Historical Research Approaches to the Analysis of Internationalisation

Historical research methods and approaches can improve understanding of the most appropriate techniques to confront data and test theories in internationalisation research. A critical analysis of all “texts” (sources), time series analyses, comparative methods across time periods and space, counterfactual analysis and the examination of outliers are shown to have the potential to improve research practices. Examples and applications are shown in these key areas of research with special reference to internationalisation processes. Examination of these methods allows us to see internationalisation processes as a sequenced set of decisions in time and space, path dependent to some extent but subject to managerial discretion. Internationalisation process research can benefit from the use of historical research methods in analysis of sources, production of time-lines, using comparative evidence across time and space and in the examination of feasible alternative choices

Historical political economy in Russia, 1870 - 1913

This article hypothesizes the existence of a Russian strand of historical political economy in the period 1870 to 1913, in parallel with the more famous German and Irish examples. To substantiate this claim the works of various pre-revolutionary Russian economists are surveyed as short case studies, including that of I.K. Babst, A.I. Chuprov, I.Kh. Ozerov and D.I. Mendeleev. Moreover various common themes are identified in their work and also in comparison with the work of established historical economists such as Roscher and Schmoller. The Bolshevik revolution in 1917 is then conceived as a point of rupture in the natural evolution of Russian economic theory.Historical political economy, cultural and institutional economics, pre-revolutionary Russian economics, Russian history before 1917,