Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 18 Issue 5

Overcoming economic liminality: internationalization of B2B SME’s from a small emerging economy

Barney G. Pacheco, Syed Akhter

Current research on small to medium enterprise (SME) internationalization has generated valuable insight but continues to overlook the activities of business-to-business (B2B…

Exploiting bullets: international business and the dynamics of war

Martin David Owens

The purpose of this paper is to critically review the existing research on the intersection between war and international business (IB) and to map out a future research agenda.

Between liability and asset: a critical review of 25 years of foreignness research in international business

Young Hoon An, Stefan Zagelmeyer, Asmund Rygh

The dialectics of liabilities of foreignness (LOF) and assets of foreignness (AOF) have led to further explorations of what it means for an organisation to be foreign. This paper…

The temporal dimension from the perspective of internationalisation: a theoretical discussion

Beatrice Zanellato Mayer, Dinora Eliete Floriani

This paper aims to analyse how the temporal dimension is conceptualised in studies of the internationalisation process of firms and its implications. Theoretical models such as…

Practice coordination by principles: a contemporary MNC approach to coordinating global practices

Alexander Kristiansen, Roger Schweizer

In the mainstream international business literature on multinational corporations (MNCs), an authoritative central headquarter (HQ) that transfers standardised practices to its…

The nasty face of the liability of foreignness: MNCs and rent extraction

Asli Kozan

This study aims to clarify the factors that act as a buffer to rent extraction from multi-national corporations (MNCs) in exchange relationships with the host country’s political…