Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 10 Issue 4

Brazilian corporations, the state and transnational activity: introduction to the special issue

Andreas Nölke

The aim of the paper is to introduce a special issue which looks at the collaboration between the Brazilian state and Brazilian corporations with regard to the transnational…

OFDI promotion policies in emerging economies: the Brazilian and Chinese strategies

Luiz Carlos Zalaf Caseiro, Gilmar Masiero

– This paper aims to analyze how the Brazilian and Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) policies can contribute to the economic development of their home countries.

Brazil’s ruling party and the internationalization of Brazilian companies: Conflicts with Bolivia and Ecuador during Lula’s presidency

Jorge A. Malaver Copara

This paper aims to analyze Brazil’s governmental positions during two international conflicts involving major Brazilian firms and two South American countries: the nationalization…

The Brazilian sub-imperialist strategy of regional insertion

Maria Ceci Misoczky, Takeyoshi Imasato

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Brazilian strategy of regional insertion with the support of the Marxist Theory of Dependency (MTD), represented by the work of Ruy…

The transformation of state-business relations in an emerging economy: The case of Brazilian agribusiness

Kristen Hopewell

The aim of this paper is to revisit the Brazilian case in an effort to shed light on how state-business relations have been transformed in the contemporary era of globalization…

The political trajectory of the Brazilian CSR movement

Alejandro Milcíades Peña

This paper aims to examine the origins and trajectory of the Brazilian corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement in relation to political economic developments in Brazil…