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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

Session: 25976: Navigating Geopolitical Risks: Measuring, Managing, and Responding to Global Tensions

14195: Measuring Geopolitics (session 25976)

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

08:30 - 10:00 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B5-m5

Session Type: Paper Session
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/PnYX7Q

Author(s)

GA

Gilbert Kofi Adarkwah

École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal - HEC Montreal, Canada
CS

Christopher Albert Sabel

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus U., Netherlands
FZ

Flladina Zilja

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

This article provides an overview of the main databases used to measure geopolitics: United Nations (UN) General Assembly voting patterns, newspaper articles’ sentiment, and sanctions. Despite their popularity, such operationalizations have neither been critically discussed nor juxtaposed in the international business and management literature. We discuss the explanatory power of the most used operationalizations based on UN voting and juxtapose them with other measures to discuss ways forward in capturing geopolitical relationships, and their faceted impact on firms and governments in the 21st century.

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