critical perspectives on international business
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Fixing “bad” capitalism: why CSR and pro-good initiatives may not be enough
Elisa Giuliani, Federica NieriThe purpose of this paper is to provide a short commentary on the negative consequences of contemporary global capitalism on society. Despite the economic growth…
Missing “society” in institutional approaches as social value creation in India and China
Chang Hoon OhThis viewpoint aims to discuss some potential problems of institutional approaches such as social value creation in India and China.
Commentary: considering the social value of IB
Jonathan DohIn this viewpoint, the author critically aims to examine the papers by Sinkovics and Archie-Acheampong (2019, this issue) “The social value creation of MNEs – a literature…
A critical examination of the social impacts of large multinational corporations in the age of globalization
Hamid YeganehThis paper aims to offer a critical examination of the social impacts of large multinational corporations (MNCs) in the age of globalization.
The drama of corporate social responsibility communication
Maria Ivanova-Gongne, Stefan LångThis paper aims to investigate a company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) communications in a business network with regard to the flow of critical events related to CSR.
MNEs and human rights: from responsibilities to rights to governance
Stefan ZagelmeyerThis paper aims to explore the links between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and human rights abuses and review the development of international business (IB) and human…
CSR and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples in Canada
Brad S. LongThis paper aims to highlight blind spots in the discourse of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and stretch the boundaries of existent CSR frameworks within the…
Social value creation by multinational enterprises: The next “Big Question” for international business research?
Asmund RyghThis study aims to discuss an argument that the social value creation of multinational enterprises (MNEs), beyond creating economic value for the shareholders, could be…
Crossvergence of socially (ir)responsible employment practices in supplier firms
Britta HolzbergThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the notion of crossvergence from international human resource management (IHRM) as a conceptual lens for understanding and…
Political CSR initiatives as levers of marginalisation: The disconnect between representatives and the so-called represented in the mining industry
Clara Roussey, Nicolas Balas, Florence PalpacuerThe transformative potential of CSR is a far-reaching question. It has been analysed through the lens of the inclusion of stakeholders concerned by social and…
Multinational enterprises and economic inequality: A review and international business research agenda
Asmund RyghThis paper contributes to laying a foundation for a research agenda in international business (IB) on multinational enterprises (MNEs) and economic inequality, through an…
Evaluation of the performance and implications of multinationals: a framework of issues
Robert D. Pearce, Yuxuan TangThe purpose of this paper is to evaluate multinational enterprises’ (MNEs) performance and impact in contexts beyond their own internal objectives.
The effect of colonial legacies on Africa’s inward FDI: the case of UK FDI in Ghana
Collins Osei, Maktoba Omar, Tasneem Suliman JoosubThe purpose of this paper is to examine the role colonial ties play in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) to Ghana, several years after the official end of…
Transforming wood energy in Sweden and Chile: Climate change, environmental communication and a critical political ecology of international forestry companies
Cristián AlarcónThe purpose of this paper is to critically analyse and problematize the relations between international forestry companies and wood energy in the context of climate change…
Renewable energy market SMEs: antecedents of internationalization
Agnes Asemokha, Ali Ahi, Lasse Torkkeli, Sami SaarenketoThe purpose of this study is to provide a foundational understanding of the internationalization of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in the context of…
The social value creation of MNEs – a literature review across multiple academic fields
Noemi Sinkovics, Jason Archie-acheampongThis study aims to investigate how different academic fields within and outside of international business (IB) engage with the topics of social value creation in the…
Developing the business-society nexus through corporate responsibility expectations in India
Zinette Bergman, Yael Teschemacher, Bimal Arora, Rijit Sengupta, Klaus Michael Leisinger, Manfred Max BergmanThe Government of India dramatically altered the dynamic between business and society when it introduced the Companies Act 2013, which mandated firms to expend at least 2…
The tragedy of Mariana in management’s tragedy
Carolina Machado Saraiva, Pamella Thaís Magalhães FerreiraThis paper aims to unveil the spheres that were silenced by the media and academia with regard to the collapse of the Fundão Dam that occurred in 2015, in Mariana (Minas…
The effect of trade and monetary policy indicators on the development of renewable energy in Latin America
Dina Frutos-Bencze, Kujtim Avdiu, Stephan UngerThis paper aims to investigate the effect of monetary policy indicators on Latin America’s renewable energy development. The authors conduct several regressions as well as…
Confronting extractivism – the role of local struggles in the (un)making of place
Maria Ehrnström-FuentesThe purpose of this paper is to examine the politics involved in local struggles against forestry extractivism. The forestry sector is dependent on vast areas of land for…
Value-chain activities and individual wages
Laura Márquez-RamosThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of whether emerging economies benefit or suffer more because of value-chain activities than advanced…
Home (not so) sweet home: Domestic political uncertainty driving early internationalisation in the Spanish renewable energy context
Alex Rialp-Criado, Seyed Meysam Zolfaghari Ejlal Manesh, Øystein MoenThis paper aims to elaborate on the crucial effects that a seemingly detrimental policy change in Spain has had on the international entrepreneurial activities of domestic…
How misconduct in business contributes to understanding the supply side of corruption in international business
Myriam Ertz, Fahri Karakas, Frederick Stapenhurst, Rasheed Draman, Emine Sarigöllü, Myung-Soo JoThis study aims to offer a better understanding of supply side of bribery and corruption in an international business perspective by conceptualizing it in the narrower…
MNC involvement in social innovations: the issue of knowledge, networks and power
Christine Holmström Lind, Olivia Kang, Anna Ljung, Mats ForsgrenThis paper aims to develop a conceptual framework and presents a number of propositions relating to why and how multinational companies (MNCs) engage in social…
The limits and promises of embeddedness as a strategy for social value creation
Addisu A. Lashitew, Rob van TulderMultinational enterprises (MNEs) attempting to create social value in base of the pyramid (BoP) economies are encumbered by unique market and institutional barriers. To…
Chinese CSR standards and industrial policy in GPNs
Corinna Braun-MunzingerPublic policy to promote corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be a tool used by the state to promote the creation of social value by multinational enterprises (MNEs…
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- Prof Christoph Dörrenbächer
- Professor Snejina Michailova
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