Research Agenda for International Business and Management

Edited by Ödül Bozkurt, Professor of Work and Employment, 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 Businessand Management: the promises and prospects ofthinking outside the box 1Mike Geppert and .dül BozkurtPART I REVISITING CORE IB/M THEORIES2 Do we need a theory of externalisation? 23Roger Strange3 Behavioural theory and MNE decision-making:changing the narrative in international businessmanagement 43Giulio Nardella, Rajneesh Narula and Irina Surdu4 Outward investment from emerging markets: timefor a paradigm shift? 63Suma AthreyePART II CHANGING ROLES OF NATION-STATES AND MNES5 The role of the home country in internationalbusiness and management research: state of theart and future research directions 87Florian Becker-Ritterspach and Khaled Fourati6 The diplomatic imperative: MNEs as internationalactors 109Brent BurmesterPART III INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT, POWERRELATIONS AND IDEOLOGY7 Treating ideology seriously in internationalbusiness and management research: a textualanalysis of the global “self-management” fad 131Leo McCann, Brian Wierman and Edward Granter8 Emerging economy MNCs and their geopoliticalembeddedness 153Ursula Mense-PetermannPART IV THEORIZING AND STUDYING NEWPHENOMENA IN IB/M: CRISIS, SLAVERY ANDMETHODOLOGY9 Managing the unavoidable: new avenues forresearch on MNEs and societal crises 175Verena Girschik and Jasper Hotho10 Developing parameters for the occurrence ofmodern slavery: towards an empirical validationof Crane’s (2013) theory of modern slavery 195Christoph Dörrenbächer and Lukas Ellermann11 The future of international business research:theorising on unfolding phenomena in a complex,dynamic world 221Peter Zettinig and Niina NummelaPART V COMMENTARY12 Commentary on fulfilling the future agenda ininternational business 245Jonathan P. DohIndex 251

'Climate change, increasing inequality, pandemic, political turmoil... ''Thinking out of the box'' is exactly what we need to do. But how can we do that? This book will help us leave our comfort zone and encourage our renewed challenges to overcome the box.'