Post by Critical Perspectives on International Business

📢 Just published in 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘉𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 The Trump II era is not simply producing policy reversals or increasing political risk. It is destabilising the legal, institutional and normative foundations on which responsible international business depends. In this viewpoint, Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Louise Curran, Heidy Montero Teran and Stefan Zagelmeyer bring together three connected perspectives on: 🔹 EU sustainability rollback and business lobbying 🔹 Neoliberalism, the climate crisis, and post-growth alternatives 🔹 The politicisation of business and human rights, ESG and DEI Across these perspectives, a common mechanism emerges: 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. Sustainability regulation, due diligence and human-rights commitments are weakened by being reframed as ideological, anti-competitive, sovereignty-threatening or contrary to national economic interests. The paper calls for international business research to examine not only how firms adapt to institutional change, but also how companies, governments, business associations and civil society actors participate in weakening, contesting or defending responsible-business governance. How should multinational enterprises respond when the legitimacy of corporate responsibility itself becomes politically contested? 🔗Link: https://lnkd.in/dgDewq4K #InternationalBusiness #Sustainability #BusinessAndHumanRights #GlobalValueChains #ESG #DueDiligence #PoliticalRisk #Geopolitics #CorporateResponsibility #AcademicResearch Rudolf R. Sinkovics, curran louise, Heidy Montero Teran, Dr Stefan Zagelmeyer, Brent Burmester, Alexei Koveshnikov, Marty Reilly, Talia Sharkawi, Barbara Bechter, Bernd Brandl, Stephen R. Buzdugan, Arne Floh, Mats Forsgren, David Freund, Rui Hou, Geoffrey Jones, Alex Mohr, Elfriede Penz, Dylan Sutherland, Ben Wooliscroft, Mo Yamin, Jennifer Manning. Durham University Business School, LUT University, TBS Education, Alliance Manchester Business School, British Academy of Management IB IM SIG, Centre for Strategy, Technological Innovation, and Operations (CSTIO), AIB-UKI Academy of International Business UK & Ireland Chapter, CMS AOM Division.