The objective of this article is to show how narrative methods provide useful tools for international business research. We do this by presenting a study of stories told about the collaboration between a Danish expatriate manager and his Chinese CEO in the Shanghai subsidiary of an MNE. First,...

Much research has studied off-shore outsourcing from a Western client perspective. This article tries to shed light on what an Indian vendor perceives as important to manage large and complex strategic partnerships in IT outsourcing, and in particular how mutually profitable, long-term...

Summary This article focuses on the cultural encounters and learning processes that take place in the context of multinational companies. First, it argues that a narrative approach to expatriation and cultural encounters may enlighten us to the ways in which these phenomena are understood and...