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jibs-literature-positioning

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Use when positioning a Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) manuscript within the international-business conversation — joining a live IB debate, problematizing rather than gap-spotting, and situating the work against the JIBS canon and adjacent IB outlets. Frames the conversation; it does not state the final contribution claim (jibs-contribution-framing).

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# Positioning in the IB Conversation (jibs-literature-positioning)

## When to trigger

- Your introduction reads as "little research has examined X" (gap-spotting)
- You cite general-management work but not the IB conversation your paper joins
- A reviewer asks "how does this engage existing IB theory?"
- You are unsure which IB debate your finding actually speaks to

## Problematize, do not gap-spot

JIBS, as a phenomenon-driven journal, rewards papers that **problematize** an assumption in the IB literature rather than catalog an empty cell. Identify a tension, an anomaly, or a contested mechanism in IB scholarship and show why resolving it matters for understanding cross-border activity. "No one has studied this country" is not a contribution; "the dominant internationalization-process account predicts X, but this phenomenon shows the opposite" is.

## Join a live IB conversation
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