Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 13 Issue 2

A critical perspective on the measurement of performance in the empirical multinationality and performance literature

Nicole Franziska Richter, Robert Schmidt, Tina Jessica Ladwig, Fabian Wulhorst

This paper aims to contribute to the core research in international business (IB), namely, the relationship between multinationality and performance and is concerned with the…

Mexico City street vendors and the stickiness of institutional contexts: Implications for strategy in emerging markets

Farzad H. Alvi, Jorge Alberto Mendoza

The need for a firm’s business strategy to be responsive to the institutional contexts of emerging markets is well-established in the literature. Often, however, strategic…

Signs of dystopia and demoralization in global academia: Reflections on the precarious and destructive effects of the colonization of the Lebenswelt

Mike Geppert, Graham Hollinshead

This paper has been written in the style of a provocative essay. This paper aims to show how neo-liberalism has become the leading “policy doctrine” in higher education (HE…

Corporate responses to stakeholder activism: partnerships and surveillance

Julie Uldam, Hans Krause Hansen

Corporations are increasingly expected to act responsibly. The purpose of this paper is to examine two types of corporate responses to these expectations: overt and covert…

Trapped in a vicious circle: can low-weight subsidiaries get headquarters’ attention?

Hammad ul Haq

Subsidiaries use their weight and/or voice to get attention for the initiatives they share with the headquarters. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether subsidiaries with…

Micropolitics in the Multinational Corporation: Foundations, Applications and New Directions

Anna Schneider