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"Do consumers really care where products come from and how they are made? Is there such a thing as an 'ethical consumer'? Corporations and policy makers are bombarded with international surveys purporting to show that most consumers want ethical products. Yet when companies offer such products they are often met with indifference and limited uptake. It seems that survey radicals turn into economic conservatives at the checkout. This book reveals not only why the search for the 'ethical consumer' is futile but also why the social aspects of consumption cannot be ignored. Consumers are revealed to be much more deliberative and sophisticated in how they do or do not incorporate social factors into their decision making. Using first-hand findings and extensive research, The Myth of the Ethical Consumer provides academics, students and leaders in corporations and NGOs with an enlightening picture of the interface between social causes and consumption"--

This volume concentrates on the substantive gaps in the IB/IM field and addresses whether these gaps are resolvable with our current theoretical and methodological toolkit. The volume focuses on seven themes: (1) Emerging Markets, (2) People, Systems and Organizations, (3) Culture, (5) Foreignness/Distance, (5) Civil Society, (6) Knowledge/Innovation and (7) Internationalization

This volume concentrates on the substantive gaps in the IB/IM field and addresses whether these gaps are resolvable with our current theoretical and methodological toolkit. This entails three specific queries about the past and present: Have our theories advanced some combination of explanation and prediction? Have our methods proven to be effective in providing rigorous, robust and consistent evidence with respect to the explanatory and predictive validity of our theories? Have we studied the right phenomena in the right way?

Multinational Corporations are meeting new challenges by focusing on core activities, value chain disaggregation, relocation of activities to emerging markets, industry consolidation, technological change, and market volatility. In this volume we scrutinize different models to examine how MNCs can cope and orchestrate a global network organization

PWC strategy & eminent scholar in international management 2015 -- Leveraging organizational learning and alliances in complex and changing business environments -- Organizational learning and international management: the contributions of Marjorie A. Lyles -- Learning, collaboration, context, and place: Marjorie A. Lyles' contributions to international management -- Global entrepreneruship: assessment and challenges -- The consequences of de-internationalization: empirical evidence from Belgium -- Foreign IPO survival: an examination of institutional and governance factors -- Global entrepreneurship through brokerage: connecting socially conscious North American investors to South African housing developers -- Who is the entrepreneur? Prototypical views of the entrepreneurial role across three cultures --Born-global start-ups in emerging economies -- Enterprise peroformance and the value of entrepreneurs' acquired capitals -- A start-up ecosystem as a structure and context for high growth -- International opportunity development of internationalizing SMES from emerging economies -- Examining the impact of government investment in venture capital on entrepreneurship financing: does it make a difference? -- Clean energy entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Total resources and speeds of internationalization

Volume 28 of the Advances in international management focuses on the opportunities and challenges for multinational enterprises that consider emerging economies as their destinations or their homes. Chapters in this volume examine the rise of home-grown multinational enterprises in emerging economies and the challenges they face when they enter developed markets. They also analyze the co-evolution of and the dynamic interaction between market institutions and business organizations in emerging economies. The volume provides a forum for thought-provoking ideas, empirical research, and discussions, and is ideal for researchers and doctoral students whose work touches emerging markets.