Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 19 Issue 2

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 Rysakova

The 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 representatives of…

Multinational orchestration: a meta-theoretical approach toward competitive advantage

Vaneet Kaur

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…

Declining industries in emerging economies and firms’ strategies

Hao Tan

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…

Patterns of inconsistency: a literature review of empirical studies on the multinationality–performance relationship

Alice Schmuck, Katarina Lagerström, James Sallis

This study aims to understand the performance implications of when a business internationalizes. Many managers take the performance implications of internationalization for…

Natural resources and national productivity in Africa: are there differences in high and low globalized economies?

Solomon Nborkan Nakouwo, Daniel Ofori-Sasu, Baah Aye Kusi

This paper aims to examine the effect of natural resources on the national productivity of high and low globalized economies in Africa.

The Third Space, mimics and ambivalence of HRM in the Global South: a postcolonial reading

Dhammika Jayawardena

This paper aims to accomplish two purposes: firstly, it revisits the “positional identity” – the ambivalent-hybrid disposition – of human resource management (HRM) in the…