This longitudinal single case study examines how the senior management of a Japanese MNC was able to recreate and rebuild trust with its stakeholders after a major disruption. We chose an internationally renowned case of whistleblowing which had considerable impact on the global markets on which it operated. As an emblematic example of Japanese corporate governance failure, it provided an interesting opportunity to investigate trust repair in non-Western research context. We found that both verbal and behavioural tactics are needed in the trust repair process and they are used in combination and in parallel to each other. However, regaining the trust of stakeholders takes years and in the case of a major disruption of trust, verbal trust repair tactics are necessary but not sufficient alone. Restoring trust requires continuous use of behavioural tactics and significant changes, such as major organisational renewals and a change of routines and processes. We also argue that in the case of MNCs, one should not underestimate the importance of cultural differences.

People, especially from emerging markets and developing countries, move to advanced economies for work or economic opportunity, to join family, or to study. Change of immigration policy in favour of skilled workers, professionals, people with special talents and innovative businesses have seen a growth of international immigrants. Institutional factors and individual reasons influence the decision to engage in entrepreneurial activities among immigrants. Past research suggests immigrants from low-income developing countries would open their own ventures due to limited opportunities available in the host country, and the ventures would mostly serve their own community. This leads to the question of what immigrants from higher-income emerging economies would do differently. This research employs qualitative research design to explore the underlying motivation and challenges of immigrants starting a business in northern England. First-generation immigrants from middle-income countries in Asia will be the focus of this research.

Existing studies have analysed the identity of multinational corporations (MNCs) from social and organisational levels respectively in an international business setting. However, little has been written about exploring the micro-processes of their identity formation, i.e. from the view of individuals. Our paper investigates the process of MNC identity formation with the challenges of cultural diversity and national identity in the firm’s team membership. We argue that MNCs (re)form their identity via building integrated management routes and network relationships of individual professionals between headquarters and subsidiaries. We contribute to developing an integrated understanding of social and organisational identity in MNCs within a dual embeddedness context. The findings offer insights into revealing the actual process where identities were formed and constructed by bringing together micro-level analyses of the process and observations of the macro-level phenomena. We concluded with an exploratory case study with 19 interviews of managing partners and legal professionals at a Chinese multinational law firm and five individual interviews with legal professionals at four other Chinese law firms with an office in London.

The global world continues to witness a shift in terrorism owing to the peculiar nature of the concept. As the world continues to evolve due to recurring economic, social and political events, terrorist organisations have also found ways of adapting their activities to this ever-changing world. As a result of this, the concept of terrorism to attributes of a chameleon due to the different forms in which this phenomenon has manifested itself over the years. This has not just led to the definition of the concept being very challenging but also to highly diverse methods in the practice of terrorism by perpetrators. The complexity of the concept has made it very difficult to emerge with a singular definition that clearly explains what terrorism is without including factors beyond the scope of the concept or excluding factors associated with the concept. Exploring the variations of terrorism warrants an understanding of the classifications of terrorism and terrorist acts which are canopied under two typologies: domestic and transnational terrorism. This paper focuses on the former and its impact on international business.

The financial impact and cost of domestic terrorism on both a macro and firm level have over the years run into millions of US dollars. This is no surprise considering the multifaceted dimensions of the effects posed by this type of terrorism. Mainstream literature on the implications of domestic terrorism have evaluated terrorist activities from a macro perspective considering economic indicator such as FDI inflows, economic growth and so on. However, there is minimal research on the implications of domestic terrorism at the firm level. This paper intends to investigate these implications with the firm as the focal point of discourse.