A Research Agenda for International Business and Management

Edited by Ödül Bozkurt, Senior Lecturer in International Human Resource Management, Department of Management, University of Sussex Business School, UK and Mike Geppert, Professor of Strategic and International Management, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Contents:

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