Research on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is rising but far from complete. This special issue (SI) aims to enhance our understanding of how firms in Asia and beyond strategically respond to the BRI and what new theories and investigations are needed to better elucidate this new environment. In this editorial, we present a brief description of BRI, a review of related studies in the international business (IB) domain, a summary of the articles included in the SI and their contributions to the study of BRI, and an agenda for future research. We suggest that more attention should be given to examination of organizational heterogeneity under the BRI theme. In particular, there exists a variety of players like the governments of the host countries, non-government institutions, firms with different ownership structures, managers with different backgrounds, and their idiosyncratic characteristics should be incorporated in BRI studies. Moreover, future studies should find fine-grained ways to theorize and operationalize the policy effects of BRI. We call for further investigation of the consequences of BRI, including but not limiting to different aspects of IB activities, innovation, entrepreneurship, and corporate social responsibility.

一带一路倡议（BRI）的研究正在兴起，但还远远没有完成。本期特刊（SI）旨在增进我们对亚洲及其他地区企业如何对BRI做出战略反应的理解，以及需要哪些新的理论和研究以更好地阐明这一新环境。在这篇社论中，我们将简要介绍“一带一路”倡议，对国际商业（IB）领域的相关研究进行综述，SI中包含的文章摘要及其对“一带一路”倡议研究的贡献以及今后的研究议程。我们建议应更多地关注“一带一路”倡议下组织异质性的检查。特别是，存在多种参与者，例如东道国政府，非政府机构，拥有不同所有权结构的公司，BRI研究应纳入具有不同背景，其特质特征的管理人员。此外，未来的研究应该找到细粒度的方法来理论化和实施“一带一路”倡议的政策效果。我们呼吁对BRI的后果进行进一步调查，包括但不限于IB活动，创新，企业家精神和企业社会责任的不同方面。