Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

Scientific mindfulness: A foundation for future themes in international business

  • Karsten Jonsen
  • , Zeynep Aycan
  • , Iris Berdrow
  • , Nakiye A. Boyacigiller
  • , Mary Yoko Brannen
  • , Sue C. Davison
  • , Joerg Dietz
  • , Julia Gluesing
  • , Catherine T. Kwantes
  • , Mila Lazarova
  • , Svjetlana Madzar
  • , Mary M. Maloney
  • , Martha Maznevski
  • , Edward F. McDonough
  • , Sully Taylor
  • , David C. Thomas
  • , Todd J. Weber

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Abstract

We conceptualize new ways to qualify what themes should dominate the future international business and management (IB/IM) research agenda by examining three questions: Whom should we ask? What should we ask, and which selection criteria should we apply? What are the contextual forces? Our main findings are the following: (1) wider perspectives from academia and practice would benefit both rigor and relevance; (2) four key forces are climate change, globalization, inequality, and sustainability; and (3) we propose scientific mindfulness as the way forward for generating themes in IB/IM research. Scientific mindfulness is a holistic, cross-disciplinary, and contextual approach, whereby researchers need to make sense of multiple perspectives with the betterment of society as the ultimate criterion.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)43-69
Number of pages27
JournalAdvances in International Management
Volume23
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Scientific mindfulness: A foundation for future themes in international business'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this