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Book SynopsisThis insightful Research Agenda provides reflections on the state of the international business and management discipline and also highlights important future topics for research, as well as sharing a range of thought-provoking ideas on key subjects from externalization theory to emerging market economies to societal crises and modern slavery.
Trade Review'Climate change, increasing inequality, pandemic, political turmoil... ''Thinking out of the box'' is exactly what we need to do. But how can we do that? This book will help us leave our comfort zone and encourage our renewed challenges to overcome the box.' -- Takahiro Endo, Hitotsubashi University Business School, Tokyo, Japan
'Ödül Bozkurt and Mike Geppert have brought together a selective and creative set of scholars to revisit how to conduct research in international business and management from a more relevant and critical perspective. Authors in this edited book identify chasms in mainstream ideas, illustrate how to think outside the box and practice cross-disciplinary fertilization. This leads to analysis of international dynamics emerging from the role of nation states, power relations, ideology and crises. It is a must read for scholars interested in tackling big questions in IB.' -- Ruth Aguilera, Northeastern University, US
'''Thinking out of the box'' is definitely needed in order to write this book A Research Agenda for International Business and Management (IB/M) and address the current and future grand challenges of society. This impressive edited book by Bozkurt and Geppert thoroughly analyzes a number of topical themes within IB/M emphasizing multinational enterprises and internationalization processes and operations on the one hand, and themes like behavioral aspects, social-political developments, power, humanitarian crises, and modern slavery on the other. As such, this book will set the scene for IB/M research in the years to come.' -- Jens Gammelgaard, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Table of ContentsContents: 1 A Research Agenda for International Business and Management: the promises and prospects of thinking outside the box 1 Mike Geppert and .dül Bozkurt PART I REVISITING CORE IB/M THEORIES 2 Do we need a theory of externalisation? 23 Roger Strange 3 Behavioural theory and MNE decision-making: changing the narrative in international business management 43 Giulio Nardella, Rajneesh Narula and Irina Surdu 4 Outward investment from emerging markets: time for a paradigm shift? 63 Suma Athreye PART II CHANGING ROLES OF NATION-STATES AND MNES 5 The role of the home country in international business and management research: state of the art and future research directions 87 Florian Becker-Ritterspach and Khaled Fourati 6 The diplomatic imperative: MNEs as international actors 109 Brent Burmester PART III INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT, POWER RELATIONS AND IDEOLOGY 7 Treating ideology seriously in international business and management research: a textual analysis of the global “self-management” fad 131 Leo McCann, Brian Wierman and Edward Granter 8 Emerging economy MNCs and their geopolitical embeddedness 153 Ursula Mense-Petermann PART IV THEORIZING AND STUDYING NEW PHENOMENA IN IB/M: CRISIS, SLAVERY AND METHODOLOGY 9 Managing the unavoidable: new avenues for research on MNEs and societal crises 175 Verena Girschik and Jasper Hotho 10 Developing parameters for the occurrence of modern slavery: towards an empirical validation of Crane’s (2013) theory of modern slavery 195 Christoph Dörrenbächer and Lukas Ellermann 11 The future of international business research: theorising on unfolding phenomena in a complex, dynamic world 221 Peter Zettinig and Niina Nummela PART V COMMENTARY 12 Commentary on fulfilling the future agenda in international business 245 Jonathan P. Doh Index 251
