International and comparative perspectives

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Trade and Transfer Between China and the Second World During the Cold War: An Enterprise Perspective

During the Cold War, China’s critical trading partners included Europe, Japan, and other nations that Mao referred to as the “Second World,” serving as China’s gateway to the global economy (Kelly, 2021). Amid the U.S.-led embargo in the early 1950s, these Second World nations became the central focus of China’s foreign economic diplomacy, allowing China to access Western industrial products and technology.

Transnational Institutions and Local Actors in Management Development Debates in the Global South

Recent research on the global development of management education and training has moved the focus from studying how US ideas and models were received in Western Europe to studying processes outside the most industrialized part of the world. This session connects to this new stream of research by exploring the transnational exchange of management knowledge and models for management education and development with a focus on North Africa, Latin America, and India.

Multinational Enterprises and the Politics of Labor in the Twentieth Century: Panel 1

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) rely on labor in home and host countries to carry out their production, sales, and service operations and increase profits. In many cases, labor market conditions (such as lower wages) even motivate multinationals to enter a host country in the first place. By the same token, organized labor and labor protections pose significant challenges to MNEs.