Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 17 Issue 2

The Covid-19 pandemic: towards a societally engaged IB perspective

Christoph Dörrenbächer, Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Florian Becker-Ritterspach, Mehdi Boussebaa, Louise Curran, Alice de Jonge, Zaheer Khan

This viewpoint takes up the Covid-19 pandemic as a trigger for a research agenda around societally engaged international business (IB) research.

From Ebola to COVID-19: what explains institutionalized manias and the ultimate preference for non-optimal solutions in global health governance?

Frederick Ahen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how “manias” in global health governance lead to health inequalities even before, during and in the aftermath of acute health crises…

Emerging social and business trends associated with the Covid-19 pandemic

Hamid Yeganeh

This paper aims to identify, classify and study emerging social and business trends associated with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Elite maintenance work across the Covid-19 crisis: a critical view on power and language

Suhaib Riaz, Sean Buchanan

This paper aims to present a critical interpretation of unfolding events related to corporate and policymaking elites during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic crisis to serve as…

Towards crisis protection(ism)? COVID-19 and selective de-globalization

Layla Branicki, Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor, Stephen Brammer

Drawing on Wendt’s (1995, 1999) thin constructivist approach to international relations this paper aims to critically examine how the measures taken by the Australian Government…

The trade policy response to COVID-19 and its implications for international business

Louise Curran, Jappe Eckhardt, Jaemin Lee

This paper aims to explore trade policy measures taken in response to COVID-19 and analyses in detail their extent and nature. It assesses their compatibility with World Trade…

Predatory FDI during economic crises: insights from outbound FDI from China and host country responses

Arindam Das

This paper aims to analyze outbound investments from China at the time of economic crisis caused due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and how target valuation and the host…

Resilient or not: boundary-spanning in innovation focused MNEs during global crises

Andreas Schotter

The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical perspective on whether the boundary-spanner model and consequently complex disaggregated intra-MNE value chain activities are…

International relationships and resilience of New Zealand SME exporters during COVID-19

Benjamin Fath, Antje Fiedler, Noemi Sinkovics, Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor

This paper aims to empirically investigate how small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have engaged with international network partners during COVID-19 and how the crisis has…