Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 17 Issue 4

What shapes industrial relations in foreign affiliates? Comparative case study results from Germany

Christoph Dörrenbächer, Heinz Tüselmann, Heinz-Rudolf Meissner, Qi Cao

The purpose of this paper is to develop an analytical framework to categorize the quality of industrial relations in foreign affiliates. Using the case of foreign affiliates in…

Multilevel theorizing in international business: the case of research on strategy implementation in MNCs

Aušrinė Šilenskytė, Adam Smale

This paper aims to illustrate why an understanding of how levels of analysis interact is an essential part of multilevel research in the field of international business (IB)…

Financing Russian firms: Ireland and round tripping

Cillian Doyle, Jim Stewart

Ireland has become one of the main sources of finance for Russian based firms. The purpose of this paper is to quantify and analyse these flows to examine governance and…

Analyzing the reliability of Chinese outward FDI studies: a replication approach

John Anderson, Dylan Sutherland, Fan Zhang, Yangyang Zan

Many academic studies in international business empirically test the determinants of Chinese outward (O)FDI. A weakness with these studies is the limited critical evaluation given…

International entrepreneurial orientation amidst post-colonial upheaval: entrepreneurs during the Hong Kong Umbrella Revolution

Farzad Haider Alvi

This paper examines the internationalization response of entrepreneurs in Hong Kong to the institutional upheaval of the Umbrella Revolution (UR), analyzed through the lens of…

A critical discourse analysis to explain the failure of BoP strategies

Nancy E. Landrum

This paper aims to highlight differences between business and non-business literature regarding base of the pyramid (BoP) and subsistence contexts and reveal discourse’s powerful…

Uncovering missing links in global value chain research – and implications for corporate social responsibility and international business

Merel Serdijn, Ans Kolk, Luc Fransen

Amidst burgeoning attention for global value chains (GVCs) in international business (IB), this paper aims to identify a clear “missing link” in this literature and discusses…

Contemporary restructuring trends in European multinational corporations: rationale and impact on labour and workers’ participation

Christoph Dörrenbächer, Mike Geppert, Aline Hoffmann

This paper addresses the so far hardly understood contemporary restructuring trends in European Multinational corporations (MNCs), their rationales and their labour-related…