Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 18 Issue 2

Strategic responses of MNCs in emerging markets: addressing institutional voids associated with informal institutions

Anne H. Koch

The purpose of this paper is to address the question how multinational corporations (MNCs) can respond to different domains of formal voids associated with informal institutions…

“We care about others”: discursive constructions of corruption vis-à-vis national/cultural identity in Indonesia’s business-government relations

Kanti Pertiwi

This paper aims to problematize existing conceptualization of corruption by presenting alternative perspectives on corruption in Indonesia through the lens of national/cultural…

International mega-corruption Inc.: the structural violence against sustainable development

Frederick Ahen

This paper aims to determine the underlying structural foundations that explain why mega (large-scale) corruption exists in an ever-more sophisticated form and how and why the…

Internalising and internationalising country specific CSR practices of a Japanese multinational company

Chamila R. Perera, Chandana R. Hewege

Applying mainstream, Western-centric corporate social responsibility (CSR) theory to make sense of CSR practices of multinational firms of non-Western origin seems to be…

How far are we from understanding corruption? The effect of cultural distance on corruption perception

Mike Szymanski, Ivan Valdovinos, Evodio Kaltenecker

This study aims to examine the relationship between cultural distances between countries and their scores in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), which is the most commonly used…

“Start-up Nation” vs “the Republic of Samsung”: power and politics in the partner choice discourse in Israeli–Korean business collaboration

Irina Lyan

This paper aims to propose to politicize partner choice as a discourse that rationalizes, legitimizes and justifies the choice of partners by underlining economic, cultural and…

Social impact investing as a neoliberal construction: ego and altruism in the post-colonial space of Oaxaca, Mexico

Farzad Haider Alvi

This paper examines social impact investing (SII), a growing source of investment from the Global North to the Global South celebrated as a new way of doing good in low-income…