Banerjee and Linstead (2001)Banerjee, S. B., & Linstead, S. (2001). Globalization, multiculturalism and other fictions: Colonialism for the new millennium? Organization, 8(4), 683-722. https://doi.org/10.1177/135050840184006 https://doi.org/10.1177/135050840184006...
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Organization |
The emergence of a global culture marks the transformation to a culture of consumption, in which successful management of diversity effectively perpetuates global colonialism. |
Cairns (2005)Cairns, G. (2005). Perspectives on a personal critique of international business. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 1(1), 43-55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17422040510577898 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17422040510577...
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CPoIB |
Exposes challenges exemplars of “good” management practice from the managerial literature through engagement with a range of discipline-specific texts. |
French and Wokutch (2005)French, L., & Wokutch, R. E. (2005). Child workers, globalization, and International Business ethics: A case study in Brazil's export-oriented shoe industry. Business Ethics Quarterly, 15(4), 615-640. https://doi.org/10.5840/beq200515443 https://doi.org/10.5840/beq200515443...
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Business Ethics Quarterly |
Child workers in the shoe industry are integrated into the global order. Efforts to end this work have been frustrated by locals; Americans see it as hazardous conductions, while locals see it as a benign activity. |
Daye (2009)Daye, R. (2009). Poverty, race relations, and the practices of International Business: A study of Fiji. Journal of Business Ethics, 89(1), 115-127. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27749762 https://www.jstor.org/stable/27749762...
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Journal of Business Ethics |
MNCs in Fiji should conduct their business in ways that genuinely add economic value, avoid doing social harm. |
Kaplinsky and Morris (2009)Kaplinsky, R., & Morris, M. (2009). Chinese FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa: Engaging with large Dragons. European Journal of Development Research, 21(4), 551-569. https://doi.org/10.1057/ejdr.2009.24 https://doi.org/10.1057/ejdr.2009.24...
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European Journal of Development Research |
Sub-Saharan African countries should maximize the opportunities by adopting a similarly integrated and focused response to Chinese investors who seek to draw on natural resources. |
Westwood and Jack (2007)Westwood, R., & Jack, G. (2007). Manifesto for a post-colonial international business and management studies. Critical Perspectives on International Business and Management Studies, 3(3), 246-265. https://doi.org/10.1108/17422040710775021 https://doi.org/10.1108/1742204071077502...
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CPoIB |
It finds the field is currently imprisoned within a limited and limiting paradigmatic and institutional location. |
Faria et al. (2010)Faria, A., Ibarra-Colado, E., & Guedes, A. L. (2010). Internationalization of management, neoliberalism and the Latin America challenge. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 6(2/3), 97-115. https://doi.org/10.1108/17422041011049932 https://doi.org/10.1108/1742204101104993...
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CPoIB |
The interdisciplinary dialogue goes beyond borders established by the “center” and imposed on subalterns. This might be taken as a particular way of putting into practice a decolonial Latin perspective. |
Guedes and Faria (2010)Guedes, A. L., & Faria, A. (2010). International management, business and relations in Latin America. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 6(2/3), 145-161. https://doi.org/10.1108/17422041011049969 https://doi.org/10.1108/1742204101104996...
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CPoIB |
Critique from a universal perspective that does not differentiate IB and IM in the Anglo-American literature is important but constrains the appraisal of national and regional. |
Ibarra-Colado et al. (2010)Ibarra-Colado, E., Faria, A., & Guedes, A. L. (2010). Introduction to the special issue on “Critical international management and international critical management: perspectives from Latin America”. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 6(2/3), 86-96. https://doi.org/10.1108/17422041011049923 https://doi.org/10.1108/1742204101104992...
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CPoIB |
Introduce Latin perspectives to break down the universalistic point of view of CMS, introducing a “pluriversalistic” geopolitical position to consider alternate projects to neoliberal globalization. |
Mandiola (2010)Mandiola, M. P. (2010). Latin America’s critical management? A liberation genealogy. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 6(2/3), 162-176. https://doi.org/10.1108/17422041011049978 https://doi.org/10.1108/1742204101104997...
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CPoIB |
Proposes a new articulation of the liberation concept as a resistance response facing a new form of oppression within current Latin affairs. |
McKenna (2011)McKenna, S. (2011). A critical analysis of North American business leaders’ neocolonial discourse: Global fears and local consequences. Organization, 18(3), 387-406. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508411398728 https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508411398728...
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Organization |
The discourse of (neo)colonialism in the construction of the Other within the context of a view of China and India as developing and progressing, albeit North American leaders condemn their exploitative social and economic systems. |
Roberts and Dörrenbächer (2012)Roberts, J., & Dörrenbächer, C. (2012). The futures of critical perspectives on international business. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 8(1), 4-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/17422041211197530 https://doi.org/10.1108/1742204121119753...
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CPoIB |
Taking stock of recent reflections on the future of IB is useful in determining possible topics for future contributions to CPoIB. |
Selmier and Oh (2012)Selmier, W. T., II, & Oh, C. H. (2012). International business complexity and the internationalization of languages. Business Horizons, 55(2), 189-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2011.11.006 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2011.11...
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Business Horizons |
Language in international business shows a hierarchy, with English the most inexpensive among major trade languages. |
Boussebaa and Morgan (2014)Boussebaa, M., & Morgan, G. (2014). Pushing the frontiers of critical international business studies: The multinational as a neo-imperial space. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 10(1/2), 96-106. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-11-2013-0046 https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-11-2013-00...
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CPoIB |
There is a lack of “criticality” in context/power research and lack of attention to the neo-imperial character of MNCs with specific regard to their management and organization. |
Boussebaa et al. (2014)Boussebaa, M., Sinha, S., & Gabriel, Y. (2014). Englishization in offshore call centers: A postcolonial perspective. Journal of International Business Studies, 45, 1152-1169. https://doi.org/10.1057/jibs.2014.25 https://doi.org/10.1057/jibs.2014.25...
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Journal of International Business Studies |
Corporate Englishization does not merely overcome or, conversely, worsen transnational communication problems; it also (re)produces colonial-style power relations between the “Anglo-sphere” and the “Rest”. |
Geppert and Dörrenbächer (2014)Geppert, M., & Dörrenbächer, C. (2014). Politics and power within multinational corporations: Mainstream studies, emerging critical approaches and suggestions for future research. International Journal of Management Reviews, 16(2), 226-244. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12018 https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12018...
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International Journal of Management Reviews |
It is necessary a more micro-political perspective and focusing on the micro-foundations of power relations in MNCs. |
Aguilera et al. (2017)Aguilera, R. V., Ciravegna, L., Cuervo-Cazurra, & Gonzalez-Perez, M. A. (2017). Multilatinas and the internationalization of Latin American firms. Journal of World Business, 52(4), 447-460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2017.05.006 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2017.05.00...
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Journal of World Business |
Latin America is generating new ideas that contribute to a better understanding of how the home country shapes the behavior of firms. |
Barnard et al. (2017)Barnard, H., Cuervo-Cazurra, A., & Manning, S. (2017). Africa business research as a laboratory for theory-building: Extreme conditions, new phenomena, and alternative paradigms of social relationships. Management and Organization Review, 13(3), 467-495. https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2017.34 https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2017.34...
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Management and Organization Review |
Firms in Africa face challenges (i.e., extreme conditions) and opportunities (laboratory for modifying current theories). |
Boussebaa and Brown (2017)Boussebaa, M., & Brown, A. D. (2017). Englishization, identity regulation and imperialism. Organization Studies, 38(1), 7-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840616655494 https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840616655494...
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Organization Studies |
Englishization is a process of normalization, surveillance, and conformist identity work, serving as a tool to discipline local selves in line with the imperative of international competitiveness. |
Liou and Rao-Nicholson (2017)Liou, R-S., & Rao-Nicholson, R. (2017). Out of Africa: The role of institutional distance and host-home colonial tie in South African Firms’ post-acquisition performance in developed economies. International Business Review, 26, 1184-1195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2017.04.010 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2017.0...
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International Business Review |
Colonial ties have a negative impact on the long-term operating performance of South African acquirers. |
Meyer (2017)Meyer, K. E. (2017). International business in an era of anti-globalization. Multinational Business Review, 25(2), 78-90. https://doi.org/10.1108/MBR-03-2017-0017 https://doi.org/10.1108/MBR-03-2017-0017...
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Multinational Business Review |
Two sets of concerns of the anti-globalization movement: the unequal distribution of the benefits of globalization and emergent constraints on national sovereignty. |
Michailova et al. (2017)Michailova, S., Piekkari, R., Storgaard, M., & Tienari, J. (2017). Rethinking ethnocentrism in International Business research. Global Strategy Journal, 7, 335-353. https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1159 https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1159...
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Global Strategy Journal |
Ethnocentrism can exist in IB and is necessary to rethink ethnocentrism in IB and show implications for global strategy research. |
Mol et al. (2017)Mol, M. J., Stadler, C., & Ariño, A. (2017). Africa: The new frontier for global strategy scholars. Global Strategy Journal, 7(1), 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1146 https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1146...
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Global Strategy Journal |
Africa received limited attention in the past and now offers an opportunity to challenge existing theories. |
Stevens and Newenham-Kahindi (2017)Stevens, C., & Newenham-Kahindi, A. (2017). Legitimacy spillovers and political risk: The case of FDI in the African Community. Global Strategy Journal, 7, 10-35. https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1151 https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1151...
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Global Strategy Journal |
Home-country legitimacy with the host country is in affecting Chinese MNCs in East Africa in the face of the political risk. |
Abdelrehim et al. (2018)Abdelrehim, N., Ramnath, A., Smith, A., & Popp, A. (2018). Ambiguous decolonisation: A postcolonial reading of the IHRM strategy of the Burmah Oil company. Business History, 63(1), 98-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2018.1448384 https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2018.14...
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Business History |
There is a persistence of colonial modes of organization after decolonization in South Asia. |
Abugre (2018)Abugre, J. B. (2018). Cross-cultural communication imperatives: Critical lessons for Western expatriates in multinational companies (MNCs) in sub-Saharan Africa. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 14(2/3), 170-187. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-01-2017-0005 https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-01-2017-00...
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CPoIB |
Rent and resource-seeking used by MNCs are central to “manufactured” risks, and this negatively creates an impact on post-independent Africa. |
Adams et al. (2018) |
CPoIB |
Risks (i.e., language, culture from MNCs) arising from business practices that rent and resource-seeking strategies used by MNCs negatively impact post-independent Africa. |
Alcaraz and Salamanca (2018)Alcaraz, J., & Salamanca, E. (2018). Migration and outward FDI: A double direction approach. Review of International Business and Strategy, 28(2), 240-257. https://doi.org/10.1108/RIBS-12-2017-0114 https://doi.org/10.1108/RIBS-12-2017-011...
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Review of International Business and Strategy |
International migration that goes from the EU and North America to the Latin region is related to the firms’ internationalization and their location. |
Stringer and Michailova (2018)Stringer, C., & Michailova, S. (2018). Why modern slavery thrives in multinational corporations’ global value chains. Multinational Business Review, 26(3), 194-206. https://doi.org/10.1108/MBR-04-2018-0032 https://doi.org/10.1108/MBR-04-2018-0032...
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Multinational Business Review |
Modern slavery in GVCs is a complex challenge to MNCs’ governance, opening routes that enable modern slavery. |
Wanderley and Celano (2018)Wanderley, S., & Celano, A. (2018). Brazil-Bolivia and a horse trade: A postcolonial case within South America. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 14(4), 426-441. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-11-2016-0048 https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-11-2016-00...
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CPoIB |
There is a postcolonial relationship between Brazilian MNC as the holder of power of resources in Bolivia, even though Brazil never colonized Bolivia. |
Reyes et al. (2019)Reyes, A. B., Newburry, W., Carneiro, J., & Cordova, C. (2019). Using Latin America as a research laboratory: The moderating effect of trade openness on the relationship between inward and outward FDI. Multinational Business Review, 27(2), 122-140. https://doi.org/10.1108/MBR-03-2019-0022 https://doi.org/10.1108/MBR-03-2019-0022...
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Multinational Business Review |
While foreign firms are cautious of spillover to host country firms, the OFDI within Latin America shows a historical dependence on commodities and natural resources. |
Burmester et al. (2019)Burmester, B., Michailova, S., & Stringer, C. (2019). Modern slavery and international business scholarship: The governance nexus. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 15(2/3), 139-157. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-02-2019-0011 https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-02-2019-00...
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CpoIB |
Modern slavery is a multi-level governance challenge. Understanding the MNCs’ different roles in governance may contribute to reducing the incidence of modern slavery. |
Cairns (2019)Cairns, G. M. (2019). Critical engagement in international business: Creating meaning for a broad constituency. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 15(2/3), 262-272. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-01-2019-0004 https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-01-2019-00...
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CPoIB |
The author supports IB research and activity that is underpinned by thinking to inform action for the good of society at large. |
Dörrenbächer and Gammelgaard (2019)Dörrenbächer, C., & Gammelgaard, J. (2019). Critical and mainstream international business research: Making critical IB an integral part of a societally engaged international business discipline. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 15(2/3), 239-261. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-02-2019-0012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-02-2019-...
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CPoIB |
Critical IB research can be broken into five main topics: positioning critical IB research, postcolonial IB studies, effects of IB activities, financialization and the global financial crisis and “Black IB” and corporate social responsibility. |
Meouloud et al. (2019)Meouloud, T. A., Mudambi, R., & Hill, T. L. (2019). The Metropolitan effect: Colonial influence on the internationalization of Francophone African firms. Management and Organization Review, 15(1), 31-53. https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2019.3 https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2019.3...
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Management and Organization Review |
Francophone African firms’ internationalizing first to France, a lingering influence of colonial ties. |
Fatehi and Taasoobshirazi (2020)Fatehi, K., & Taasoobshirazi, G. (2020). Contemplating the future: Mutating capitalism. Thunderbird International Business Review, 62(2), 161-169. https://doi.org/10.1002/tie.22113 https://doi.org/10.1002/tie.22113...
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Thunderbird International Business Review |
Modern economic and financial problems of capitalism made it very clear that unbridled capitalism may not produce the proclaimed prosperity. |
Glaister et al. (2020)Glaister, K. W., Driffield, N., & Lin, Y. (2020). Foreign direct investment to Africa: Is there a colonial legacy? Management International Review, 60, 315-349. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-020-00415-w https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-020-00415...
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Management International Review |
Prior colonial ties are positively related to IFDI from colonizers to former colonies. |
Sayed and Agndal (2020)Sayed, Z., & Agndal, H. (2020). Neo-colonial dynamics in global professional service firms: A periphery perspective. Culture and Organization, 26(5/6), 425-443. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2019.1694928 https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2019.16...
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Culture and Organization |
Socio-ideological and technocratic mechanisms of control allow subsidiary workers to elevate status while still cementing their role as dominated in the global hierarchy, silencing any resistance. |
Storgaard et al. (2020)Storgaard, M., Tienari, J., Piekkari, R., & Michailova, S. (2020). Holding on while letting go: Neocolonialism as organizational identity work in a multinational corporation. Organization Studies, 41(11), 1469-1489. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840620902977 https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840620902977...
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Organization Studies |
Neocolonialism is a means through which identity is worked on at MNC headquarters. |
Osei et al. (2020)Osei, C., Omar, M., & Joosub, T. S. (2020). The effect of colonial legacies on Africa’s inward FDI: The case of UK FDI in Ghana. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 16(3), 259-277. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-05-2018-0041 https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-05-2018-00...
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CPoIB |
Colonial ties have limited influence on the flow of FDI to Ghana, despite the institutional legacies between colonizers and colonies. |
Yeganeh (2020)Yeganeh, H. (2020). A critical examination of the social impacts of large multinational corporations in the age of globalization. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 16(3), 193-208. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-01-2019-0001 https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-01-2019-00...
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CPoIB |
Large MNCs aggravate the rising economic inequality in different ways, contributing to social and financial instability. |
Boussebaa (2021)Boussebaa, M. (2021). From cultural differences to cultural globalization: Towards a new research agenda in cross-cultural management studies. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 17(3), 381-398. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-01-2020-0003 https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-01-2020-00...
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CPoIB |
Cross-cultural management and culture-sensitive studies of IB almost exclusively focused on cultural differences, whereas little attention has been devoted to the phenomenon of corporate-driven cultural globalization. |
Das (2021)Das, A. (2021). Predatory FDI during economic crises: Insights from outbound FDI from China and host country responses. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 17(2), 321-341. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-05-2020-0050 https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-05-2020-00...
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CPoIB |
Acquirers from China pursue strategic asset-seeking, creeping, and control-seeking acquisitions during the pandemic and pre-pandemic. |
Dörrenbächer et al. (2021)Dörrenbächer, C., Sinkovics, R. R., Becker-Ritterspach, F., Boussebaa, M., Curran, L., Jonge, A. de, & Khan, Z. (2021). The Covid-19 pandemic: Towards a societally engaged IB perspective. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 17(2), 149-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-02-2021-0021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-02-2021-...
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CPoIB |
Offers contributions of three clusters, “re-reading the crisis,” “crisis protectionism,” and “firm strategies during the pandemic”. |
Konara and Wei (2021)Konara, P., & Wei, Y. (2021). Does language matter to foreign subsidiary performance? International Marketing Review, 38(2), 276-299. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMR-05-2019-0129 https://doi.org/10.1108/IMR-05-2019-0129...
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International Marketing Review |
Language has a negative effect on subsidiary performance, while cultural distance on performance becomes stronger when the language difference is smaller (i.e., English). |
Iwashita (2022)Iwashita, H. (2022). Language and identity in the shadow: A multi-case study of a Japanese multinational Corporation. International Business Review, 31(2), 101913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2021.101913 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2021.1...
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International Business Review |
MNCs need to use the parent country's language not only because of ethnicity but also by their post-colonial views. |
Jacob et al. (2022)Jacob, D., Svystunova, L., & Rao-Nicholson, R. (2022). MNE post-entry institutional strategies in emerging markets: An organizational field position perspective. European Management Review, 19(1), 53-74. https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12472 https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12472...
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European Management Review |
MNCs from developed countries strategically manage their institutional context. |
Sayed and Agndal (2022)Sayed, Z., & Agndal, H. (2022). Offshore outsourcing of R&D to emerging markets: Information systems as tools of neo-colonial control. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 18(3), 281-302. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-07-2020-0089 https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-07-2020-00...
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CPoIB |
Provided three tools of neo-colonial control based on information systems adopted by offshore outsourcing of R&D work. |
Robb and Michailova (2023)Robb, B., & Michailova, S. (2023). Multinational enterprises’ narratives about and approaches to modern slavery: An exploratory study. Review of International Business and Strategy,33(2), 199-218. https://doi.org/10.1108/RIBS-10-2021-0128 https://doi.org/10.1108/RIBS-10-2021-012...
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Review of International Business and Strategy |
Identified four MNC narratives and three approaches to responding to modern slavery. |