Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to critically review the existing research on the intersection between war and international business (IB) and to map out a future research agenda.

Design/methodology/approach

Drawing on corporate examples and extant literature within IB, political science and international relations, the paper provides an introduction to the main concepts of war, a review of the IB research on war and provides a critical future research agenda.

Findings

The review of the multiple strands of war-related research in IB generally reveals an understudied area. Among other biases, prior research has focused on inter-state wars and has relatively unexplored foreign direct investment (FDI) and non-FDI within civil wars. Furthermore, previous studies offer little attention to how IB and multinational companies contribute to the emergence and development of wars.

Originality/value

The paper develops an analytical and critical research agenda for future research to examine the relationship between war and IB. This includes a set of questions for each of the three major phases of war: pre-conflict, armed violence and post-conflict. To the best of my knowledge, this has not been done before in the context of IB research.

中文翻译：

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利用子弹：国际商业和战争动态

目的

本文的目的是批判性地回顾现有的关于战争与国际商业 (IB) 交叉点的研究，并制定未来的研究议程。

设计/方法/方法

本文借鉴国际文凭、政治学和国际关系领域的企业案例和现有文献，介绍了战争的主要概念，回顾了国际文凭关于战争的研究，并提供了一个重要的未来研究议程。

发现

对 IB 中与战争相关的多方面研究的回顾通常揭示了一个未被充分研究的领域。除其他偏见外，先前的研究主要集中在国家间战争上，并且在内战中的外国直接投资 (FDI) 和非 FDI 相对未探索。此外，以前的研究很少关注IB和跨国公司如何促进战争的出现和发展。

原创性/价值

本文为未来研究制定了分析和批判性研究议程，以检验战争与 IB 之间的关系。这包括针对战争三个主要阶段中的每一个阶段的一组问题：冲突前、武装暴力和冲突后。据我所知，这在 IB 研究的背景下以前从未做过。