Critical Perspectives on International Business
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Patterns of inconsistency: a literature review of empirical studies on the multinationality–performance relationship
Alice Schmuck, Katarina Lagerström, James SallisThis study aims to understand the performance implications of when a business internationalizes. Many managers take the performance implications of internationalization…
Time to call time on emerging markets: a critique and a new agenda
Yusaf AkbarFirst 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…
Natural resources and national productivity in Africa: are there differences in high and low globalized economies?
Solomon Nborkan Nakouwo, Daniel Ofori-Sasu, Baah Aye KusiThis paper aims to examine the effect of natural resources on the national productivity of high and low globalized economies in Africa.
Multinational orchestration: a meta-theoretical approach toward competitive advantage
Vaneet KaurThe purpose of this study is to critically evaluate the canonical contribution of the classical theories of multinational enterprises (MNE) and complement them with…
Talent management practices for firms’ absorptive capacity in a host country: a study of the Chinese diaspora in Russia
Marina Latukha, Yugui Zhang, Andrei Panibratov, Ksenia Arzhanykh, Liana RysakovaThe paper aims to explore the role of talent management (TM) practices in shaping firm’s absorptive capacity (AC) in the host country. Based on the data from…
The Third Space, mimics and ambivalence of HRM in the Global South: a postcolonial reading
Dhammika JayawardenaThis paper aims to accomplish two purposes: firstly, it revisits the “positional identity” – the ambivalent-hybrid disposition – of human resource management (HRM) in the…
Declining industries in emerging economies and firms’ strategies
Hao TanInternational 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…
Issue-based environmental sustainability factors in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry: the perspectives of academics
Mfon Solomon Jeremiah, Kassa Woldesenbet Beta, Raphael S. EtimThis study aims to develop a framework that enables the identification of sustainability factors from industry-specific environmental issues, and it proposes that these…
Truths and unfreedoms of regimes of insecurity and the resistance of the commons
Srinath Jagannathan, Patturaja SelvarajThis paper aims to explore narratives of insecurity to understand how the casualisation of the employment relationship makes life more fragile and precarious. The authors…
A comparative analysis of corporate social responsibility development in the USA and China
Maoliang Bu, Steven Rotchadl, Mengmeng BuThis paper aims to conduct a comparative study between the historical development of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in both the USA and China. It is motivated by…
“It’s hard for them to even understand what we are saying”(.) Language and power in the multinational workplace
Kyoungmi Kim, Jo AngouriThe 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…
Practice coordination by principles: a contemporary MNC approach to coordinating global practices
Alexander Kristiansen, Roger SchweizerIn the mainstream international business literature on multinational corporations (MNCs), an authoritative central headquarter (HQ) that transfers standardised practices…
Exploiting bullets: international business and the dynamics of war
Martin David OwensThe 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.
The nasty face of the liability of foreignness: MNCs and rent extraction
Asli KozanThis 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…
Contextual and linguistic challenges for French business schools to achieve international accreditation: experts as boundary-spanners
Mary Vigier, Michael BryantThe purpose of this paper is to explore the contextual and linguistic challenges that French business schools face when preparing for international accreditation and to…
Overcoming economic liminality: internationalization of B2B SME’s from a small emerging economy
Barney G. Pacheco, Syed AkhterCurrent research on small to medium enterprise (SME) internationalization has generated valuable insight but continues to overlook the activities of business-to-business…
The temporal dimension from the perspective of internationalisation: a theoretical discussion
Beatrice Zanellato Mayer, Dinora Eliete FlorianiThis paper aims to analyse how the temporal dimension is conceptualised in studies of the internationalisation process of firms and its implications. Theoretical models…
Between liability and asset: a critical review of 25 years of foreignness research in international business
Young Hoon An, Stefan Zagelmeyer, Asmund RyghThe 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…
Reversal of language hierarchy and the politics of translation in a multinational corporation
Jonna Ristolainen, Virpi Outila, Rebecca PiekkariThe purpose of this paper is to explain the reversal of language hierarchy in a Finnish multinational corporation (MNC) from a political perspective. This paper situated…
Englishization and the politics of translation
Natalie Victoria Wilmot, Susanne TietzeThis study aims to investigate the treatment of translation within the international business and management (IBM) literature to highlight colonialist assumptions…
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- Professor Rudolf Sinkovics
- Professor Mehdi Boussebaa
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