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jibs-methods
Use when designing the empirical study for a Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) manuscript — matching a cross-country and/or multilevel design to the question, planning for measurement equivalence, common-method variance, and endogeneity before data collection. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation (jibs-data-analysis) or build the mechanism (jibs-theory-development).
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# Cross-Country & Multilevel Research Design (jibs-methods)
## When to trigger
- You are choosing a design for a cross-border or multi-country question
- Your data are nested (individuals in firms in countries) and you need the right structure
- You anticipate reviewers probing measurement equivalence, CMV, or endogeneity
- A reviewer says "the design cannot support a cross-country inference"
## JIBS is method-pluralistic; rigor is the gatekeeper
JIBS is **paradigmatically and methodologically pluralistic** by policy — quantitative, qualitative, mixed, and pure-theory work are all in scope. There is **no single mandated method**. But its practical center of gravity is **theory-driven, hypothesis-testing empirical work on cross-country or multilevel data**, held to demanding standards. Pick the design that fits the phenomenon, then engineer in the three rigor demands JIBS reviewers apply most insistently.
## Match the design to the claim