This review presents the results of a survey of fifty cross-national organizational researchers with regard to what they assessed to be popular topics of cross-nation and single nation research and what topics they felt could benefit from a cross-national organizational research perspective. It compares research responses about popular topics with an independent title search over recent years of the major academic journals in the field, and ends with a discussion of what the authors see as emerging trends in the field.
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