Critical Perspectives on International Business: Volume 20 Issue 4

The Olympus scandal – the dark side of social networks and corporate culture

Maria Ilieva

This study aims to build on the well-documented case of the Olympus scandal to dissect how social networks and corporate culture enabled corporate elites to commit fraud across…

Hegemon or South-South partner? The ambiguity of Chinese foreign direct investment in Peru

Francisca Da Gama, Kim Bui

The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for evaluating the relationship between China and Peru, drawing on dependency theory, against the backdrop of China’s explicit…

Not gone away: how domestic terrorism impacts multinationals in foreign markets

Martin David Owens, Elizabeth Johnson

The paper aims to understand how state and non-state domestic terrorism impacts MNEs in foreign markets. Despite the burgeoning literature on terrorism within international…

Critical perspectives on GVC theory: uncovering GVC resilience through non-lead power

Gabriele Suder, Bo Meng, Gao Yuning

In international business (IB), the discussion of COVID-19-related global value chain (GVC) models driving resilience has taken momentum since May 2020. The purpose of this study…

Emerging market multinationals’ embeddedness in Global South countries: an empirical study of Chinese MNEs in Peru

Dominique Mazé, Jorge Alcaraz, Ricardo E. Buitrago R.

This paper aims to investigate how emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) are integrating and expanding into other emerging market host countries, focusing on Chinese…

Deliberative ideals and hegemonic practices – political CSR in extractive industries

Sara Persson

Political Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), based on ideas about deliberative democracy, have been criticised for increasing corporate power and democratic deficits. Yet…