Dear Colleagues,

Critical perspectives on international business publishes research that critically engages with the broad field of international business including issues of globalization, international business strategies, corporate social responsibility as well as power relations within and between multinational firms and civil society actors.  

 

We have compiled a virtual special issue (see below) to give you an insight into the thematic breath and disciplinary scope of the journal.

 

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Global value chains, rising power firms and economic and social upgrading

J Lee, G Gereffi

 

Localize or local lies? The power of language and translation in the multinational corporation

M Logemann, R Piekkari

 

Critical perspectives on strategic CSR: what is sustainable value co-creation orientation?

F Ahen, P Zettinig

 

Showing them the door (nicely): rejection discourses and practices of a global elite

F Goxe, N Belhoste

 

Coming of age, seeking legitimacy: The historical trajectory of African management research

J Amankwah-Amoah

 

How might we study international business to account for marginalized subjects? Turning to practice and situating knowledges

G Durepos, A Prasad, C E Villanueva

 

Flexible identities and cross-border knowledge networking

F Moore

 

Strategic management research on emerging economies: Cultural imperialism in universalizing research paradigms

RT Venkateswaran, AK Ojha

 

Where silence speaks-insights from Third World NGOs

K Chakraborty, B Saha, N Jammulamadaka

 

Global oligopolistic competition and foreign direct investment: Revisiting and extending the literature

MW Hansen, A Hoenen

 

Best wishes

Christoph Dörrenbächer

Co Editor-in-chief cpoib

 

 

 

critical perspectives on International Business (cpoib), Volume 14 (2018), Issue 2+3

Special Issue: Critical perspectives on International Business in Africa

Guest editors: Richard Nyuur, Roseline Wanjiru, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah and Simeon Ifere

 

Table of contents

 

Guest editorial (free download)

Richard Nyuur, Roseline Wanjiru, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Simeon Ifere (pp. 102 - 110)

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/cpoib-05-2018-073

 

Disruptive innovation at the base-of-the-pyramid: Opportunities, and challenges for multinationals in African emerging markets

Abiodun Adegbile , David Sarpong (pp. 111 - 138)

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/cpoib-11-2016-0053

 

Attracting Chinese FDI in Africa: The role of natural resources, market size and institutional quality

Shan Shan, Zhibin Lin, Yulei Li, Yan Zeng (pp. 139 - 153)

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/cpoib-11-2016-0055

 

Newly independent nations and large engineering projects: the case of the Volta River Project

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Ellis L.C. Osabutey (pp. 154 - 169)

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/cpoib-12-2016-0071

 

Cross-cultural communication imperatives: Critical lessons for Western expatriates in multinational companies (MNCs) in sub-Saharan Africa

James Baba Abugre (pp. 170 - 187)

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/cpoib-01-2017-0005

 

International business research challenges in Africa: Knowledge creation and institutional perspectives

Abdoulkadre Ado , Roseline Wanjiru (pp. 188 - 209)

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/cpoib-12-2016-0067

 

Critical perspectives on “manufactured” risks arising from Eurocentric business practices in Africa

Kweku Adams , Bhabani Shankar Nayak , Serge Koukpaki (pp. 210 - 229)

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/cpoib-11-2016-0058

 

Competitive or cooperative relationships in clusters: A comparative study of two internationalising agro-processing clusters in Ghana

Anthony Ayakwah , Leandro Sepulveda , Fergus Lyon (pp. 230 - 251)

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/cpoib-12-2016-0063

 

Integration of African firms into global value chains: A comparison of Finnish and Chinese firms’ sourcing from Africa

Weimu You , Asta Salmi , Katri Kauppi (pp. 252 - 281)

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/cpoib-11-2016-0056

 

Investigating the moderating role of Export Promotion Programmes using evidence from North-Africa

Mohamed Yacine Haddoud, Adah-Kole Onjewu, Paul Jones, Robert Newbery (pp. 282 - 308)

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/cpoib-11-2016-0059

 

A critical incident analysis of the export behaviour of SMEs: evidence from an emerging market

Obi Berko Obeng Damoah (pp. 309 - 334)

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/cpoib-11-2016-0061

 

 

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