Suchergebnisse

1. A research agenda for international business and management: The promises and prospects of thinking outside the box / Mike Geppert and Ödül Bozkurt -- Part I. Revisiting core IB/M theories -- 2. Do we need a theory of externalisation? / Roger Strange -- 3. Behavioural theory and MNE decision-making: Changing the narrative in international business management / Giulio Nardella, Rajneesh Narula and Irina Surdu -- 4. Outward investment from emerging markets: Time for a paradigm shift? / 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 / Florian Becker-Ritterspach and Khaled Fourati -- 6. The diplomatic imperative: MNEs as international actors / 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 / Leo McCann, Brian Wierman and Edward Granter -- 8. Emerging economy MNCs and their geopolitical embeddedness / 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 / 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 / Christoph Dörrenbächer and Lukas Ellermann -- 11. The future of international business research: Theorising on unfolding phenomena in a complex, dynamic world / Peter Zettinig and Niina Nummela -- Part V. Commentary -- 12. Commentary on fulfilling the future agenda in international business / Jonathan P. Doh -- Index.

This volume covers a range of on-going and newly emerging debates in the study of multinational companies (MNCs). A key aim is to consolidate and make available in one place new conceptual, methodological and critical MNC research.

The study of multinational companies (MNCs) has been split for many decades into two camps which hardly talked to each other: a) predominantly economic and functionalist oriented International Business Researchers, and b) largely social constructivist and critical management oriented Organization Theorists. This volume intends to build bridges by bringing together leading international scholars from both camps, who provide new insights in the study of MNCs. In addition to the bridge-building exercise, the book aims to develop a more comprehensive organizational theoretical understanding as well as methodological plurality in the study of how MNCs function in the post-millennium era, both internally and externally, and also how they control their international operations across economic, institutional, cultural, linguistic, political and social divides. Key topics addressed in our volume include: historical perspectives on the study of MNCs, the role of increased financialization and marketization on MNCs, the new role of the HQ within contemporary MNC, the role of language in MNCs, discursive studies of MNCs, labour representation in MNCs as well as social movements and corporate social responsibility and MNCs.

The bulk of contributions on digital business so far provide mainly descriptive analyses when it comes to the study of power-related phenomena within the gig economy. We particularly lack systematic, integrative studies which focus on interdependencies of power relations, labour conditions and business model efficiency, based on robust theoretical approaches which capture meso-level structures and micro-level dynamics of power simultaneously. Our conceptual paper addresses this gap by investigating power relations in platform arrangements, based on the framework of "circuits of power". We use the case of the ridesharing platform Uber, which has caused debates in and beyond academia to illustrate how this framework, combined with concepts from labour process theory, behavioural economics and micro-politics, can be applied for a systematic analysis of the diversified portfolio of power-related control and influence mechanisms that are embedded in platforms' software infrastructures. Departing from this, we examine how our approach can inform future research focused on assessing specific forms of management, organisation and work in the wider gig economy. Our discussion concentrates on a) the classification and comparison of heterogeneous forms of gig work; b) the assessment of labour-related problems; and c) power-related organisational dynamics or inertia in such settings. The latter point is related to the central question of why employee voice and resistance are rare in certain gig-work arrangements.