Critical Perspectives on International Business
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Not gone away: how domestic terrorism impacts multinationals in foreign markets
Martin David Owens, Elizabeth JohnsonThe paper aims to understand how state and non-state domestic terrorism impacts MNEs in foreign markets. Despite the burgeoning literature on terrorism within international…
The Olympus scandal – the dark side of social networks and corporate culture
Maria IlievaThis study aims to build on the well-documented case of the Olympus scandal to dissect how social networks and corporate culture enabled corporate elites to commit fraud across…
Persistence of wicked problems in opaque global value chains
Miguel Dindial, Hinrich VossThis paper engages with the important work of Raškovic (2023). The authors agree with Raškovic’s (2023) argument that international business (IB) policy is well positioned to…
Bulls and bears: inscribing SOEs’ roles into the global climate agenda
Olga Garanina, Daria Klishevich, Andrei PanibratovThis study aims to explore when and under what conditions state-owned enterprises (SOEs) become important players in orchestrating the global climate action and what their roles…
Multinational corporations and the blocking of trade unions in Germany
Helene LangbeinThis study aims to analyze the effect the liberalization of industrial relations in Germany has had on trade unions’ influence on companies’ decisions. Particular attention is…
Stepping stones across a fast-flowing river: supporting emerging scholars from emerging markets
Helena BarnardInternational business as a field values perspectives from various contexts, but scholars from emerging markets face a number of often-unseen challenges preventing them from fully…
Hegemon or South-South partner? The ambiguity of Chinese foreign direct investment in Peru
Francisca Da Gama, Kim BuiThe purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for evaluating the relationship between China and Peru, drawing on dependency theory, against the backdrop of China’s explicit…
Toward a future discourse on global value chains
Pushkar Pushp, Faisal AhmedThe discourse on global value chains (GVC) is undergoing a transformation in terms of its conceptualisation, theorisation and pragmatic applications. Today, the production systems…
Multinational firms as emissaries of decent work: worker responses to progressive HRM in a foreign retailer in Japan
Ödül Bozkurt, Chul Chung, Norifumi Kawai, Motoko Honda-HowardThe paper aims to provide an understanding of how the transfer of progressive human resource management (HRM) practices may or may fail to render multinational enterprises (MNEs…
Sharing the ownership in Peru and Mexico: the case of a French MNE prompting the SDGs achievement
Nicolas Aubert, Miguel Cordova, Gonzalo HernandezThis study aims to investigate how a French multinational enterprise (MNE) is developing employee stock ownership (ESO) in its subsidiaries in Peru and Mexico, both Latin American…
Actor-agency and institutional complexity: multinational corporations’ strategies to combat the framework convention on tobacco control in Brazil
Mariana Baldi, Frank G.A. de Bakker, Rodrigo Luís MelzThis study aims to analyse the strategic moves used by major tobacco corporations to thwart the ratification of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco…
Complements or substitutes? Domestic and international network search and SME ambidexterity
Joanne Wright, Antje Fiedler, Benjamin FathSmall and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) use networks to overcome knowledge deficiencies in pursuing innovation. However, balancing the cost and risk of growing networks…
BlackRock, Inc. (USA): An environmentally sustainable asset investor as it claims to be?
Mario Glowik, Waheed Akbar Bhatti, Agnieszka ChwialkowskaAgainst the background of sustainable finance, this study aims to address whether global asset management firms started transforming toward more environmentally friendly…
Taming wicked problems through international business policy: recommendations for addressing modern slavery
Matevž (Matt) RaškovićThe paper frames modern slavery as a global wicked problem and aims to provide a set of international business (IB) policy recommendations for taming it. The outlined approach can…
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hybridEditors:
- Professor Rudolf Sinkovics
- Professor Mehdi Boussebaa