Abstract The literature on ‘Sleeping Beauties’ (SBs), papers that have been ‘asleep’ for a certain amount of time and that, suddenly, gain a significant amount of attention, is not very extensive, and has analyzed the phenomenon mainly in the Sciences. The present study seeks to find the SBs and their 'Princes’ (first studies citing the SBs that have more citations and more co-citations with the SBs) in the field of International Business (IB). In terms of methodology we resort to a model that involves citation and co-citation analyses applied to a sample of 19419 papers on IB published in journals indexed in Web of Science bibliographic database. Four main findings can be highlighted: 1) SBs are a rare phenomenon in IB as only 8 SBs were found (0.04% of the total papers analyzed); 2) They focused issues related to the process of firm internationalization, international entrepreneurship, global strategies, and performance and risk management; 3) They were published in highly renowned journals, such as Journal of International Business Studies; Journal of Management Studies or Strategic Management Journal; and 4) They slept between 5 and 18 years and were awaked by 22 princes. Differently from what has been stressed in the literature about SBs, most SBs in IB presented more than one ‘awakening time’ and were composed by ‘clusters’ of princes instead of a single prince. The study of SBs is a useful and instructive model in studying the mechanisms of scientific information flow through citations. It highlights that the excessive reliance on articles' current citations might prevent the uncovering of studies that are ahead of their time.

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睡美人和他们在国际商务中的王子

摘要 关于“睡美人”（SBs）的文献，即已经“沉睡”了一段时间，然后突然获得大量关注的论文，并不是很广泛，主要分析了这种现象。科学。本研究旨在寻找国际商务 (IB) 领域中的 SB 及其“王子”（首次研究引用了引用次数较多且与 SB 有更多共同被引的 SB）。在方法论方面，我们采用了一个模型，该模型涉及引用和共引分析，该模型应用于 19419 篇 IB 论文样本，这些论文发表在 Web of Science 书目数据库索引的期刊上。可以强调四个主要发现：1）SB 在 IB 中是一种罕见的现象，因为只发现了 8 个 SB（占分析的论文总数的 0.04%）；2）关注与企业国际化进程、国际创业、全球战略、绩效和风险管理相关的问题；3）曾在Journal of International Business Studies等知名期刊发表；管理研究杂志或战略管理杂志；4) 他们睡了 5 到 18 岁，被 22 位王子唤醒。与有关 SB 的文献中所强调的不同，IB 中的大多数 SB 呈现不止一个“觉醒时间”，并且由王子的“集群”而不是单个王子组成。SB 的研究是研究科学信息通过引用流动的机制的有用和有指导意义的模型。它强调了对文章的过度依赖