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Partnering for impact: unveiling the dynamics of collaboration between social enterprises and impact investors in emerging economies 影响力伙伴关系:揭示新兴经济体社会企业与影响力投资者之间的合作动态
Critical Perspectives on International Business Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-04-2023-0025
Jeremiah Arigu Emmanuel, Chanaka Wijewardena, Hussain Gulzar Rammal, Priyan Pravin Khakhar
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Taming wicked problems through international business policy: recommendations for addressing modern slavery 通过国际商业政策解决邪恶问题:解决现代奴隶制的建议
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Critical Perspectives on International Business Pub Date : 2023-08-25 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-09-2021-0081
M. Raskovic
{"title":"Taming wicked problems through international business policy: recommendations for addressing modern slavery","authors":"M. Raskovic","doi":"10.1108/cpoib-09-2021-0081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-09-2021-0081","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The paper frames modern slavery as a global wicked problem and aims to provide a set of international business (IB) policy recommendations for taming it. The outlined approach can also guide IB policymaking to address other kinds of wicked problems.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This is a conceptual paper that reviews existing literature on wicked problems and integrates it with an IB policy double helix framework. The paper focuseses on the role multinational enterprises (MNEs) play in moderl slavery globally, either through global value chains or within global factory modes of operation.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000As a global wicked problem, modern slavery will never be solved, but it can be re-solved time and time over. Understanding the social reproduction of modern slavery can help shift the focus from labor governance and a narrow supply chain focus toward the role of transnational governance and the need to address institutional, market and organizational failures.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The paper contributes to the gap in an overarching theory of modern slavery and systematically applies the concept of wicked problems and wickedness theory to modern slavery. Drawing on an IB policy double helix framework, the paper addresses the governance nexus between modern slavery, IB and policymaking which can in turn advance IB policy research and theory.\u0000","PeriodicalId":46124,"journal":{"name":"Critical Perspectives on International Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46417053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Comparative capitalism and the empirical taxonomy of context: enhancing the institutionalist blueprint 比较资本主义与语境的经验分类学:强化制度主义蓝图
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Critical Perspectives on International Business Pub Date : 2023-08-11 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-10-2022-0114
D. Woodhouse, Andrew Johnston
{"title":"Comparative capitalism and the empirical taxonomy of context: enhancing the institutionalist blueprint","authors":"D. Woodhouse, Andrew Johnston","doi":"10.1108/cpoib-10-2022-0114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-10-2022-0114","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000Critiques of international business (IB) have long pointed to the weaknesses in the understanding of context. This has ignited debate on the understanding of institutions and how they “matter” for IB. Yet how institutions matter ultimately depends on how IB applies institutional theory. It is argued that institutional-based research is dominated by a narrow set of approaches, largely overlooking institutional perspectives that account for institutional diversity. This paper aims to forward the argument that IB research should lend greater attention to comparing the topography of institutional configurations by bringing political economy “back in” to the IB domain.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000Using principal components analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis, the authors provide IB with a taxonomy of capitalist institutional diversity which defines the landscape of political economies.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The authors show institutional diversity is characterised by a range of capitalist clusters and configuration arrangements, identifying four clusters with distinct modes of capitalism as well as specifying intra-cluster differences to propose nine varieties of capitalism. This paper allows IB scholars to lend closer attention to the institutional context within which firms operate. If the configurations of institutions “matter” for IB scholarship, then clearly, a quantitative blueprint to assess institutional diversity remains central to the momentum of such “institutional turn.”\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This paper provides a comprehensive survey of institutional theory, serving as a valuable resource for the application of context within international business. Further, our taxonomy allows international business scholars to utilise a robust framework to examine the diverse institutional context within which firms operate, whilst extending to support the analysis of broader socioeconomic outcomes. This taxonomy therefore allows international business scholars to utilise a robust framework to examine the institutional context within which firms operate.\u0000","PeriodicalId":46124,"journal":{"name":"Critical Perspectives on International Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43566910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Decolonizing international business 国际商业非殖民化
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Critical Perspectives on International Business Pub Date : 2023-06-12 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-12-2022-0121
Mehdi Boussebaa
{"title":"Decolonizing international business","authors":"Mehdi Boussebaa","doi":"10.1108/cpoib-12-2022-0121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-12-2022-0121","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The purpose of this paper is to encourage scholars of international business (IB) to engage with the “decolonizing the university” project and reflect on what decolonizing might mean for IB research and education. The paper also argues that it is particularly important for IB scholars to join the decolonizing project given that the field’s main object of study – the multinational enterprise – has been central to colonialism.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000An essay style is adopted to introduce the decolonizing project to IB and to explain why and how this scholarly field might benefit from engaging with it. As part of that, the paper calls upon IB scholars to work on decolonizing the field and to do so by not only interrogating its knowledge claims but also broadening the scope of its research so it can address the theme of neo-colonialism.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The paper reveals the conspicuous absence of IB scholars from the decolonizing project and situates such absence within a long-standing indifference within IB to the issue of colonialism.\u0000\u0000\u0000Social implications\u0000In learning about and engaging with the decolonizing project, IB scholars will be able to not only enrich IB theory and education but also help to tackle one of the grand challenges facing the modern world society, namely, social inequality and injustice rooted in colonialism.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000It is hoped that this paper will stimulate reflection on IB’s absence from the decolonizing project and assist scholars in developing an understanding of the project’s rationale and underlying literature. It is also hoped that the paper will open dialogue within IB about how this field might be decolonized and help scholars engage meaningfully with other disciplines as they do so.\u0000","PeriodicalId":46124,"journal":{"name":"Critical Perspectives on International Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45491452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Moral laxity – the cognitive gap between true and pseudo corporate social responsibility 道德松懈——真实和伪企业社会责任之间的认知差距
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Critical Perspectives on International Business Pub Date : 2023-06-06 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-03-2021-0029
Akram Hatami, Jan Hermes, Naser Firoozi
{"title":"Moral laxity – the cognitive gap between true and pseudo corporate social responsibility","authors":"Akram Hatami, Jan Hermes, Naser Firoozi","doi":"10.1108/cpoib-03-2021-0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-03-2021-0029","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000To succeed in today’s dynamic and unpredictable business world, businesses are increasingly required to gain the trust of and inform the society in which they operate about the social and environmental consequences of their actions. Corporations’ claims regarding the responsibility and ethicality of their actions, however, have been shown to be contradictory to some degree. We define corporations’ deceitful implementation of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies as pseudo-CSR. We argue that it is the moral characteristics of individuals, i.e. employees, managers and other decision-makers who ignore the CSR policies, which produce pseudo-CSR.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This is a conceptual paper.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The authors conceptualize the gap between true CSR and pseudo-CSR on a cognitive individual level as “moral laxity,” resulting from organization-induced lack of effort concerning individual moral development through ethical discourse, ethical sensemaking and subjectification processes. The absence of these processes prohibits individuals in organizations from constructing ethical identities to inhibit pseudo-CSR activities.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This paper contributes to the literature on CSR by augmenting corporate-level responsibility with the hitherto mostly neglected, yet significant, role of the individual in bridging this gap.\u0000","PeriodicalId":46124,"journal":{"name":"Critical Perspectives on International Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46461874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The source of MNE superiority from within or from outside? – A response to “the importance of being transnational” 跨国公司的优势来自内部还是外部?-回应“跨国的重要性”
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Critical Perspectives on International Business Pub Date : 2023-05-30 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-03-2023-0019
M. Forsgren, M. Yamin
{"title":"The source of MNE superiority from within or from outside? – A response to “the importance of being transnational”","authors":"M. Forsgren, M. Yamin","doi":"10.1108/cpoib-03-2023-0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-03-2023-0019","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The purpose of this paper is to respond to the comments by professor Ietto-Gillies on the paper on “The MNE as the Crown of Creation?”\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The authors argue that the key points made in the commentary are broadly complementary to the arguments set out in the “Crown of Creation?”\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The authors agree with the commentary that sources of advantages of multinationality lie “outside the MNE” – through its interactions with national governments and organised labour. However, the authors would caution that the achievement of such advantages may encounter constraints.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000The original paper (“The MNE as the Crown of Creation?”) was a critique of mainstream theories of the MNE regarding the assumed superiority of the MNE. The response to the paper makes the argument that any superiority associated with MNE must be sought in its interactions with other actors.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000The argument suggests that MNE managers seeking to exploit the advantage of multinationality through production shifting must be aware of the system-wide consequences of such actions.\u0000\u0000\u0000Social implications\u0000Given the conceptual nature of the argument and the level of abstraction, solid social implications can only be drawn tentatively.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The key novelty in the response paper is the possible negative effect – for MNEs – of unconstrained exercise of production shifting.\u0000","PeriodicalId":46124,"journal":{"name":"Critical Perspectives on International Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43156705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The importance of being … transnational 跨国的重要性
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Critical Perspectives on International Business Pub Date : 2023-05-18 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-02-2023-0013
G. Ietto-Gillies
{"title":"The importance of being … transnational","authors":"G. Ietto-Gillies","doi":"10.1108/cpoib-02-2023-0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-02-2023-0013","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The paper takes the lead from Forsgren and Yamin (2022), “The MNE as the ‘crown of creation’?: A commentary on mainstream theories of multi-national enterprises”, and accepts that the MNE can, indeed, be seen as the “crown of creation” in the world of business. The purpose of the paper is to show that this is due to advantages of multi/transnationality that must be sought outside rather than within the firm itself.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The paper argues that the advantages of multi-nationality derive from the differences in regulatory regimes between nation-states and, specifically, from laws and regulations regarding the following: labour and social security, industrial policy, taxation and environmental regulations. Some examples are given.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000It is claimed that the transnational company (TNC) has the ability to operate as a unified centre of strategic decision-making, and this gives it an advantage compared to operators it bargains with who do not possess such ability. Three such operators are discussed: labour, governments of nation-states and suppliers. In TNCs’ operations with foreign countries, a distinction is made between the spatial dimension and the regulatory regimes dimension. The interaction between these two dimensions leads to discussions on: regions within nation-states and their regulatory regimes, global value chains (GVCs) and free/investment zones (F/IZs). The conclusions draw policy implications and research agenda implications touching also on issues of TNCs as creator/destructors of social values.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000The paper refers to other published work by the author – solo or as co-author – where the arguments are further developed, including the finding of a detailed case study. There are policy implications regarding labour and its trade unions (TUs) as well governments and their taxation and industrial policies. Details of such policies need further development.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000There are implications for theory development, policies and for research agendas.\u0000\u0000\u0000Social implications\u0000Governments of nation-states and institutions within them – such as TUs – should try to co-ordinate rather than compete with each other in their bargaining with transnational companies. The breakaway of regions within nation-states further increases the power of TNCs.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000In the development of theories of the TNC, this work shifts the focus from internal characteristics within the firm and its markets to external ones: to the nation-states as jurisdictional loci. The distinction between spatial and regulatory regimes dimensions in dealing with transnational activities allows a novel viewpoint on: regions, GVCs and IZs. A novel viewpoint is also given in relation to the role of TNCs in social value.\u0000","PeriodicalId":46124,"journal":{"name":"Critical Perspectives on International Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46812712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Framing biases and language choices: how the Japanese media broadcast foreign aid policy for Africa 框架偏见和语言选择:日本媒体如何传播对非洲的对外援助政策
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Critical Perspectives on International Business Pub Date : 2023-04-10 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-04-2022-0023
{"title":"Framing biases and language choices: how the Japanese media broadcast foreign aid policy for Africa","authors":"","doi":"10.1108/cpoib-04-2022-0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-04-2022-0023","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This paper aims to investigate how the Japanese media conveyed the country’s foreign aid policy and analyse how framing biases in the news differ depending on which language (either Japanese or English) was used in the broadcasts.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This study uses a qualitative single case-study design and conducts a content analysis. The study uses news videos about the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development aired on YouTube by the Japanese media using Japanese and English.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The findings reveal subtle but notable differences in the patterns of the framing biases in the Japanese media’s news aired in Japanese intended for the domestic audience, and in the news on the same topic broadcast in English to the international audience.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000The limitation of the study is the rather small data set used for the single case study of one event.\u0000\u0000\u0000Social implications\u0000Framing biases could lead the general public in a monolingual society to a more skewed view of their government’s policy and its activities abroad. This could be an obstacle to developing a common ground for global issues and cross-border policy agendas.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The study explores an under-researched function of language in international affairs. It highlights how the mass media in a non-English-speaking country uses a dual approach to framing news while addressing different audiences. To the best of the author’s knowledge, the context that this paper deals with is novel because there are limited studies on the nexus between the influence of language choices and media logic in the field of international business.\u0000","PeriodicalId":46124,"journal":{"name":"Critical Perspectives on International Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43478169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Moving up the value chain with South-South cooperation for trade and technology? An analysis of India’s trade with East Africa 通过南南贸易和技术合作提升价值链?印度对东非贸易分析
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Critical Perspectives on International Business Pub Date : 2023-03-16 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-01-2021-0001
Amrita Saha, Filippo Bontadini, Alistair Cowan
{"title":"Moving up the value chain with South-South cooperation for trade and technology? An analysis of India’s trade with East Africa","authors":"Amrita Saha, Filippo Bontadini, Alistair Cowan","doi":"10.1108/cpoib-01-2021-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-01-2021-0001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The purpose of this paper is to provide an early assessment of India’s South-South cooperation for trade and technology (SSTT) with East Africa, focusing on Ethiopia, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. It aims to analyse the role of SSTT in providing support to targeted sectors.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The paper examines SSTT, focusing on India and East Africa over a specific period (2000–2016) of its emergence, and extends the public sponsorship literature in international business (IB) to better understand the relationship between SSTT and value addition – applying to a particular case study of SSTT interventions in spices.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The paper highlights SSTT as a pathway to support value addition in global value chains (GVCs). Trade between India and East African countries has grown, with three developments over the period of analysis in particular: shifting trade patterns, growing share of intermediate goods trade and differences in GVC insertion. However, East African exports are largely of lower value. Capacity building to support processing capability and thriving markets can encourage greater value addition. Preliminary findings suggest early gains at the margins, as SSTT interventions have been focusing on capacity boosting with buffering and bridging mechanisms for increased volume of trade. Moving up the value chain however requires that specific value-enhancing activities continue to be targeted, building on regional capacities. Our high-level case study for spices suggests that activities are starting to have a positive effect; however, more focus is needed to specifically target value creation before export and in particular higher levels of processing.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000While findings are preliminary, policy implications emerge to guide SSTT interventions. There is capacity for building higher value-added supply chains as is evident among East African countries that trade with each other – future SSTT programmes could tap into this and help build capacity in these higher-value value chains. Future SSTT programmes can take a comprehensive approach by aiming at interventions at key points of the value chain, and especially at points that facilitate higher value addition than initial processing. An example is that Ethiopia and Rwanda are likely to benefit from an expanded spice industry, but the next phase should be towards building processing for value-addition components of the value chain, such as through trade policies, incentivising exporters to add value to items before export. From a development perspective, more analysis needs to be done on the value chain itself – for instance, trade facilitation measures to help processers engage in value chains and to access investments for increasing value add activities. (iv), Future research should examine more closely the development impacts of SSTT, namely, the connection between increased trade, local job creation and sustained innovation, as it is these tangib","PeriodicalId":46124,"journal":{"name":"Critical Perspectives on International Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45216181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Compassion in the international business studies – prospects for future research 国际商业研究中的同情心——对未来研究的展望
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Critical Perspectives on International Business Pub Date : 2023-01-11 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-01-2021-0012
Michael Jakobsen, Verner Worm, S. Horak
{"title":"Compassion in the international business studies – prospects for future research","authors":"Michael Jakobsen, Verner Worm, S. Horak","doi":"10.1108/cpoib-01-2021-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-01-2021-0012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This paper aims to introduce the concept of compassion to the field of international business studies. As international business activities continuously intensify and hence generate a work environment characterized by cultural heterogeneity and pluralism, the notion of compassion in a cross-cultural context can be regarded a key skill for employees in internationally operating firms to enable coping with potential cross-cultural conflicts.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000In this narrative-oriented type of review, the authors discuss compassion in a cross-cultural context by drawing on the literature in the management and international business studies. By connecting prior research on compassion with the typical research interests in the IB domain, the authors identify and define potential future research foci for a research agenda centering on the role that cross-cultural compassion plays.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The authors argue that the conventional approach to learning about other national cultures, their value and norm systems, needs to be complemented by the acquisition of compassion skills. In todays culturally diverse business environment where employees increasingly work in virtual teams, cultural complexity is hardly manageable alone by developing expert knowledge about respective cultural contexts to prevent cross-cultural conflicts.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000By drawing on extant research on compassion conducted in neighboring disciplines of the social sciences, the authors conceptualize compassion in the context of international business research. Because compassion in a cross-cultural context is new to international business research, this study suggests directions for future research consisting of four research streams to guide future research on compassion in a cross-cultural context in international business studies.\u0000","PeriodicalId":46124,"journal":{"name":"Critical Perspectives on International Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49375319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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