Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 3 Issue 1

Introduction: militarization and international business

Peter Stokes, Ryan Bishop, John Phillips

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a special issue which looks into how militarization can be seen as an entity from which international business, management and…

The “militarizing” of organization and management studies: Reconnoitring the tensions – problems and possibilities for reshaping the terrain?

Peter Stokes

The purpose of this paper is to undertake an analysis of the engagement of organization and management literature with military and militarization themes and issues.

The disavowal of the military

Ryan Bishop, John Phillips

This conceptual paper is offered in place of a systematic analysis of militarization in organizations and the wider world. It proceeds on the understanding that militarization…

Shifting foundations: redrawing strategic management's military heritage

Stephen Cummings

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the limitations of what the field of strategic management sees as its military foundations.

Bonds of burden and bliss: the management of social relations in a peacekeeping organisation

Teemu Tallberg

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the gendered social bonds and the everyday organisational practices and discourses of peacekeepers.

The glass beads of global war: dealing, death and the policy analysis market

Geoff Lightfoot, Simon Lilley

The purpose of this paper is to subject the short lived “Policy Analysis Market” (PAM) – “a Pentagon betting market on terror attacks” – and media and academic reactions to it, to…

Emerald at 40

Rebecca Marsh