Purpose: This paper addresses the so far hardly understood contemporary restructuring trends in European Multinational corporations (MNCs), their rationales and their labour-related implications. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on a systematic evaluation of academic and...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to advance micro-level theorising of sociocultural post-merger integration (PMI) by merging insights from international business and management research on the cognitive and affective dimensions of PMI. Design/methodology/approach: The paper follows a...

Purpose This paper has been written in the style of a provocative essay. This paper aims to show how neo-liberalism has become the leading “policy doctrine” in higher education (HE) systems across the globe. This has put increasing systemic political and economic pressure on many...

Purpose: This paper aims to address the relationship between critical and mainstream international business (IB) research and discuss the ways forward for the former. Design/methodology/approach: The paper empirically maps critical IB scholarship by analysing more than 250 academic articles...

Purpose: This viewpoint takes up the Covid-19 pandemic as a trigger for a research agenda around societally engaged international business (IB) research. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is organized as a viewpoint. First, it provides an overview of Covid-19 research in business and...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop an analytical framework to categorize the quality of industrial relations in foreign affiliates. Using the case of foreign affiliates in Germany, this paper further explores what factors shape the quality of industrial relations in foreign...

Purpose – This article reflects on the development and impact of critical perspectives on international business ( CPoIB ) during its first decade of existence. The influence that the journal has had through its efforts to challenge orthodox understandings of international business (IB) is...

Purpose – This paper aims to reflect on the future of critical perspectives on international business ( cpoib ) by considering some key developments in the international business (IB) context since the Journal’s launch in 2005. The Journal’s mission and scope is refreshed in light of these...