, we critically analyze, map and structure flexibility and agility research in IB, and synthesize the findings into an integrative framework. The paper identifies a wide range of definitions of the concept and a lot of work on its conceptualization. However, studies at the individual and institutional levels of analyses are scarce, and the concept is under-theorized, as there is a dearth of real theoretical underpinnings in this research stream. Thus, in addressing this gap, more qualitative and interdisciplinary research is needed.

这项研究探索了在前九大国际商业（IB）期刊上发表的关于敏捷性和灵活性研究的134篇文章。因此，我们对IB中的灵活性和敏捷性研究进行批判性分析，映射和结构化，并将发现结果综合到一个集成框架中。本文确定了该概念的广泛定义以及有关其概念化的大量工作。但是，由于在此研究流中缺乏真正的理论基础，因此在个人和机构层面的分析研究很少，而且该概念的理论化程度较低。因此，为解决这一差距，需要进行更多的定性和跨学科研究。