Dear friends and colleagues, 

 

We are delighted to announce the publication of the latest issue (volume 30, issue 5) of International Business Review. The issue contains a Special Section on Sustainable international business practices by MNEs in emerging markets”, guest edited by Geoffrey Wood, Adrian Wilkinson, Yama Temouri & Vijay Pereira. The section contains six insightful articles on this vital contemporary topic. In addition, the issue contains three papers on outward foreign direct investment from China, Latin America and OECD countries; two papers on business education in an international context; and one each on alliances; employees’ responses to change; performance appraisal in MNEs; and negotiation beliefs in China and the United States. We hope you find something to whet your intellectual appetite. 

 

Best wishes 

Roger Strange & Fang Lee Cooke (IBR Editors-in-Chief) 


International Business Review 

Volume 30, Issue 5, October 2021 

 

 

Special section on Sustainable International Business Practices by MNEs in Emerging Markets; Guest Edited by Geoffrey Wood, Adrian Wilkinson, Yama Temouri & Vijay Pereira 

 

Exploring and investigating sustainable international business practices by MNEs in emerging markets 

Geoffrey Wood, Vijay Pereira, Yama Temouri, Adrian Wilkinson 

Article 101899 

 

The hunt for international legitimacy: Examining the relationship between internationalization, state ownership, location and CSR reporting of Russian firms 

Yulia Aray, Desislava Dikova, Tatiana Garanina, Anna Veselova 

Article 101858 

 

Environmental sustainability practices and offshoring activities of multinational corporations across emerging and developed markets 

Theophilus A. Lartey, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Albert Danso, Samuel Adomako, ... Shlomo Y. Tarba 

Article 101789 

 

Investigating the causal configurations of cost-efficient firms at the bottom of the pyramid 

Shubhabrata Basu, Surender Munjal, Ashish Malik, Demetris Vrontis 

Article 101810 

 

Global value chains and the environmental sustainability of emerging market firms: A systematic review of literature and research agenda 

Ismail Golgeci, Dilshod Makhmadshoev, Mehmet Demirbag 

Article 101857 

 

Servant leadership, CSR perceptions, moral meaningfulness and organizational identification- evidence from the Middle East 

Sophie Lythreatis, Ahmed Mohammed Sayed Mostafa, Vijay Pereira, Xiaojun Wang, Manlio Del Giudice 

Article 101772 

 

 

Regular Articles 

 

Assessing the effects of policies on China’s outward foreign direct investment 

Tong Yin, Lisa De Propris, Liza Jabbour 

Article 101818 

 

Formal and informal influences of the state on OFDI of hybrid state-owned enterprises in China 

Tao Bai, Stephen Chen, Youzong Xu 

Article 101864 

 

Comprehending the outward FDI from Latin America and OCED: A comparative perspective 

Khelifa Mazouz, Geoffrey Wood, Shuxing Yin, Mao Zhang 

Article 101853 

 

International business education: What we know and what we have yet to develop 

Anton Klarin, Boris Inkizhinov, Dashi Nazarov, Elena Gorenskaia 

Article 101833 

 

Born to be similar? Global isomorphism and the emergence of latecomer business schools 

Hyungseok Yoon, Mustapha Belkhouja, Yingqi Wei, Sangho Lee 

Article 101863 

 

Up- and down- alliances: A systematic literature review 

Chiara Cannavale, Anna Esempio, Marco Ferretti 

Article 101813 

 

The influence of Islamic Work Ethic on employees’ responses to change in Kuwaiti Islamic banks 

Ahmed Al-Shamali, Zahir Irani, Mohamed Haffar, Sarah Al-Shamali, Fahad Al-Shamali 

Article 101817 

 

Performance appraisal and MNEs: The impact of different capitalist archetypes 

Elizabeth Houldsworth, Marianna Marra, Chris Brewster, Michael Brookes, Geoffrey Wood 

Article 101826 

 

Negotiation beliefs: Comparing Americans and the Chinese 

Zhi-Xue Zhang, Leigh Anne Liu, Li Ma 

Article 101849 

 



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Roger Strange

Professor of International Business

Editor-in-Chief, International Business Review

University of Sussex Business School, Room 107A, Jubilee Building

Brighton BN1 9SL, United Kingdom

Tel: (44) 1273-873531

Web profile: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/243640

Centre for International Business & Development:

https://www.sussex.ac.uk/business-school/strategy-marketing/research/international-business

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