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Digital globalization of firms: Literature review and future directions
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Digitalization and globalization are deeply integrating, reshaping the development paradigms of firm internationalization. Although prior research has documented what differences exist between digital and traditional firms’ internationalization, it has not documented why or how they differ. Using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) methods and a systematic literature review (SLR) of 157 articles published between 2012 and 2025 in ABS 3-star and above journals in the management, organization, strategy, and international business fields, this study constructs a “CTAPC” framework (Context characteristics, Theoretical perspectives, Antecedents, Processes, and Consequences). Based on this framework, we identify the current state, gaps, and future directions of digital and traditional firms’ digital globalization research from technological change, strategic change, and institutional change perspectives. We dissect the sources of these differences through the three lenses, offering a more granular, theory‑grounded understanding of digital globalization to advance knowledge on firms’ digital globalization.
Keywords:
Digital globalization of firms
Latent Dirichlet allocation
Systematic literature review
“CTAPC” framework
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