Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 8 Issue 1

The futures of critical perspectives on international business

Joanne Roberts, Christoph Dörrenbächer

The purpose of this extended editorial is to elaborate on the possible future trajectories of critical perspectives on international business. In addition, the content of the…

Markets, organizations, institutions and national identity: Pan American Airways, postcoloniality and Latin America

Chris Hartt, Albert J. Mills, Jean Helms Mills, Gabrielle Durepos

Through a case study of Pan American World Airways (Pan Am), this paper sets out to explore the roots of twentieth century globalization and the postcolonial nature of the trading…

Americanizing Brazilian management

Rafael Alcadipani, Miguel P. Caldas

This paper aims to discuss, from a post‐colonial perspective, the context and process of the Americanization of Brazilian management.

Playing around an oxymoron: international business with a human face

Antonello Zanfei

The aim of this paper is to discuss the apparent paradox that multinational firms may and sometimes do pursue social benefits as their main objective.

Rollerball and the spirit of capitalism: Competitive dynamics within the global context, the challenge to labour transnationalism, and the emergence of ironic outcomes

Nathan Lillie, Miguel Martínez Lucio

Capital, through its practices and narratives of global competition, is able to play unions in different locations off against one another through the construction and…

Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy, 6th Edition

Joanne Roberts

The China Strategy: How to Win the New Game of Global Enterprise

Fei Qin

EGOS announcement