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International marketing agility and cost leadership strategies of frontier emerging market exporters in advanced economy markets

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International Business Review Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102422

Huda Khan , Zaheer Khan , Gary Knight

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A self-anchoring view of forced migrants’ business performance in host countries

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International Business Review Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102419

Eren Akkan , Burcin Hatipoglu , Kerem Gurses

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Triple-loop springboarding and simulacrum enterprises: Financialization and new forms of emerging economy educational international businesses

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International Business Review Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102420

Helen Haixia Hu , John Bryson , Jonathan V. Beaverstock

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Transnational gender equality: A framework for analysis and three prospective agendas for future IB research

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International Business Review Pub Date : 2025-02-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102417

Rory Donnelly , Gail Hebson , Sara Chaudry

{"title":"Transnational gender equality: A framework for analysis and three prospective agendas for future IB research","authors":"Rory Donnelly , Gail Hebson , Sara Chaudry","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102417","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102417","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Gender equality is a global grand challenge and U.N. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG5) requiring the impetus of the IB community. As members of this community, Professional Services Firms (PSFs) providing HR-related consultancy services play an influential role in promoting the business case for gender equality to client businesses pursuing greater workforce diversity and inclusion. However, PSFs struggle to accomplish gender equality themselves. In this article, we examine the gendering of transnational PSFs through an integrative literature review to establish how the IB community can address shortcomings with existing gender equality research and strategy. Our review explains how and why gendered structural and relational processes and practices at multiple levels shape the varied experiences and behaviors of professionals in these firms. We use these findings to advance a new framework for the transnational analysis of gender equality, which synthesizes the dynamic processes and practices gendering PSFs and moves past top-down and colonial perspectives to counter biases in current theorization. We then set out three prospective agendas for the IB community to progress future gender equality research, strategy and practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":"34 3","pages":"Article 102417"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143579130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Valuing ESG: How financial markets respond to corporate sustainability

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International Business Review Pub Date : 2025-02-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102418

Le Chau , Le Anh , Vo Duc

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Internationalization and escapism: Government support as a pullback force for small and large enterprises

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International Business Review Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102416

Ebru Ozturk-Kose , Dimitrios Tsagdis , Alfredo Jiménez

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Political affinity and opportunism in global supply chain: The mediating role of contractual and relational governance

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International Business Review Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102415

Zhiwen Fan , Tao Wang , Zhongyi Han , Yu Jia

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Technology-seeking FDI policy change and local firm innovation

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International Business Review Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102411

Pei Wang , Ziliang Deng , Zhan Wu , Vikas Kumar

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Leadership development in the cross-cultural context of China: Who really cares?

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International Business Review Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102400

Daniel Agerbech Petersen, Keith Goodall

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Network effects of partial reshoring in the internationalization process 国际化进程中部分转产的网络效应

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International Business Review Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102401

Daniel Pedroletti

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