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Dear friends and colleagues, Are you stuck for something to give your partner for Valentine’s Day? Perhaps you could treat her/him to the latest issue of International Business Review! The issue starts with a Special Section on “MNE non-market strategy: complexities and varieties”, guest edited by Taz Rajwani, Tahiru Liedong, Tom Lawton & Vikrant Shirodkar. The editors provide persuasive arguments that MNEs should adopt more authentic and culturally-embedded values-based non-market strategies. Meanwhile, the other four articles provide important insights into MNEs’ non-market strategies in history; populism and the creation of corporate political obligations; non-market strategies in weak institutional environments; and how MNE challenges through the investor state dispute settlement (ISDS) process impacts their social license to operate. The ten regular articles include a review of the knowledge-based view in international business; four papers on HR-related issues (i.e. human resource slack and firm innovation; cross-cultural effects of employee commitment on firm performance; cultural identity threats for skilled migrants in MNEs; and the positive and negative impacts of foreign language use on team creativity); and two on cross-border investments (location advantages for digital M&As; and the impact of experience on agglomeration). The three remaining articles focus on adaptive governance and GVC resilience; the effects of institutions on the ownership structure of MNE investments; and SME export marketing strategy and performance. Planty there for your partner to enjoy! S/he will be grateful forever. Best wishes Roger Strange & Fang Lee Cooke (IBR Editors-in-Chief) International Business Review Volume 33, Issue 2, April 2024 Special Section on “MNE non-market strategy: complexities and varieties.” Guest edited by: Tazeeb S. Rajwani, Tahiru A. Liedong, Thomas C. Lawton & Vikrant Shirodkar MNE nonmarket strategy in a changing world: Complexities, varieties, and a values-based approach<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123001518> Vikrant Shirodkar, Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong, Tazeeb Rajwani & Thomas C. Lawton Article 102251 Multinational enterprises’ nonmarket strategies: Insights from History<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123000987> Marcelo Bucheli & Thomas DeBerge Article 102198 The demands of populism on business and the creation of “corporate political obligations”<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593122001032> Christopher A. Hartwell & Timothy M. Devinney Article 102075 Nonmarket strategy and legitimacy in institutionally voided environments: The case of Jumia, an African e-commerce giant<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123000690> Augustine Awuah Peprah, Bede Akorige Atarah & Makafui Kwame Kumodzie-Dussey Article 102169 Investor state dispute settlement (ISDS) and the social licence to operate of international business: An analysis of controversial cases<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123001002> Louise Curran Article 102200 Regular Articles The knowledge-based view in international business: A systematic review of the literature and future research directions<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123001397> Maria-Cristina Stoian, Janja Annabel Tardios & Marios Samdanis Article 102239 Diverse human resource slack and firm innovation: Evidence from politically connected firms<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123001440> Tao Chen, Hyeyoun Park & Tazeeb Rajwani Article 102244 When commitment isn’t enough: The cross-cultural interactive effects of commitment-inducement and compliance-enforcement on performance<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123001506> Sean A. Way, Michael D. Ulrich & Patrick M. Wright Article 102250 Cultural identity threats and identity work of skilled migrants in multinational corporations<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123001464> Jinju Xie & Vesa Peltokorpi Article 102246 The language barrier as a springboard towards (team) creativity: An exploratory study of foreign language use in teams<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123001476> Anja Loderer, Katrin Muehlfeld, Robert Wilken, Alexandra Moritz & Véronique Slomski Article 102247 Seeking new location advantages: Analysis of emerging digital cross-border M&As—Based on TIMG index<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123001439> Zhe Wang, Dianchun Jiang & Ming Zhang Article 102243 The impact of experience on the agglomeration of cross-border investments within a region: The case of private equity in emerging markets<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123001312> Santiago Mingo, Luciano Ciravegna & Francisco Morales Article 102231 Adaptive governance and resilience of global value chains: A framework for sustaining the performance of developing-country suppliers during exogenous shocks<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123001488> Mohammad Tarikul Islam & Doren Chadee Article 102248 Assessing the effects of institutions on the ownership structure of MNCs investments in global cities<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123001324> Fernando Moreira da Silva, Renato Pereira & Mario Henrique Ogasavara Article 102232 Export marketing strategy and performance: A focus on SMEs promotion<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123001294> Claude Obadia & Irena Vida Article 102229 ------------------------------------------------------ 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 Follow the International Business Review on LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/international-business-review-journal/> to stay connected and up to date with the latest news, initiatives, and publications! 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