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Focused Issue: Protectionism in International Business

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Globalization has increased the ebb and flow of products, capital, employees, and information. However, these flows have been interrupted by the recent waves of nationalistic, xenophobic, and anti-globalist movements of all stripes (Ghemawat, 2016). Populist governments have risen in various parts of Europe, the Americas and Asia and have led to renewed trade and geopolitical tensions along the East-West and South-North axes. Thus, we believe that examination of the links between environmental condition, such as protectionism, tariffs, immigration policies, censorship, surveillance, trade and investment agreements, convertibility restrictions and trade wars, institutions and the multinational enterprise is very timely in the International Business domain. Recent shifts towards the more protectionist and nationalistic policies in the political terrain of the two major energy-importing and consuming nations on both sides of the Pacific are set to pose existential concerns and questions for policymakers (Aidelojie, 2019; Alon & Kim, 2022; Evenett, 2019).

Aidelojie, K. E. A. (2019). Brexit and Trumpism: The Renaissance of Protectionism and Nationalism and Its Effect on Twenty-First-Century African Energy Policy. In Energy in Africa (pp. 15-39). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Alon, A., & Kim, O. (2022). Protectionism through legislative layering: Implications for auditors and investors. Journal of International Business Policy, 5(3), 363–383.

Evenett, S. J. (2019). Protectionism, state discrimination, and international business since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis. Journal of International Business Policy, 2, 9–36.

Ghemawat, P. (2016). The laws of globalization and business applications. Cambridge University Press.

Please note that this online collection was also published as a focused issue (vol 63, Issue 5). The order of articles presented in the Editorial is the order they were published in the focused issue.

Editors

  • Mohammad Ahammad Mohammad Ahammad , 

    Mohammad Ahammad

    University of Leeds, UK m.f.ahammad@leeds.ac.uk

  • Ilan Alon Ilan Alon , 

    Ilan Alon

    University of Agder, Norway. ilan.alon@uia.no

  • Jeremy Clegg Jeremy Clegg , 

    Jeremy Clegg

    University of Leeds, UK l.j.clegg@lubs.leeds.ac.uk

  • Shlomo Tarba Shlomo Tarba  &

    Shlomo Tarba

    University of Birmingham, UK s.tarba@bham.ac.uk

  • Ilan Vertinsky  Ilan Vertinsky 

    Ilan Vertinsky 

    University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada ilan.vertinsky@ubc.ca

Articles (6 in this collection)