Multinational enterprises, international relations and international business

Reconstituting intellectual boundaries for the new millennium

Bibliographic Data

ID12349019
AuthorsDarryl S L Jarvis (0000-0002-4661-9154, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume59
Issue2
Pages201-223
Publication date2005-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAustralian Journal Of International Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1035-7718 • E-ISSN: 1465-332X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10357710500134459
OpenAlexW2094428182
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited53

The rapidly changing nature of the international political economy along with its increasing complexity, poses challenges for both theoreticians as well as policymakers; the former in terms of developing innovative frameworks of analysis able to model and understand the constitutive nature and contours of its parameters; the latter in terms of developing suitable frameworks of analysis able to inform policy analysis and practical management strategies. This article explores these dilemmas from two disciplinary perspectives. First, from international relations (IR) theory, particularly how various theoretical approaches have failed to consider more fully the role of non-state actors like multinational enterprises (MNEs) despite the growth in their importance and the resources they control. Second, from the perspective of international business (IB) which, while focusing on MNEs, has done so in the absence of more contextual approaches that situate MNEs in power-political, regulatory, and inter-state environmental settings. By highlighting the weaknesses of both disciplinary approaches, the article then suggests that the construction of new interdisciplinary rubrics jointly created from IR and IB, offers a better means of appreciating the changing character of the global political economy and some of its most important actors and emerging processes

Discipline · Economic system · Economics · International business · International relations · Multinational corporation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rubric · Sociology · State (computer science · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law

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