Table 2

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteriaExclusion criteria
Journals ranked by the Chartered Association of Business Schools, ABS 2 and higherNon peer-reviewed publications, e.g. books, reports, project deliverables, working papers and PhD theses
Overlapping articles between the two databases
Books, tutorials or poster publications
Articles focusing on the impact of digitalization on knowledge processes in international businessPapers that came out of the automatic search but did not really focus on the impact of digitalization on knowledge processes in international business
Papers on crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and open source.
Papers on smart cities or regional development
Publications in EnglishLiterature reviews
Time-span 2000–2023Papers that do not focus on firms or populations of firms in the international business context
Papers that come from an automatic search on EBSCO® and Scopus® databases plus articles entered manually by the authors by searching in the references, which, however, respect the inclusion criteriaPublications whose full-text was not available
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