...Rudolf R. Sinkovics; Louise Curran; Heidy Montero-Teran; Stefan Zagelmeyer Purpose This viewpoint paper examines how the return of the Trump administration is reshaping international business, sustainability governance and global institutions. Organised as a structured bricolage of three...

...Túlio Josué Pinheiro dos Santos; Bruno Anicet Bittencourt; Mikaela Floriano; Laura Grippa Ryzewski Purpose The study aims to investigate how institutional voids influence the formation and the implementation of sustainability practices by Brazilian suppliers in the textile sector. Design...

... firms International business F53 – International agreements and observance International organisations F55 – International institutional arrangements P16 – Political economy Q56 – Environment and development sustainability Environmental accounts and accounting Geopolitics has emerged...

...Oscar Csibi Purpose This study aims to investigate the role of sustainability in the internationalization strategies of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This study explores the paradoxes faced by SMEs aiming to balance social, environmental and economic goals. This study focuses...

... into business models. Drawing on the books of Geoffrey Jones (2023) “Deeply Responsible Business” and Rob van Tulder and Eveline van Mil (2023) “Principles of Sustainable Business”, the paper provides comments and analysis of how principles and values can guide engaged international business (IB) scholarship...

.... However, gender inequalities persist as a significant concern, with female employees more disproportionately affected compared to their male counterparts (Beattie, 2022 ; Takano, 2024). Despite its status as a developed country with ample resources, Japan struggles to sustain or improve its GGG ranking...

...Maria Teresa Beamond; Marina Schmitz; Miguel Cordova; Maria Vasileva Ilieva; Shasha Zhao; Daria Panina Purpose This paper aims to clarify how business education has and should incorporate more resources, policies and stakeholder engagement towards the incorporation of sustainability, by conducting...

... provide solutions to the grand challenges as defined e.g. through the UN sustainable development goals (UN SDGs) (United Nations, 2015). The titles of two recent calls for papers in the discipline’s “top tier” journals are illustrative of this one-sidedness: one call, published in 2022 in the Journal...

... (Dörrenbächer et al., 2021). Scholars consider multinational enterprises (MNEs) to be the actors that can make attempts toward achieving higher levels of sustainable development (Stephenson et al., 2021). Addressing sustainability concerns has been identified as one of the strategic goals...

...Asmund Rygh; Eleni Chiarapini; María Vallejo Segovia Purpose Realising the sustainable development goals (SDGs) will require substantial efforts from both governments, businesses, civil society and academic researchers. This paper aims to discuss the contributions that the international business...

...Cecilia Lobo Araujo; Marc Eric Barda Picavet; Cristina Aparecida Pires de Souza Sartoretto; Enrico Dalla Riva; Paulo Sodre Hollaender Purpose This study aims to propose a framework to drive organizations, and particularly multinational enterprises, to understand and internalize a sustainable...

... not adequately captured the intricacies present in the internationalization of renewable energy enterprises. Internationalization of SMEs International entrepreneurship Renewable energy Sustainability Cleantech Antecedents to internationalization Globalization and changing trends, coupled...

... level. This question could be addressed in further research. In addition, the findings open new questions around possible synergies between local policies and MNE efforts on sustainability. Increasing cooperation between Chinese and international standard setters around CSR opens the question of whether...

... sustainability considerations into their business decisions. The paper argues that these assumptions are not presented as a human construction or agreement, instead they are treated as though they are a given, a prerequisite to a business system. By comparing qualitative statements in a cross-cultural study...

...George Cairns Edited by Subhash C.   Jain and Ben L.   Kedia . Enhancing Global Competitiveness through Sustainable Environmental Stewardship . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar   2011 . xiii+234 pp. , ISBN: 978 1 84844 874 2 (hardback); 978 0 85793 325 6 (e‐book) 65GBP (hardback...