(Dis) Articulation in International Business Studies: Perspectives on research in business-related academic programs in Colombia, and academic literature worldwide

The epistemological relations of scientific output in the fields of knowledge regarding international business, international relations, international management, and international marketing, among other international studies, have yet to be noticed. There-fore, it is essential to clarify them within the scientific, educational, and productive fields. Despite the relevance of this topic, more studies should look at the evolution of the relationships between these fields of knowledge. We intend to examine the evolution and consolidation of scientific production in international business studies internationally and in Colombia. To do so, we undertake a two-stage analysis: the first stage consists of processing information on the scientific output of the member universities of the Colombian Network Association of International Professions (Asociación Red Colombiana de Profesiones Internacionales, RCPI), extracted from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation’s GrupLac repository, using Max-QDA software. The second stage consists of a literature review that includes consulting the Scopus database and analyzing its output using the Tree of Science (ToS) application. We found a disarticulation within the field of knowledge regarding international business studies in business-related programs in Colombia, and only the research, which relates to politics, diplomacy, and international business, has mainly attempted to consolidate this field internationally.