Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 9 Issue 4

Transnational corporations, socio-economic change and recurrent crisis

Stephen Ackroyd, Jonathan Murphy

The paper's aim is to consider the effects of recurrent economic crisis on the management and organisational structures of transnational companies based in the UK by considering…

Hedge funds: agents of change for financialization

Jan Fichtner

– The purpose of this paper is to examine in which ways hedge funds contribute to financialization.

Hedge funds: Statistical arbitrage, high frequency trading and their consequences for the environment of businesses

Jamie Morgan

The paper's aim is to explore the impact of statistical arbitrage and high-frequency trading as hedge fund investment strategies that have a significant impact on the environment…

Managing from the echo chamber: Employee dismay and leadership detachment in the British banking and insurance crisis

Leo McCann

– This paper aims to explore the culture of working life in British financial services multinationals in the period leading up to the financial crisis of 2007-2008.

The tax avoidance industry: accountancy firms on the make

Prem Sikka, Hugh Willmott

– The paper aims to examine the involvement of global accountancy firms in devising and selling tax avoidance schemes euphemistically marketed as “tax planning”.

Sovereign wealth and the crisis: some consequences for Western international businesses

Barbara Weiss, Jay van Wyk

The purpose of this paper is to assess the wide-ranging implications of the global economic crisis and provide a comprehensive assessment of the how the structure of the market…