Innovation,competition and change in international business: Emergent research trajectories

Abstract and Key Results

•	This paper introduces innovation, competition and regulatory change as dominant themes in international business.
•	These themes represent focussed trajectories for future research despite diversity in their causes, processes and consequences and the interactions between them which reflect the increasingly complex environment in which managers operate.
•	This diversity and the significant interactions between the three areas pose a challenge to scholars, with current research both shedding light on particular aspects and on the interactions between the elements in applied settings as demonstrated by the contributions to this focused issue.