Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 1 Issue 4

Organizational space: a new frontier in international business strategy?

Henry Wai‐chung Yeung

Through an intervention from a geographical perspective on organizational space, this article aims to offer a new horizon in understanding international business strategy.

Architectonics of McDonald's cohabitation with Wal‐Mart: An exploratory study of ethnocentricity

David Boje, Esther Enríquez, M. Teresa González, Eduardo Macías

Architectonics is proposed as a dialogic theory and method to research three discursive spheres: McDonald's corporation, McDonaldization, and McDonaldland.

Dialectics of something and nothing: critical reflections on Ritzer's globalization analysis

Douglas Kellner

Seeks to provide critical reflections on George Ritzer's globalization analysis.

Whatever happened to the revolution?

Paul Kingsnorth

Aims to discuss counter‐movements to the recent G8 summit of 2005, held at Gleneagles, Scotland, place them into a broader social and historical context, and assess their…

Academia, the G8 and other misfortunes: notes on two journeys

Steffen Böhm, George Cairns

Aims to discuss the relationship between the recent G8 summit of 2005, held at Gleneagles, Scotland, and events occurring around the same time in the world of academe and in the…

Low Pay, High Profile: The Global Push for Fair Labor

Joanne Roberts

Introduction from the Editors

George Cairns