Journal of International Business Policy

2018 - 2025

Current editor(s): Sarianna Lundan, Ari Van Assche and Anne Hoekman

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Volume 4, issue 4, 2021

Emerging from war: Public policy and patterns of foreign direct investment recovery in postwar environments pp. 455-475

Robert J. Moore

Political corporate social responsibility in authoritarian contexts pp. 476-495

Anna-Lena Maier

National security and FDI policy ambiguity: A commentary pp. 496-505

Keyan Lai

Trade policies, firm strategies, and adaptive reconfigurations of global value chains pp. 506-522

Gary Gereffi, Hyun-Chin Lim and Joonkoo Lee

Linking Malawi’s agricultural sector to global value chains: The case for community governance pp. 523-540

Johanna Gammelgaard, Stine Haakonsson and Sine Nørholm Just

Value distribution and markets for social justice in global value chains: Interdependence relationships and government policy pp. 541-563

Lilac Nachum

Volume 4, issue 3, 2021

Making sense of global value chain-oriented policies: The trifecta of tasks, linkages, and firms pp. 327-346

Carlo Pietrobelli, Roberta Rabellotti and Ari Van Assche

The effect of institutional pressures on business-led interventions to improve social compliance among emerging market suppliers in global value chains pp. 347-367

Anthony Goerzen, Simon Peter Iskander and Joerg Hofstetter

Understanding regional value chains through the interaction of public and private governance: Insights from Southern Africa’s apparel sector pp. 368-389

Giovanni Pasquali, Shane Godfrey and Khalid Nadvi

Value chain approaches to reducing policy spillovers on international business pp. 390-409

Christopher Findlay and Bernard Hoekman

The IO–PS in the context of GVC-related policymaking: The case of the South African automotive industry pp. 410-432

Wouter G. Bam, Karolien De Bruyne and Mare Laing

Capturing value in GVCs through intangible assets: The role of the trade–investment–intellectual property nexus pp. 433-452

Alexander Jaax and Sébastien Miroudot

Correction to: FDI in hot labour markets: The implications of the war for talent pp. 453-454

Bettina Becker, Nigel Driffield, Sandra Lancheros and James H. Love

Volume 4, issue 2, 2021

From the editors: Reflections on the nexus of complementarity between international business research and the policy practitioner community pp. 201-205

Sarianna Lundan and Ari Assche

GVC transformation and a new investment landscape in the 2020s: Driving forces, directions, and a forward-looking research and policy agenda pp. 206-220

James X. Zhan

Exogenous and endogenous change in global value chains pp. 221-227

Peter J. Buckley

Going digital multinationals: Navigating economic and social imperatives in a post-pandemic world pp. 228-243

Niraja Srinivasan and Lorraine Eden

Improving the distribution of FDI benefits: The need for policy-oriented research, advice, and advocacy pp. 244-261

Karl P. Sauvant

Trade policy shocks in the UK textile and apparel value chain: Firm perceptions of Brexit uncertainty pp. 262-285

Patrizia Casadei and Simona Iammarino

Group subsidiaries, tax minimization and offshore financial centres: Mapping organizational structures to establish the ‘in-betweener’ advantage pp. 286-307

Richard Phillips, Hannah Petersen and Ronen Palan

Trade agreement depth, foreign direct investment, and the moderating role of property rights pp. 308-325

Jonas Gamso and Robert Grosse

Volume 4, issue 1, 2021

The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals: Can multinational enterprises lead the Decade of Action? pp. 1-21

Rob Van Tulder, Suzana B. Rodrigues, Hafiz Mirza and Kathleen Sexsmith

Business alignment for the “Decade of Action” pp. 22-27

Jeffrey D. Sachs and Lisa E. Sachs

Evidence-based policymaking and the wicked problem of SDG 5 Gender Equality pp. 28-57

Lorraine Eden and M. Fernanda Wagstaff

Dynamic synergies between China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals pp. 58-79

Donald J. Lewis, Xiaohua Yang, Diana Moise and Stephen John Roddy

Small- and medium-sized enterprises and sustainable development: In the shadows of large lead firms in global value chains pp. 80-101

Noemi Sinkovics, Rudolf Sinkovics and Jason Archie-Acheampong

Financial benefits of reimagined, sustainable, agrifood supply networks pp. 102-118

Tracy Van Holt, Martin Delaroche, Ulrich Atz and Kevin Eckerle

Governance in energy democracy for Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges and opportunities for partnerships at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec pp. 119-135

Jacobo Ramirez

Multinational enterprises and Sustainable Development Goals: A foreign subsidiary perspective on tackling wicked problems pp. 136-151

Ru-Shiun Liou and Rekha Rao-Nicholson

More and better investment now! How unlocking sustainable and digital investment flows can help achieve the SDGs pp. 152-165

Matthew Stephenson, Mohammed Faiz Shaul Hamid, Augustine Peter, Karl P. Sauvant, Adnan Seric and Lucia Tajoli

Investing in the Sustainable Development Goals: Mobilization, channeling, and impact pp. 166-183

James X. Zhan and Amelia Santos-Paulino

Corporate uptake of the Sustainable Development Goals: Mere greenwashing or an advent of institutional change? pp. 184-200

Addisu A. Lashitew

Volume 3, issue 4, 2020

Twenty-five years since TRIPS: Patent policy and international business pp. 315-328

Suma Athreye, Lucia Piscitello and Kenneth C. Shadlen

Innovativeness and the design of intellectual property rights in preferential trade agreements: A refinement of the North–South explanation pp. 329-348

Christoph Mödlhamer

Discrimination against foreigners in the U.S. patent system pp. 349-366

Gaétan de Rassenfosse and Reza Hosseini

Access to medicines after TRIPS: Is compulsory licensing an effective mechanism to lower drug prices? A review of the existing evidence pp. 367-384

Eduardo Urias and Shyama V. Ramani

Pharmaceutical patent examination outcomes in the Dominican Republic pp. 385-407

Luis Gil Abinader

Chinese whispers: COVID-19, global supply chains in essential goods, and public policy pp. 408-429

Simon J. Evenett

Reshaping the policy debate on the implications of COVID-19 for global supply chains pp. 430-442

Sébastien Miroudot

Piketty, Thunberg, or Marx? Shifting ideologies in the COVID-19 bailout conditionality debate pp. 443-450

Elisa Giuliani

Beyond COVID-19: Applying “SDG logics” for resilient transformations pp. 451-464

Jan Anton van Zanten and Rob van Tulder

World Investment Report 2020: International production beyond the pandemic pp. 465-468

Axèle Giroud and Inge Ivarsson

Volume 3, issue 3, 2020

Expanding the international trade and investment policy agenda: The role of cities and services pp. 199-223

Christine Côté, Saul Estrin and Daniel Shapiro

Who wants their city to become a world city? Comment on “Expanding the international trade and investment policy agenda: The role of cities and services” pp. 224-228

Frederick Guy

Income divergence and global connectivity of U.S. urban regions pp. 229-248

Maximilian Buchholz, Harald Bathelt and John Cantwell

Policy, institutional fragility, and Chinese outward foreign direct investment: An empirical examination of the Belt and Road Initiative pp. 249-272

Dylan Sutherland, John Anderson, Nicholas Bailey and Ilan Alon

From the editor: COVID-19 and international business policy pp. 273-279

Ari Van Assche and Sarianna Lundan

How globalization became a thing that goes bump in the night pp. 280-286

Stephen J. Kobrin

What does the COVID-19 pandemic teach us about global value chains? The case of medical supplies pp. 287-301

Gary Gereffi

Policy opportunities and challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic for economies with large informal sectors pp. 302-310

Rajneesh Narula

China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the COVID-19 crisis pp. 311-314

Peter J. Buckley

Volume 3, issue 2, 2020

Catching-up in the global factory: Analysis and policy implications pp. 79-106

Peter J. Buckley, Roger Strange, Marcel Timmer and Gaaitzen de Vries

FDI in hot labour markets: The implications of the war for talent pp. 107-133

Bettina Becker, Nigel Driffield, Sandra Lancheros and James H. Love

MNE–SME co-innovation in peripheral regions pp. 134-153

Shameen Prashantham and Sumelika Bhattacharyya

The grass is always greener: The impact of home and host country CSR reputation signaling on cross-country investments pp. 154-182

Luis Alfonso Dau, Elizabeth M Moore and William Newburry

Foreignness in public–private partnerships: The case of project finance investments pp. 183-197

Bernadine J. Dykes, Charles E. Stevens and Nandini Lahiri

Volume 3, issue 1, 2020

Separate but not equal: Toward a nomological net for migrants and migrant entrepreneurship pp. 1-22

Lisa Jones Christensen, Arielle Badger Newman, Heidi Herrick and Paul Godfrey

Diaspora investment promotion via public–private partnerships: Case-study insights and IB research implications from the Succeed in Ireland initiative pp. 23-37

Elena Poliakova, Liesl Riddle and Michael E. Cummings

An ecosystem-based analysis of design innovation infringements: South Korea and China in the global tire industry pp. 38-57

Jung Kwan Kim and Ram Mudambi

China’s intellectual property regime pp. 58-59

Suma Athreye

China’s intellectual property rights provocation: A political economy view pp. 60-72

Shaomin Li and Ilan Alon

China’s intellectual property rights policies: A strategic view pp. 73-77

Minyuan Zhao