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Persistence of wicked problems in opaque global value chains Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Miguel Dindial, Hinrich Voss
Purpose This 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 inform and address many of society’s wicked problems, including modern slavery. Beyond supporting this position, the purpose of this paper is to highlight IB’s internal and ongoing debate regarding multinational ownership
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The Olympus scandal – the dark side of social networks and corporate culture Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Maria Ilieva
Purpose This 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 multiple generations of leaders. Design/methodology/approach A flexible pattern matching approach was used to identify matches and mismatches between behavioural theory in corporate governance and the patterns observed
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Multinational corporations and the blocking of trade unions in Germany Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Helene Langbein
Purpose This 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 given to European measures of flexibilizing company law and how they affect industrial relations in Germany. Design/methodology/approach After presenting a theoretical basis regarding industrial relations and corporate
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Bulls and bears: inscribing SOEs’ roles into the global climate agenda Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Olga Garanina, Daria Klishevich, Andrei Panibratov
Purpose This 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 are as domestic or international (de)carbonizers. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper that aims to advance understanding of the role of SOEs in addressing the global climate challenge. The authors
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Sharing the ownership in Peru and Mexico: the case of a French MNE prompting the SDGs achievement Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Nicolas Aubert, Miguel Cordova, Gonzalo Hernandez
Purpose This 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 countries with deep social and economic inequalities. Design/methodology/approach This is a qualitative case study which conducted interviews with representatives of the French MNE and its subsidiaries in Peru and
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Multinational firms as emissaries of decent work: worker responses to progressive HRM in a foreign retailer in Japan Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Ödül Bozkurt, Chul Chung, Norifumi Kawai, Motoko Honda-Howard
Purpose The 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) institutional entrepreneurs creating change in job quality and decent work to underprivileged workers in the low-pay retail sector in Japan. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on survey questionnaire data
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Stepping stones across a fast-flowing river: supporting emerging scholars from emerging markets Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Helena Barnard
Purpose International 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 contributing to the field. This study aims to explain those challenges and what the author has done to manage them. Design/methodology/approach This is a Reflexive piece in which the author makes sense of her own
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Toward a future discourse on global value chains Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Pushkar Pushp, Faisal Ahmed
Purpose The discourse on global value chains (GVC) is undergoing a transformation in terms of its conceptualisation, theorisation and pragmatic applications. Today, the production systems have become more complex as global economic order continues to witness marked geo-economic manoeuvring. Thus, the direction of discourse on GVC ought to move from mere theoretical propositions toward becoming more
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Apocalypse unleashed: a critical perspective on complexity science, catastrophes, and black swan events in international business Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Rolando Gonzales Martinez
Purpose The purpose of this study is to propose a methodological approach for modeling catastrophic consequences caused by black swan events, based on complexity science, and framed on Feyerabend’s anarchistic theory of knowledge. An empirical application is presented to illustrate the proposed approach. Design/methodology/approach Thom’s nonlinear differential equations of morphogenesis are used to
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Actor-agency and institutional complexity: multinational corporations’ strategies to combat the framework convention on tobacco control in Brazil Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Mariana Baldi, Frank G.A. de Bakker, Rodrigo Luís Melz
Purpose This 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 Control (FCTC) in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a detailed historical case study spanning 1988–2005 and encompassing the period leading up to Brazil’s FCTC ratification. The authors collected
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Complements or substitutes? Domestic and international network search and SME ambidexterity Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Joanne Wright, Antje Fiedler, Benjamin Fath
Purpose Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) use networks to overcome knowledge deficiencies in pursuing innovation. However, balancing the cost and risk of growing networks, especially internationally, with potential gains in knowledge remains a critical challenge. Searching for innovation knowledge in international and domestic networks can be complementary when learning is compressed or as
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The role of institutional and stakeholder interaction in integrated reporting policy development Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Rania AbuRaya
Purpose This study aims to investigate the role of institutional and stakeholder interaction in the development of integrated reporting policy by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). It helps advance the theory of integrated reporting and offers insights into its fundamental concepts and relevant issues. Design/methodology/approach A flexible pattern-matching qualitative research
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Moving beyond delinking, decoloniality and the pluriverse: reflections on the “decolonizing international business” debate Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Stefan Zagelmeyer
Purpose This viewpoint adds context and variety to the “decolonizing international business” debate by engaging in a discussion of the decolonial thinking approach and proposing a broader framework for analysing the link between international business (IB) activities on the one hand and colonisation and decolonisation on the other. The purpose of this paper is to inspire a more intensive engagement
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BlackRock, Inc. (USA): An environmentally sustainable asset investor as it claims to be? Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Mario Glowik, Waheed Akbar Bhatti, Agnieszka Chwialkowska
Purpose Against the background of sustainable finance, this study aims to address whether global asset management firms started transforming toward more environmentally friendly investment policies according to the Agenda for Sustainable Development launched by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply qualitative, explorative research methods through
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Critical perspective on consumer animosity amid Russia-Ukraine war Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Naeem Akhtar, Huda Khan, Umar Iqbal Siddiqi, Tahir Islam, Iva Atanassova
Purpose Consumer animosity in the wake of Russia–Ukraine war has gained significance in consumer behavior research. In this line, this study aims to examine the critical influence of consumer animosity in developing brand attitude and its ensuing outcomes – brand boycott behavior and brand-country image – the moderating role of perceived intrusiveness on the relationship between consumer animosity
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Partnering for impact: unveiling the dynamics of collaboration between social enterprises and impact investors in emerging economies Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Jeremiah Arigu Emmanuel, Chanaka Wijewardena, Hussain Gulzar Rammal, Priyan Pravin Khakhar
Purpose This study empirically aims to examine the collaboration between social enterprises (SEs) and impact investors (IIs), which are organisations with similar interests but with distinct logics, and in high demand in emerging economies with complex problems. Despite the significant economic contributions of these organisations, there have been limited studies examining how they collaborate in different
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Taming wicked problems through international business policy: recommendations for addressing modern slavery Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Matevž (Matt) Rašković
Purpose The 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 also guide IB policymaking to address other kinds of wicked problems. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper that reviews existing literature on wicked problems and integrates it with an IB policy
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Comparative capitalism and the empirical taxonomy of context: enhancing the institutionalist blueprint Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Drew Woodhouse, Andrew Johnston
Purpose 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 they “matter” for IB. Yet how institutions matter ultimately depends on how IB applies institutional theory. It is argued that institutional-based research is dominated by a narrow set of approaches, largely overlooking
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Decolonizing international business Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Mehdi Boussebaa
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to encourage scholars of international business (IB) to engage with the “decolonizing the university” project and reflect on what decolonizing might mean for IB research and education. The paper also argues that it is particularly important for IB scholars to join the decolonizing project given that the field’s main object of study – the multinational enterprise
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Moral laxity – the cognitive gap between true and pseudo corporate social responsibility Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Akram Hatami, Jan Hermes, Naser Firoozi
Purpose To succeed in today’s dynamic and unpredictable business world, businesses are increasingly required to gain the trust of and inform the society in which they operate about the social and environmental consequences of their actions. Corporations’ claims regarding the responsibility and ethicality of their actions, however, have been shown to be contradictory to some degree. We define corporations’
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The source of MNE superiority from within or from outside? – A response to “the importance of being transnational” Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Mats Forsgren, Mo Yamin
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to respond to the comments by professor Ietto-Gillies on the paper on “The MNE as the Crown of Creation?” Design/methodology/approach The authors argue that the key points made in the commentary are broadly complementary to the arguments set out in the “Crown of Creation?” Findings The authors agree with the commentary that sources of advantages of multinationality
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The importance of being … transnational Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Grazia Ietto-Gillies
Purpose The paper takes the lead from Forsgren and Yamin (2022), “The MNE as the ‘crown of creation’?: A commentary on mainstream theories of multi-national enterprises”, and accepts that the MNE can, indeed, be seen as the “crown of creation” in the world of business. The purpose of the paper is to show that this is due to advantages of multi/transnationality that must be sought outside rather than
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Framing biases and language choices: how the Japanese media broadcast foreign aid policy for Africa Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Faith Hatani
Purpose 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 (either Japanese or English) was used in the broadcasts. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a qualitative single case-study design and conducts a content analysis. The study uses news videos about the fifth Tokyo
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Moving up the value chain with South-South cooperation for trade and technology? An analysis of India’s trade with East Africa Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Amrita Saha, Filippo Bontadini, Alistair Cowan
Purpose 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, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. It aims to analyse the role of SSTT in providing support to targeted sectors. Design/methodology/approach The paper examines SSTT, focusing on India and East Africa over a specific period (2000–2016)
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Compassion in the international business studies – prospects for future research Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Michael Jakobsen, Verner Worm, Sven Horak
Purpose This paper aims to introduce the concept of compassion to the field of international business studies. As international business activities continuously intensify and hence generate a work environment characterized by cultural heterogeneity and pluralism, the notion of compassion in a cross-cultural context can be regarded a key skill for employees in internationally operating firms to enable
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The MNE as the “crown of creation”?: a commentary on mainstream theories of multinational enterprises Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Mats Forsgren, Mo Yamin
Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: to analyse what theories assume about multinational enterprises (MNEs) when they claim these are superior and to discuss possible explanations for why MNE superiority seems to be dominant in the international business (IB) research field. Design/methodology/approach A common theme in mainstream IB theories is that multinational enterprises (MNEs) are superior
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Internal legitimacy crises: the roles of the regulatory focus and relational social capital of headquarters and subsidiaries Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Jens Gammelgaard, Rajesh Kumar
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to further the understanding of how the regulatory foci of the multinational enterprises (MNE) headquarters and the subsidiary lead to internal legitimacy crises. This paper discusses how pragmatic and moral legitimacy crises affect relational social capital. Design/methodology/approach The paper is conceptual. Findings This paper highlights the importance of internal
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COVID and challenges in the context of family firms internationalisation: a review and emerging research pathways Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Katerina Kampouri, Yannis Hajidimitriou
Purpose 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 the post-COVID era, and second, to reflect on emerging research directions and contextual factors that should be taken into account in future explorations for the benefit of FF scholars who will study post-COVID FF
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Money laundering as a transnational business phenomenon: a systematic review and future agenda Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Emilia A. Isolauri, Irfan Ameer
Purpose Money laundering continues to emerge as a transnational phenomenon that has harmful consequences for the global economy and society. Despite the theoretical and practical magnitude of money laundering, international business (IB) research on the topic is scarce and scattered across multiple disciplines. Accordingly, this study aims to advance an integrated understanding of money laundering
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International business research on “emerging economies”: a critical review and recommendations Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Dana L. Ott, Snejina Michailova, Anna Earl, Siah Hwee Ang
Purpose Over the past few decades, examinations of emerging economies (EEs) have received increasing attention in international business (IB) research. This article takes a critical stance on some of the re-occurring shortcomings of that research. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a critical literature review of 493 articles on EEs that have been published in five top-tier IB academic
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Time to call time on emerging markets: a critique and a new agenda Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Yusaf Akbar
Purpose First developed in the 1980s, one of the most essential ideas in international business research has the been the concept of emerging markets. Since the start of the twenty-first century, empirical research has shown that there is no clear correlation between long-term real growth in gross domestic product and real equity returns in firms active in emerging markets. The purpose of this paper
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Patterns of inconsistency: a literature review of empirical studies on the multinationality–performance relationship Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Alice Schmuck, Katarina Lagerström, James Sallis
Purpose This study aims to understand the performance implications of when a business internationalizes. Many managers take the performance implications of internationalization for granted. Whether seeking a broader customer base or cost reduction through cross-border outsourcing, the overwhelming belief is that internationalization leads to higher profits. Design/methodology/approach This paper offers
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The Third Space, mimics and ambivalence of HRM in the Global South: a postcolonial reading Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Dhammika Jayawardena
Purpose This paper aims to accomplish two purposes: firstly, it revisits the “positional identity” – the ambivalent-hybrid disposition – of human resource management (HRM) in the (postcolonial) Global South. Secondly, it seeks to reframe the role of Southern agents of the epistemic community of HRM, particularly human resource (HR) managers, in managing people in the South. Design/methodology/approach
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Natural resources and national productivity in Africa: are there differences in high and low globalized economies? Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Solomon Nborkan Nakouwo, Daniel Ofori-Sasu, Baah Aye Kusi
Purpose This paper aims to examine the effect of natural resources on the national productivity of high and low globalized economies in Africa. Design/methodology/approach This study uses two-step generalized method of moments dynamic panel data of 30 African economies between 2006 and 2016 to achieve the purpose of the study. Findings The results suggest that natural resources promote productivity
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Working toward the sustainable development goals in earnest – critical international business perspectives on designing and implementing better interventions Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Noemi Sinkovics, Luciana Marques Vieira, Rob van Tulder
Purpose The purpose of this study is to reflect on the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) framework as a milestone for concerted efforts to tackle the underlying grand challenges. Design/methodology/approach This viewpoint is predominantly conceptual in nature. However, this study adapts the University of Auckland's SDG key words to broadly map existing international business research
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Declining industries in emerging economies and firms’ strategies Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Hao Tan
Purpose International business (IB) and strategy research in the context of emerging economies (EEs) has focused traditionally on the strategies of firms in and from those markets to seize opportunities arising from their economic growth. This paper aims to demonstrate that declining industries in EEs are an important but overlooked research context for critical IB scholarship and to illuminate special
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Multinational orchestration: a meta-theoretical approach toward competitive advantage Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Vaneet Kaur
Purpose The purpose of this study is to critically evaluate the canonical contribution of the classical theories of multinational enterprises (MNE) and complement them with congruous multi-theoretical lenses to a propose a meta-theoretical view for competitive advantage. The proposed framework is applied to fundamental questions of MNE, and exploratory insights are revealed. Design/methodology/approach
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Issue-based environmental sustainability factors in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry: the perspectives of academics Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Mfon Solomon Jeremiah, Kassa Woldesenbet Beta, Raphael S. Etim
Purpose This study aims to develop a framework that enables the identification of sustainability factors from industry-specific environmental issues, and it proposes that these factors, in turn, can influence the corporate environmental performance (CEP) of firms in such an industry. It also validates the factor identification aspect of the framework. Design/methodology/approach The paper starts by
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Truths and unfreedoms of regimes of insecurity and the resistance of the commons Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Srinath Jagannathan, Patturaja Selvaraj
Purpose This paper aims to explore narratives of insecurity to understand how the casualisation of the employment relationship makes life more fragile and precarious. The authors engage in an inquiry about how multinational enterprises (MNEs) structure precariousness for workers in emerging economies. The authors attempt to understand how workers analyse their experiences of precariousness and what
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“It’s hard for them to even understand what we are saying”(.) Language and power in the multinational workplace Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Kyoungmi Kim, Jo Angouri
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of language ideologies in negotiating organisational relationships in a Korean multinational company (MNC). By adopting an interactional sociolinguistics (IS) approach, this paper illustrates how language becomes part of a mechanism of negotiating group membership and of perpetuating or challenging power asymmetries through social and ideological
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Public procurement – price-taker or market-shaper? Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Sandra G. Hamilton
Purpose This paper examines the role of government procurement as a social policy mechanism within a multilateral open trading system. Government regulations globally are being transformed to foster more responsible business conduct in multinational enterprises (MNEs). Yet, concern that sustainability may present a discriminatory barrier to trade has stalled the progress of sustainable public procurement
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Contextual and linguistic challenges for French business schools to achieve international accreditation: experts as boundary-spanners Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Mary Vigier, Michael Bryant
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the contextual and linguistic challenges that French business schools face when preparing for international accreditation and to shed light on the different ways in which experts facilitate these accreditation processes, particularly with respect to how they capitalize on their contextual and linguistic boundary-spanning competences. Design/methodology/approach
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The nasty face of the liability of foreignness: MNCs and rent extraction Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Asli Kozan
Purpose This study aims to clarify the factors that act as a buffer to rent extraction from multi-national corporations (MNCs) in exchange relationships with the host country’s political actors. Design/methodology/approach This study proposes a conceptual model of the factors that determine rent extraction by host country political actors from MNCs. The model identifies the sources of power the MNC
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Is it possible to improve the international business action towards the sustainable development goals? Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Andrea Celone, Antonello Cammarano, Mauro Caputo, Francesca Michelino
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate possible improvements in the pursuit of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by multinational enterprises (MNEs) through an analysis of the literature. Design/methodology/approach A critical framework based on Gleicher’s formula for change is provided after conducting a systematic literature review. Findings The best way to pursue the SDGs is
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Practice coordination by principles: a contemporary MNC approach to coordinating global practices Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Alexander Kristiansen, Roger Schweizer
Purpose In the mainstream international business literature on multinational corporations (MNCs), an authoritative central headquarter (HQ) that transfers standardised practices to its subsidiaries remains the norm. This study aims to explore how MNCs coordinate their management practices through principles. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on empirical findings from a qualitative in-depth
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Exploiting bullets: international business and the dynamics of war Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-09-27 Martin David Owens
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically review the existing research on the intersection between war and international business (IB) and to map out a future research agenda. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on corporate examples and extant literature within IB, political science and international relations, the paper provides an introduction to the main concepts of war, a review of the
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How can international business research contribute towards the sustainable development goals? Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-09-13 Asmund Rygh, Eleni Chiarapini, María Vallejo Segovia
Purpose Realising the sustainable development goals (SDGs) will require substantial efforts from both governments, businesses, civil society and academic researchers. This paper aims to discuss the contributions that the international business (IB) discipline can make to promoting the SDGs. Design/methodology/approach The paper is conceptual. Findings The authors argue that IB can contribute to promoting
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The standalone and resource-bundling effects of government and nongovernment institutional support on early internationalizing firms’ performance Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-08-28 Anisur R. Faroque, Hafiza Sultana, Jashim Uddin Ahmed, Farhad Uddin Ahmed, Mahabubur Rahman
Purpose This study aims to analyze the individual and joint effects of institutional support by government and nongovernment institutions on early internationalizing firms’ (EIFs) performance. It also investigated the moderating impact of firm age and size on the institutional support-firms’ export performance relationships. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 705 EIFs in the apparel
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Between liability and asset: a critical review of 25 years of foreignness research in international business Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-08-19 Young Hoon An, Stefan Zagelmeyer, Asmund Rygh
Purpose The dialectics of liabilities of foreignness (LOF) and assets of foreignness (AOF) have led to further explorations of what it means for an organisation to be foreign. This paper reviews, synthesises and contextualises recent research on both the challenges and benefits of foreignness, to develop a balanced and integrated view of this international business concept. Design/methodology/approach
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The temporal dimension from the perspective of internationalisation: a theoretical discussion Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Beatrice Zanellato Mayer, Dinora Eliete Floriani
Purpose This paper aims to analyse how the temporal dimension is conceptualised in studies of the internationalisation process of firms and its implications. Theoretical models such as U-Model and INV explain the process of internationalisation as dynamic; nonetheless, time is approached as an underlying aspect of the process. In this essay, time is brought to the spotlight since, despite its strategic
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Ecocentric management mindset: a framework for corporate sustainability Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-08-14 Cecilia Lobo Araujo, Marc Eric Barda Picavet, Cristina Aparecida Pires de Souza Sartoretto, Enrico Dalla Riva, Paulo Sodre Hollaender
Purpose This study aims to propose a framework to drive organizations, and particularly multinational enterprises, to understand and internalize a sustainable mindset for implementing efficient and effective corporate sustainability initiatives and helping them achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs). Design/methodology/approach The framework is based on the bidirectional iterative process of
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Overcoming economic liminality: internationalization of B2B SME’s from a small emerging economy Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-08-07 Barney G. Pacheco, Syed Akhter
Purpose Current research on small to medium enterprise (SME) internationalization has generated valuable insight but continues to overlook the activities of business-to-business (B2B) SMEs located in small emerging economies. This study aims to fill this gap by testing the applicability of the ownership, location and internalization (OLI) framework to understand the internationalization strategies
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Offshore outsourcing of R&D to emerging markets: information systems as tools of neo-colonial control Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-07-16 Zehra Sayed, Henrik Agndal
Purpose This paper analyzes how information systems (IS) can serve as tools of neo-colonial control in offshore outsourcing of research and development work. It draws on critical work examining business and knowledge process outsourcing. Design/methodology/approach The paper reports an empirical study of how laboratory information management systems (LIMS) shape offshore outsourcing practices involving
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Transnationality in the XXI century. Concept and indicators Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-07-16 Grazia Ietto-Gillies
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of major structural changes on the conceptualization of the transnational corporation (TNC) based on foreign direct investment (FDI) and on indicators of transnationality. Design/methodology/approach Analysis of three major structural changes which impact the current conception of transnationality. They are: the rise of digital companies; the
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Ethnography of economic globalization in Mapuche and forest territory of South-Central Chile Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-07-13 Noelia Carrasco Henríquez
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an ethnographic discussion surrounding the sociocultural dimensions of the contemporary economy, using the dynamics of monoculture expansion into the indigenous territories of South-Central Chile as an empirical reference. Design/methodology/approach From an ethnographic approach, the paper systematizes some ideas about the difference and inequality that
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Social impact investing as a neoliberal construction: ego and altruism in the post-colonial space of Oaxaca, Mexico Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Farzad Haider Alvi
Purpose This paper examines social impact investing (SII), a growing source of investment from the Global North to the Global South celebrated as a new way of doing good in low-income countries, but bearing elements of neoliberalism that can reify post-colonial contexts. Design/methodology/approach A microfoundational, autoethnographic approach is used based on the author’s experiences and emotional
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The Covid-19 pandemic: towards a societally engaged IB perspective Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Christoph Dörrenbächer, Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Florian Becker-Ritterspach, Mehdi Boussebaa, Louise Curran, Alice de Jonge, Zaheer Khan
Purpose This viewpoint takes up the Covid-19 pandemic as a trigger for a research agenda around societally engaged international business (IB) research. Design/methodology/approach The paper is organized as a viewpoint. First, it provides an overview of Covid-19 research in business and management and IB in particular. Second, it introduces a societally engaged IB perspective, around poverty and human
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From Ebola to COVID-19: what explains institutionalized manias and the ultimate preference for non-optimal solutions in global health governance? Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Frederick Ahen
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how “manias” in global health governance lead to health inequalities even before, during and in the aftermath of acute health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. “Manias” as used here refer to obsessive ir/rational behaviors, misguided policy/strategic choices and the exercise of power that benefit the major global health actors at the expense of
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International relationships and resilience of New Zealand SME exporters during COVID-19 Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Benjamin Fath, Antje Fiedler, Noemi Sinkovics, Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor
Purpose This paper aims to empirically investigate how small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have engaged with international network partners during COVID-19 and how the crisis has changed network relationships and resilience depending on pre-COVID relationship strength and, secondarily, on opportunity outlook in a market. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on 14 qualitative interviews
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“Start-up Nation” vs “the Republic of Samsung”: power and politics in the partner choice discourse in Israeli–Korean business collaboration Critical perspectives on international business Pub Date : 2021-05-13 Irina Lyan
Purpose This paper aims to propose to politicize partner choice as a discourse that rationalizes, legitimizes and justifies the choice of partners by underlining economic, cultural and institutional differences to (re)create power relations. By reconceptualizing partner choice as a discourse, the paper challenges the established view of partner choice according to international business and management