This article reviews the rapidly growing domain of global value chain (GVC) research by
analyzing several highly cited conceptual frameworks and then appraising GVC studies …

Highlights•Relational and instrumental rationality coexist in human decision-
making.•Instrumental views on decision-making are embedded in relational …

Although scholars in management recognize the value of harnessing big data to
understand, predict and respond to future events, there remains little or very limited overview …

Digital global connectivity offers multinational enterprises new opportunities, but it also
brings unique risks, an area not yet well examined in international business. This article …

We study the internationalization of digital service multinational enterprises (SMNCs),
focusing on how digitalization alters internalization theory's assumptions about the nature of …

Building on emerging debates on the 'dark'and 'bright'side of digital globalization, and calls
for considering its environmental and social implications in more detail, this perspective …

This article argues that the global value chains (GVC) perspective bridges the firm-specific,
private-sector and country-level, societal divide that has separated the international …

Internalization theory has provided a resilient analytical framework that explicitly or implicitly
underlines much of International Business scholarship. Internalization theory is not a …

This article offers a comprehensive and systematic review of the literature on Global Value
Chains (GVCs). The GVC framework has received growing attention in the last decade …

The international business (IB) literature has always analyzed multinational enterprises
(MNEs) as firms that internalize market transactions across national borders. Over the last …