Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 8 Issue 2

Betwixt or beyond the lines of conflict? Biculturalism as situated identity in multinational corporations

Susanne Blazejewski

Biculturals are portrayed as “ideal” boundary spanners and conflict mediators in MNC who switch between or transcend multiple cultural and/or organizational. The paper aims to…

An institutional‐cognitive perspective on headquarters‐subsidiary conflicts: The case of German companies in China

Geny Piotti

This paper aims to provide an institutional‐cognitive explanation for headquarters‐subsidiary conflicts based on institutionalism and social psychological studies on rationality.

Is CSR cognizant of the conflictuality of globalisation? A realist critique

Paul Sanders

The article aims to cast a novel light on the extended theoretical conceptualisation of corporate citizenship, in as far as it criticises the insufficient embedding of…

The international trade in conflict minerals: coltan

Christopher J. Ayres

This paper seeks to explicate issues of harm to humanity caused by the mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of coltan, a conflict mineral used in the manufacture of…

Change in Putin's Russia: Power, Money and People

Gregory Schwartz

Introduction from the Editors

Christoph Dorrenbacher, Joanne Roberts