Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 19 Issue 5

COVID and challenges in the context of family firms internationalisation: a review and emerging research pathways

Katerina Kampouri, Yannis Hajidimitriou

This study aims to fulfil a twofold purpose: first, to discuss the changes and unique challenges that family firms (FFs) face during the COVID-19 pandemic and/or they will face in…

Compassion in the international business studies – prospects for future research

Michael Jakobsen, Verner Worm, Sven Horak

This paper aims to introduce the concept of compassion to the field of international business studies. As international business activities continuously intensify and hence…

Moving up the value chain with South-South cooperation for trade and technology? An analysis of India’s trade with East Africa

Amrita Saha, Filippo Bontadini, Alistair Cowan

The purpose of this paper is to provide an early assessment of India’s South-South cooperation for trade and technology (SSTT) with East Africa, focusing on Ethiopia, Rwanda…

Framing biases and language choices: how the Japanese media broadcast foreign aid policy for Africa

Faith Hatani

This paper aims to investigate how the Japanese media conveyed the country’s foreign aid policy and analyse how framing biases in the news differ depending on which language…

Comparative capitalism and the empirical taxonomy of context: enhancing the institutionalist blueprint

Drew Woodhouse, Andrew Johnston

Critiques of international business (IB) have long pointed to the weaknesses in the understanding of context. This has ignited debate on the understanding of institutions and how…

Review of The Contest for Value in Global Value Chains: Correcting for Distorted Distribution in the Global Apparel Industry

Intan Suwandi