A bibliographic analysis of the scholarly writings of Jean J. Boddewyn

Introduction
One would be hard pushed to find another scholar who has had such a long scholarly writing career as Jean Boddewyn. Boddewyn continued to make major contributions into his nineties. Even in the last five years of his life, he published half a dozen articles in core International Business journals. A complete bibliography of Boddewyn’s scholarly work until 2011 can be found in this article in ISMO. This article was part of a Festschrift in his honor, which included reviews of his contributions to various fields.

Boddewyn’s collective scholarly work has been cited more than 8,500 times in Google Scholar, with a h-index of 43. Although he wrote much of his influential work alone, he co-authored with a wide range of academics, both junior and senior. In 2008 Boddewyn also organized and edited a book written by the AIB Fellows: International Business Scholarship: AIB Fellows on the First 50 Years and Beyond in the Emerald series Research in Global Strategic Management. He repeated this venture in 2014 with ten Fellows elected between 2008 and 2012 sharing their insights on important IB topics in Multidisciplinary Insights from New AIB Fellows.

Reviewing Boddewyn’s scholarly work is like reviewing the development of the field of International Business. It is impossible to do justice to the breadth and depth of his scholarly contributions in this short overview. Below is a very selective review of his scholarly work, focusing on his early and most recent work, both of which will be less familiar to many.