Corporate Values as Strategic Compasses for MNEs
Resilience and Progress in a World without Harmony
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In an age characterised by geopolitical fragmentation, technological disruption, and ethical contestation, global harmony becomes a myth. Multinational enterprises can no longer rely on stable institutions or universally shared norms. They must navigate competing values while reconsidering not only the value they create and capture, but also the value they add to—or take away from—society. They need moral and strategic anchors.
This volume examines how values-based organising can shape multinational enterprises and their internationalisation strategies in this increasingly contested global environment. Bringing together leading and emerging international business scholars, the volume explores how corporate values interact with purpose, governance, global value chains, leadership, sustainability, technological change, institutional complexity, and societal expectations.
Inspired by the intellectual legacy of the Agora—where differences were confronted through dialogue rather than eliminated—the volume approaches harmony not as consensus, but as the capacity to navigate tensions constructively. Values such as integrity, trust, openness and responsibility can become genuine strategic compasses, sustaining legitimacy and organisational coherence while enabling multinational enterprises to create positive societal value and remain competitive.
Volume 21 of Progress in International Business Research provides a timely contribution to debates on the future of international business in a world where firms increasingly have to decide not only where and how to compete, but what they stand for.
Introduction: Corporate Values as Strategic Compasses for MNEs in a World without Harmony; Rob van Tulder and Constantina Kottaridi
- Part I. Foundational Insights: Linking Values and Purpose
- Chapter 1. Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Values in a Global Context: Comparative Institutional Paths and the Enduring Challenge of Governance; Ruth V. Aguilera
- Chapter 2. Why MNEs Need Values as a Strategic Compass; Torben Pedersen
- Chapter 3. Corporate Purpose, Corporate Governance, and the MNE in a Conflicted World; Tanusree Jain
- Chapter 4. Corporate Purpose and Institutions: A Co-Evolutionary Perspective on MNEs; Jonathan P. Doh and Marloes Korendijk
- Chapter 5. Leadership Values in the U.S. Multinational Enterprise: An Essay on Market Trends and Moral Discontinuities; Cynthia A. Williams
- Part II. Corporate Values – Global Value Chains (GVCs)
- Chapter 6. The Myth of Responsible AI Harmony: Platform and ICT Multinationals, Ethical Convergence, and Internet Integrity; Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin, Viviana Pilato, and Thierry Warin
- Chapter 7. Internationalization, De-internationalization, Re-internationalization and Business Model Innovation: The Myth of Harmony?; Romeo V. Turcan, Jonas Strømfeldt Eduardsen, Jesper Chrautwald Sort, Tatyana Tsukanova, and Tiia Vissak
- Chapter 8. Digital Agoras: Value Pluralism in Smart Airports; Miklós Kozma and Izabella Jahn
- Chapter 9. Regional Social-Cost Risk in MNE-Governed Tree-Based Bioeconomy Pathways; Anna-Riikka Smolander and David Zilberman
- Chapter 10. Rethinking Drivers of Divestment through ESG: An Ethical Perspective; Dafni Grigoriadi
- Part III. Leadership and Societal Values
- Chapter 11. Shared Vision as a Strategic Compass: Building Trust in Culturally Distant International Strategic Alliances; Nikolaos Sklavounos, Panagiota-Athanasia Sapouna, and Katerina Kampouri
- Chapter 12. MNE–Community Interactions as a Values-Based Strategy; Jayne Cathcart, Renan Oliveira, Axèle Giroud, Pervez Ghauri, Jorge Carneiro, and Maria-Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez
- Chapter 13. Beyond the Myth of Harmony: Rebuilding Psychological Belonging in Digitally Mediated Multinational Enterprises; Dan Ha Le, Peter Zettinig, and Majid Aleem
- Chapter 14. Institutional Entrepreneurship and Legitimacy Building in an Emerging Market: The Case of India; Gro Alteren
- Chapter 15. The Strategic Role and Leadership Behaviors of Global Middle Managers in Japanese MNC’s Overseas Subsidiaries; Yoshimichi Shimada, Akira Kitai, and Nobuko Shimada
Rob van Tulder is emeritus full Professor of International Business-Society Management at RSM Erasmus University, Netherlands. He is also co-editor of the Progress in International Business Research series, AIB Fellow and elected member of the Academia Europeae.
Constantina Kottaridi is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Piraeus, Greece. She is director of the MSc. in Bioeconomy, Circular Economy and Sustainable Development, of the Sustainable Development and Circular Economy Laboratory and 2025 President of EIBA.