This paper looks at a particular feature of international business (IB) research on culture that seems to be, on reflection, a curious omission from existing reviews and analyses – its potential for interestingness. To tackle this issue, we ponder two interconnected issues that sociologists...

Purpose – Inter-firm collaborative innovation typically requires knowledge sharing among individuals employed by collaborating firms. However, it is also associated with considerable risks, especially if the knowledge sharing process is not handled using proper judgment. Such risks have been...

PurposeThis paper aims to review the talent management literature to identify ways in which organizations can practically and effectively improve talent retention.Design/methodology/approachThis paper defines talent and talent retention and explains why retaining talent is so important and why...

This article reveals what goes on inside host organizations prior to and during expatriate assignments. On the basis of analyzing organizational documents and conducting 43 interviews with host country nationals (HCNs) and expatriates in 30 Vietnamese organizations that host external foreign...

In 2020 critical perspectives on international business (cpoib) will be marking its 15th birthday. The journal was launched in 2005 and joined the group of international business (IB) journals, many of which have a far longer history – Thunderbird International Business Review (launched in...

Our call was motivated by the fact that over the last two decades both the academic literature and the popular press have been overly populated with studies on emerging markets in general and emerging markets multinational enterprises (MNEs) in particular. While the latter began their...

This paper presents a critique of self-labeled ‘critical’ literature reviews (CLR) in organization and management studies. We have unearthed 243 articles that claim to present their readers with a ‘critical’ review of a body of literature. Unfortunately, the vast majority of these fail...

Purpose – This paper examines Western multinational enterprises’ (MNEs) application of ethnocentrism in human resource management (HRM) practices utilised in their subsidiaries in Ghana. The practices examined include recruitment and selection, training and development, performance...

Research methods in innovation management (IM) is not a topic that has attracted much scholarly attention – at least not in published articles in top-ranked innovation and technology management journals. Indeed, very few articles to date have addressed methods-related issues in IM, either to...

Researchers have been studying the effectiveness of people working across borders for decades, through many different disciplinary lenses. In management research, knowledge about Intercultural Competence (ICC) has developed mainly by theorizing about and studying a narrow set of cross-boundary...