International Business

Florian Becker-Ritterspach is Professor of Organization at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW Berlin). He has held senior academic and leadership positions at the German University in Cairo and has been Founding Dean of the Faculty of Business at the German International University in Cairo since 2019. His research and teaching focus on international management, intercultural management, organization theory, emerging markets, and airline business models. Christoph Dörrenbächer is Professor of Organizational Design and Behaviour in International Business at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. He previously worked as a consultant, a research fellow, and held visiting appointments at institutions across Europe. For over a decade, he was Co-Editor-in-Chief of Critical Perspectives on International Business and is now Senior Editor. His research and teaching focus on international business, international strategy, headquarters-subsidiary relationships, and MNE careers from a critical management perspective. Lutz Preuss is Professor of Strategic Management at Kedge Business School. He previously held professorial appointments at the University of Sussex and the University of East Anglia, as well as junior positions at Royal Holloway University of London and Heriot-Watt University. His research addresses topics in the field of corporate sustainability, in particular cognitive processes underlying decision-making in the face of tensions between economic and non-economic issues. His work has been published in leading academic journals, including Academy of Management Review, Organizations Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business and Journal of Business Ethics.

• Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. The emergence and trajectory of critical IB; 2. Multinational enterprises misbehaviour; 3. The global business environment; Part II. Key Actors in MNE Decision-making: 4. MNE management; 5. Capital and labour; 6. Governments; Part III. The Distribution of IB Activities across Geographical Space: 7. Mapping IB activities from a geography-centred perspective; 8. Explaining IB activities from a geography-centred perspective; 9. Mapping IB activities from a firm-centred perspective; 10. Explaining IB activities from a firm-centred perspective; Part IV. The Contemporary MNE: 11. International strategy, organization and value chain orchestration; 12. Knowledge transfer in MNEs; 13. Emerging markets and emerging market MNEs; 14. The digital economy and digital MNEs; Part V. Sustainability in International Business: 15. Advancing towards sustainable development; 16. Tools to manage sustainability; 17. Towards a sustainability-conscious MNE.