Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 20 Issue 3

Taming wicked problems through international business policy: recommendations for addressing modern slavery

Matevž (Matt) Rašković

The paper frames modern slavery as a global wicked problem and aims to provide a set of international business (IB) policy recommendations for taming it. The outlined approach can…

Persistence of wicked problems in opaque global value chains

Miguel Dindial, Hinrich Voss

This paper engages with the important work of Raškovic (2024). The authors agree with Raškovic’s (2024) argument that international business (IB) policy is well positioned to…

How wicked is modern slavery: a consideration of Raškovic’s “taming wicked problems”

Brent Burmester

This is a response to “Taming wicked problems”, a paper recently published in CPOIB in which modern slavery is framed as a wicked problem. The purpose of this study is to convey…

Re-solving wicked problems in global value chains: how probing into modern slavery can advance MNE research and support better policymaking

Matevž (Matt) Rašković

This paper aims to respond to the response pieces by Burmester (2024) and by Dindial and Voss (2024) to the original paper on “Taming wicked problems through international…

Complements or substitutes? Domestic and international network search and SME ambidexterity

Joanne Wright, Antje Fiedler, Benjamin Fath

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) use networks to overcome knowledge deficiencies in pursuing innovation. However, balancing the cost and risk of growing networks…

Toward a future discourse on global value chains

Pushkar Pushp, Faisal Ahmed

The discourse on global value chains (GVC) is undergoing a transformation in terms of its conceptualisation, theorisation and pragmatic applications. Today, the production systems…