Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 20 Issue 5

Vulnerability, resilience and empowerment: the tripartite typology for addressing modern slavery in global value chains

Krzysztof Kubacki, Natalia Szablewska, Dariusz Siemieniako, Linda Brennan

Modern slavery in global value chains is an emerging topic of interest across various fields, including in international business, but is often fragmented in its approach. This…

The impact of institutions, industry, and scale of operations on foreign subsidiaries’ political connections: evidence from Saudi Arabia and Egypt

Ashjan Baokbah, Vikrant Shirodkar

Research on the political connections of multinational enterprises’ (MNEs’) subsidiaries in emerging host countries has been growing. The purpose of this paper is to integrate…

Broad and alien is the field: dependence and heterogeneity in management research practices in Latin America

Omar Manky, Nattaly López

This study aims to explore the ways in which management scholars affiliated with Peruvian universities navigate the tensions between global expectations and local realities in…

“Win-lose” globalization and the weaponization of economic policies by nation-states

Sergio Mariotti

After decades of hypergrowth, since the 2008 global financial crisis there has been a deceleration of globalization and a partial jamming of its main engines (trade and foreign…

A social identity perspective on language and researchers’ cultural identities in qualitative interviews in multinational corporations

Huiping Xian, Yingying He, Fanke Huang, Paul Latreille

This study aims to advance knowledge in international management research about how researchers’ cultural identity in fieldwork encounters may be grounded in the choice of…