Abstract Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented increase in scholars’ interest in emerging economies, with an increasing number of articles published. This study investigates the knowledge base that has formed the foundation for research on emerging economies. Using bibliometric techniques of citations and co-citations, we reviewed the extant management/business research on emerging economies to identify the intellectual structure and the main research concentrations of the field over the past two decades, from 1992 to 2013. The findings reveal that an institutional perspective has been foundational to the research on emerging economies multinationals. Yet, there is a growing emphasis on firms’ strategic choices and the use of resource, and dynamic capabilities-based views – entering and exiting emerging economies. Institutional perspectives complement a greater emphasis on the global strategies of firms in and out of emerging economies as scholars delve into the emerging countries multinationals’ dynamic capabilities as sources of competitive advantage. This study extends the current comprehension of the theories and themes researched, how the research agenda has progressed, and the conceptual idiosyncrasies of emerging economies studies. We provide scholars and practitioners with a global rear view of the field, organize, classify and systematize the stock of accumulated knowledge and the trends of theorizing, as a foundation to spawn future research endeavors.

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新兴经济体管理研究的二十年：引文和共引书评

摘要近年来，学者们对新兴经济体的兴趣空前增加，发表的文章越来越多。本研究调查了知识基础，这些知识基础为新兴经济体的研究奠定了基础。我们使用文献计量学的引文和引文技术，回顾了新兴经济体的现有管理/商业研究，以确定了从1992年到2013年的过去20年中该领域的知识结构和主要研究领域。制度视角一直是新兴经济跨国公司研究的基础。但是，越来越多的公司开始选择进入和退出新兴经济体的公司的战略选择和资源使用以及基于动态能力的观点。随着学者深入研究新兴国家，跨国公司作为竞争优势来源的动态能力，制度观点补充了对新兴经济体进出公司的全球战略的更大重视。这项研究扩展了当前对所研究的理论和主题的理解，研究议程的进展方式以及新兴经济体研究的概念特质。我们为学者和从业人员提供该领域的全球后视，组织，分类和系统化积累的知识储备以及理论化的趋势，以此作为产生未来研究工作的基础。