Cross-Country & Multilevel Research Design (jibs-methods)

When to trigger

• You are choosing a design for a cross-border or multi-country question
• Your data are nested (individuals in firms in countries) and you need the right structure
• You anticipate reviewers probing measurement equivalence, CMV, or endogeneity
• A reviewer says "the design cannot support a cross-country inference"

JIBS is method-pluralistic; rigor is the gatekeeper

JIBS is paradigmatically and methodologically pluralistic by policy — quantitative, qualitative, mixed, and pure-theory work are all in scope. There is no single mandated method. But its practical center of gravity is theory-driven, hypothesis-testing empirical work on cross-country or multilevel data, held to demanding standards. Pick the design that fits the phenomenon, then engineer in the three rigor demands JIBS reviewers apply most insistently.

Match the design to the claim