International business deals with business activities which is both production and services that cross the national boundaries. This activity includes movement of goods, services capital or personnel, transfer of technology, etc.
Functionally, by business we mean those human activities, which involve production or purchase of goods and services with the object of selling them at a profit. Today’s world is an era of Global Village or specialization. A particular country is not self-dependent for producing goods and services. One country depends on another for goods and services as well as one area of a particular country depends on another area for meeting demand. This interdependence creates internationals Business.
1) IB field is concerned with the issues facing international companies and governments in dealing with all types of cross border transactions.
2) IB involves all business transactions that involve two or more countries.
3) IB consists of transactions that are devised and carried out across borders to satisfy the objectives of individuals and organizations.
4) IB consists of those activities private and public enterprises that involve the movement across national boundaries of goods and services, resources, knowledge or skills.
Abstract
International Business should evolve its rhetoric from the relatively uncontroversial idea that “history matters” to exploring how it matters. There are three conceptual reasons for doing so. First, historical variation is at least as good as contemporary cross-sectional variation in illuminating conceptual issues. As an example, we show that conclusions reached by the literature on contemporary emerging market business groups are remarkably similar to independently reached conclusions about a very similar organizational form that was ubiquitous in the age of empire. Second, history can allow us to move beyond the oft-recognized importance of issues of