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How can international business research contribute towards the sustainable development goals?
Asmund Rygh, Eleni Chiarapini, María Vallejo SegoviaRealising the sustainable development goals (SDGs) will require substantial efforts from both governments, businesses, civil society and academic researchers. This paper…
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…
Ecocentric management mindset: a framework for corporate sustainability
Cecilia Lobo Araujo, Marc Eric Barda Picavet, Cristina Aparecida Pires de Souza Sartoretto, Enrico Dalla Riva, Paulo Sodre HollaenderThis study aims to propose a framework to drive organizations, and particularly multinational enterprises, to understand and internalize a sustainable mindset for…
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…
The standalone and resource-bundling effects of government and nongovernment institutional support on early internationalizing firms’ performance
Anisur R. Faroque, Hafiza Sultana, Jashim Uddin Ahmed, Farhad Uddin Ahmed, Mahabubur RahmanThis study aims to analyze the individual and joint effects of institutional support by government and nongovernment institutions on early internationalizing firms’ (EIFs…
Post-merger integration and subsidiary roles in Chinese MNCs – the case of Chinese M&As in Germany
Ursula Mense-PetermannThis paper adds to the literature on outward Foreign Direct Investments by Chinese Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in advanced economies. Its objective is threefold: to…
Offshore outsourcing of R&D to emerging markets: information systems as tools of neo-colonial control
Zehra Sayed, Henrik AgndalThis 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…
Ethnography of economic globalization in Mapuche and forest territory of South-Central Chile
Noelia Carrasco HenríquezThe purpose of this paper is to propose an ethnographic discussion surrounding the sociocultural dimensions of the contemporary economy, using the dynamics of monoculture…
International opportunity development of born global firms: the role of institutions
Rubina Romanello, Masoud Karami, Stephan Gerschewski, Natasha Evers, Cici Xiao HeThe purpose of the study is to investigate the international opportunity development process of born global firms embedded in two different institutional contexts: China…
Challenges of network interaction in managing sustainable development projects in developing countries: case of an international consulting company
Olga Dziubaniuk, Maria Ivanova-Gongne, Ekaterina BerdyshevaThis study aims to explore the challenges and complexities of interaction in international stakeholder networks within the context of projects focused on the…
Transnationality in the XXI century. Concept and indicators
Grazia Ietto-GilliesThe 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…
Social impact investing as a neoliberal construction: ego and altruism in the post-colonial space of Oaxaca, Mexico
Farzad Haider AlviThis 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…
“Start-up Nation” vs “the Republic of Samsung”: power and politics in the partner choice discourse in Israeli–Korean business collaboration
Irina LyanThis paper aims to propose to politicize partner choice as a discourse that rationalizes, legitimizes and justifies the choice of partners by underlining economic…
How far are we from understanding corruption? The effect of cultural distance on corruption perception
Mike Szymanski, Ivan Valdovinos, Evodio KalteneckerThis study aims to examine the relationship between cultural distances between countries and their scores in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), which is the most…
What shapes industrial relations in foreign affiliates? Comparative case study results from Germany
Christoph Dörrenbächer, Heinz Tüselmann, Heinz-Rudolf Meissner, Qi CaoThe purpose of this paper is to develop an analytical framework to categorize the quality of industrial relations in foreign affiliates. Using the case of foreign…
Internalising and internationalising country specific CSR practices of a Japanese multinational company
Chamila R. Perera, Chandana R. HewegeApplying mainstream, Western-centric corporate social responsibility (CSR) theory to make sense of CSR practices of multinational firms of non-Western origin seems to be…
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…
MNCs’ open international strategy–local dynamics: transfer of German “vocational education and training” to emerging economies
Martina FuchsThis paper aims to examine multinational companies’ (MNCs) international transfer strategies of German vocational education and training (VET) and examines the dynamics in…
Contesting extractivism: international business and people’s struggles against extractive industries
Rafael Kruter Flores, Steffen Bōhm, Maria MisoczkyThis paper aims to introduce the special issue “Extractivism and the Links between International Business and People’s Struggles,” which is part of our joint research…
Multilevel theorizing in international business: the case of research on strategy implementation in MNCs
Aušrinė Šilenskytė, Adam SmaleThis paper aims to illustrate why an understanding of how levels of analysis interact is an essential part of multilevel research in the field of international business…
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…
Skill formation, automation and governance: comparing German and Korean automotive manufacturers in Central-Eastern Europe
Martin Krzywdzinski, Hyung Je JoBuilding on neo-institutionalism models of the transfer of human resource management (HRM) practices within multinational companies, this paper aims to analyze the…
International mega-corruption Inc.: the structural violence against sustainable development
Frederick AhenThis paper aims to determine the underlying structural foundations that explain why mega (large-scale) corruption exists in an ever-more sophisticated form and how and why…
Analyzing the reliability of Chinese outward FDI studies: a replication approach
John Anderson, Dylan Sutherland, Fan Zhang, Yangyang ZanMany academic studies in international business empirically test the determinants of Chinese outward (O)FDI. A weakness with these studies is the limited critical…
International entrepreneurial orientation amidst post-colonial upheaval: entrepreneurs during the Hong Kong Umbrella Revolution
Farzad Haider AlviThis paper examines the internationalization response of entrepreneurs in Hong Kong to the institutional upheaval of the Umbrella Revolution (UR), analyzed through the…
“We care about others”: discursive constructions of corruption vis-à-vis national/cultural identity in Indonesia’s business-government relations
Kanti PertiwiThis paper aims to problematize existing conceptualization of corruption by presenting alternative perspectives on corruption in Indonesia through the lens of…
Strategic responses of MNCs in emerging markets: addressing institutional voids associated with informal institutions
Anne H. KochThe purpose of this paper is to address the question how multinational corporations (MNCs) can respond to different domains of formal voids associated with informal…
Uncovering missing links in global value chain research – and implications for corporate social responsibility and international business
Merel Serdijn, Ans Kolk, Luc FransenAmidst burgeoning attention for global value chains (GVCs) in international business (IB), this paper aims to identify a clear “missing link” in this literature and…
Contemporary restructuring trends in European multinational corporations: rationale and impact on labour and workers’ participation
Christoph Dörrenbächer, Mike Geppert, Aline HoffmannThis paper addresses the so far hardly understood contemporary restructuring trends in European Multinational corporations (MNCs), their rationales and their…
A critical discourse analysis to explain the failure of BoP strategies
Nancy E. LandrumThis paper aims to highlight differences between business and non-business literature regarding base of the pyramid (BoP) and subsistence contexts and reveal discourse’s…
Financing Russian firms: Ireland and round tripping
Cillian Doyle, Jim StewartIreland has become one of the main sources of finance for Russian based firms. The purpose of this paper is to quantify and analyse these flows to examine governance and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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- Prof Christoph Dörrenbächer
- Professor Rudolf Sinkovics
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