Dedication: Yin and Yang: Integrating Disparate Perspectives for International Business Research and Teaching

Yin and Yang is a Taoist concept representing on the one hand balance and wholeness and on the other hand constant change as inherently different perspectives seek a stable compromise. There is a creative interdependence as each contrasting half contains the beginnings of the other; each is the catalyst driving the other into action and reaction. I use it here as a metaphor to characterise a certain kind of dynamic tension which drives complementarities in some scholarly collaborations, including my 15-year-long writing partnership with Alan Rugman. (The word Yin is often translated as ‘shady side’ and Yang as ‘sunny side’, but we don’t need to stretch the metaphor too far.)