Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 6 Issue 2/3

Introduction to the special issue on “Critical international management and international critical management: perspectives from Latin America”

Eduardo Ibarra‐Colado, Alex Faria, Ana Lucia Guedes

The purpose of the paper is to problematise the emerging interest on international management from a critical point of view, considering the potential contribution of Latin…

Internationalization of management, neoliberalism and the Latin America challenge

Alex Faria, Eduardo Ibarra‐Colado, Ana Guedes

This paper aims to problematize the lack of different worldviews on international management (IM), and the virtual silence in Latin America regarding this field within the context…

The phenomenon of NGOs: a lateral reading from Latin America

Nidhi Srinivas

The purpose of this paper is to ask what can be learned from contemporary resistance to neo‐liberal policies in Latin America, in terms of broadening the disciplinary…

Delinking legitimacy: a decolonial critique of Brazilian ethanol

Takeyoshi Imasato

By adopting a decolonial critical standpoint, the scope of this paper is to discuss the concept of legitimacy in the international management (IM) field and conduct a critique of…

International management, business and relations in Latin America

Ana Guedes, Alex Faria

This paper aims to draw on international relations (IR) literature to analyze, from a critical standpoint, recent developments in international business (IB) and international…

Latin America's critical management? A liberation genealogy

Marcela P. Mandiola

This paper aims to articulate the need of new approaches for what has been regarded as a critical position within management studies. Particularly it aims to explore the gap among…

Psychological knowledge for the governance of the South

Hernan Camilo Pulido‐Martinez

This paper aims to achieve a critical understanding of the place of psychological knowledge with regard to the international regulation of the world of work. Specifically, it…

Management control systems: universal practices or national practices?

Ana Carolina Pimentel Duarte da Fonseca

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the neutrality of a management control approach and verify if it incorporates North‐American values.

Critical international management and international critical management: perspectives from Latin America

Rafael Alcadipani