Disasters and international business: Insights and recommendations from a systematic review

ABSTRACT: Disasters – natural or manmade – are on the rise with far-reaching implications for international business (IB) actors and transactions. While the Covid-19 pandemic has generated much academic interest for its impact on business in general, little effort has been made to consolidate the fragmented research on disasters more broadly in the field of international business. Therefore, it is important and urgent to consolidate the existing knowledge to provide a solid basis for future research. We systematically review 132 articles published between 1991 and 2022 and critically evaluate the nascent but rapidly growing literature at the intersection of disasters and IB. Our examination of the different types of disasters (natural and manmade) shows two separate streams: (1) a dominant MNE-centr

SUBMITTER: Nielsen B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10139868 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature