Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 15 Issue 2/3

Editorial

Christoph Dörrenbächer, Snejina Michailova

Understanding cross-border crime: the value of international business research

Peter Enderwick

Based on a considerable degree of commonality between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and cross-border criminal organisations, the purpose of this paper is to identify ways and…

Modern slavery and international business scholarship: the governance nexus

Brent Burmester, Snejina Michailova, Christina Stringer

Modern slavery is a problem that international business (IB) research can no longer ignore. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are often contributors to the persistence of modern…

Global health and international business: new frontiers of international business research

Frederick Ahen

The purpose of this study is to revisit the interdisciplinary roots of international business (IB) by challenging the compartmentalized and obscured nature of certain major themes…

MNCs’ corporate environmental responsibility in emerging and developing economies: Toward an action research approach

Florian Becker-Ritterspach, Katharina Simbeck, Raghda El Ebrashi

This paper aims to provide multinational corporations (MNCs) with a portfolio of corporate environmental responsibility (CER) responses that help curbing the exacerbated negative…

Corporate engagement in humanitarian action: Concepts, challenges, and areas for international business research

Jasper Hotho, Verena Girschik

The purpose of this paper is to open up new lines of research into the engagement of corporations during humanitarian crises. The paper provides an introduction to core concepts…

Luxury international business: a critical review and agenda for research

Joanne Roberts

Through a critical review of the impact of luxury international business, this study aims to contribute to an understanding of business activities that depend on an unequal…

Critical and mainstream international business research: Making critical IB an integral part of a societally engaged international business discipline

Christoph Dörrenbächer, Jens Gammelgaard

This paper aims to address the relationship between critical and mainstream international business (IB) research and discuss the ways forward for the former.

Critical engagement in international business: creating meaning for a broad constituency

George M. Cairns

The purpose of this paper is to present a personal reflection on the nature of international business (IB) as a field of both academic study and business practice and…