Focus on education: Taking stock of key themes, topics, trends and communities in international business and international management education research

This paper sheds light on education in International Business (IB) and International Management (IM) by identifying the main topics, themes, trends and subdomain clusters in their education-focused literature. Using a combination of text-and network-based analysis, only recently introduced for data analysis in IB/IM, we reveal themes focused mainly on five areas: global focus; learning and skill development; teaching and curriculum development; economic and management issues; and student types and experience. Further, we examine the extent to which keywords associated with critical perspectives enter the education literature to gain insight into the embrace of issues related to sustainability, ethics, empathy and gender.

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This paper examines the education-focused literature in the fields of International Business (IB) and International Management (IM) to identify the main topics, themes, trends, and subdomain clusters. Through a combination of text-and network-based analysis, the study reveals five main areas of focus: global perspective, learning and skill development, teaching and curriculum development, economic and management issues, and student types and experience. Additionally, it investigates the presence of critical perspectives, such as sustainability, ethics, empathy, and gender, in the education literature.