Analysis of complex network in international business literature

Abstract

As the literature of international business has been developed by contributions of researches from different areas, it has become a more complex system and researches from different areas have constructed a complex network for the research domain of international business. Data mining has become an important technology in researching networks of business area, and this research applies the technology of data mining in a 2-Mode network of international business literature, which includes both network nodes and their attributes, and aims to further reveal the structure of international business area. This research is helpful to scholars and professionals in future mining of literature for international business area.