Introducing the eventful temporality of historical research into international business
提出历史研究对时间性的独特理解，强调事件在历史背景中的重要性，通过分期、时间距离和史料批判解释，为国际商务研究提供方法论和理论上的多元视角。
Historical research represents an alternative understanding of temporality that can contribute to greater methodological and theoretical plurality in international business (IB) research. Historians focus on the importance of events within their historical context and structure their accounts through periodisation, assume that the temporal distance between the past and present determines the temporal positionality of researchers, and seek to reconstruct past events through historical sources, which require critical interpretation. Historical research provides an alternative methodological approach to temporality, context, and distance with relevance to a range of IB theories.