Purpose – This introductory paper aims to outline the reasons for optimism as well as for skepticism in regard to Russia's position in the group of BRIC nations and in the global economy. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a brief overview of developments in Russia. This...

Purpose – This paper aims to outline different views on international business (IB) as an academic discipline and looks into how IB scholars can cope with challenges to their disciplinary identity when stand-alone IB departments are merged with other departments such as management, marketing...

Purpose This paper aims to provide a critical perspective of how the theme of women, and more broadly gender, have been treated in extant international business (IB) literature. It also suggests meaningful and promising avenues in this research space. Design/methodology/approach This paper is...

Research on multinational corporation (MNC) knowledge transfer has argued continuously for the behavior of knowledge senders to be a determinant of knowledge transfer. Although the importance of disseminative capacity regarding knowledge transfer has been illustrated in numerous conceptual...

This ebook's goals are to a) take stock of the changed economic, political and social landscape in Russia and examine issues that address the changed realities at the current stage of the post-communist transition; b) address issues that are new and hence under-researched; and c) examine issues,...

section 1. Review, survey and critique / editor, Sonja Sackmann -- section 2. Language and languages : moving from the periphery to the core / editor, Terry Mughan -- section 3. Cross-cultural management research and education / editor, Gavin Jack -- section 4. The new international business...