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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

Vikrant Shirodkar, Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong, Tazeeb Rajwani & Thomas C. Lawton

Article 102251

Multinational enterprises’ nonmarket strategies: Insights from History

Marcelo Bucheli & Thomas DeBerge

Article 102198

The demands of populism on business and the creation of “corporate political obligations”

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

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

Louise Curran

Article 102200

Regular Articles

The knowledge-based view in international business: A systematic review of the literature and future research directions

Maria-Cristina Stoian, Janja Annabel Tardios & Marios Samdanis

Article 102239

Diverse human resource slack and firm innovation: Evidence from politically connected firms

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

Sean A. Way, Michael D. Ulrich & Patrick M. Wright

Article 102250

Cultural identity threats and identity work of skilled migrants in multinational corporations

Jinju Xie & Vesa Peltokorpi

Article 102246

The language barrier as a springboard towards (team) creativity: An exploratory study of foreign language use in teams

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

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

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

Mohammad Tarikul Islam & Doren Chadee

Article 102248

Assessing the effects of institutions on the ownership structure of MNCs investments in global cities

Fernando Moreira da Silva, Renato Pereira & Mario Henrique Ogasavara

Article 102232

Export marketing strategy and performance: A focus on SMEs promotion

Claude Obadia & Irena Vida

Article 102229