Aug 2026· Multinational Business Review· pp. 1-15· 0 citations· 32 references
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This paper advances the resilience imperative in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), a strategically significant yet underexplored context in international business research, by offering a conceptual point of view. This study aims to conceptually integrate diverse empirical and conceptual contributions from the special issue to clarify how the region’s distinctive institutional, political and social dynamics shape organizational and community resilience.
Adopting a multilevel and multistakeholder perspective, this viewpoint synthesizes insights from the special issue’s contributions, including conceptual reviews, qualitative case studies, longitudinal phenomenological research and participatory action research on organizational, community and sectoral resilience in LAC. The discussion organizes these insights into four interrelated analytical dimensions: regional institutional context and value definition; governance architectures and policy alignment; capability development encompassing digital, social and environmental dimensions; and stakeholder embedding and legitimacy.
This paper identifies four mutually reinforcing dimensions of resilience in LAC. First, institutional context and value definition are shaped by pendular policy regimes and persistent implementation gaps. Second, governance architectures affect community resilience by allocating decision rights and rents. Third, multidimensional capability development spans digital, social and environmental aspects. Finally, stakeholder embedding and legitimacy reveal a potential dark side of resilience, whereby firm-level adaptation strategies may externalize risks to vulnerable workers and communities.
This paper proposes a five-step blueprint to guide multinational enterprises, domestic firms and policymakers in developing context-sensitive resilience strategies for LAC that are effective, competitive and socially inclusive. It reframes resilience as both a strategic and ethical imperative in international business, extending beyond a narrow risk-management perspective. It also advances an agenda for longitudinal, multilevel and comparative research that examines both the enabling and constraining outcomes of resilience across contexts.
This study investigates how Bali, Indonesia, and Beishan, China, strategically sustain their cultural identities amid globalising pressures. It addresses a gap in comparative resilience research by moving beyond sector-specific analyses to uncover the underlying principles of cultural adaptation. Using qualitative oral history, the research captures grassroots perspectives to reveal two contrasting paradigms: Bali enacts centripetal resilience, defending a sacred cultural core through ritual and social cohesion, whereas Beishan pursues centrifugal innovation, treating heritage as assets for entrepreneurial fusion with global culture. The findings demonstrate that the nature of perceived threats shapes whether communities adopt defensive fortification or proactive reinvention. The study argues that cultural resilience is not a universal strategy but a contextually coherent alignment of ontology, threat perception, and adaptive action. By proposing a comparative framework of centripetal and centrifugal resilience, it advances resilience theory and provides a transferable analytical lens for understanding how communities negotiate continuity and change across diverse cultural contexts.
I Putu Permana Mahardika, I Gusti Ayu Gde Sosiowati, I Wayan Mulyawan et al.· Jurnal Kajian Bali· 0 citations
The purpose of this study is to analyze three Brazilian territories marked by tense relationships between companies and communities, seeking to understand how these ties are constructed over time.
This study adopts an exploratory qualitative approach (Eisenhardt, 1989). From an epistemological standpoint, the study is grounded in an interpretivist perspective (Cunliffe, 2011).
The findings indicate that multi-stakeholder governance is a dynamic process, in which organizational arrangements, power distribution and forms of social value creation are continuously reconfigured over time. The study demonstrates how governance models emerge, evolve and are contested throughout the relationship cycle, thereby influencing the generation of social value.
Although the study does not measure social impact through public policy indicators, its findings engage with key challenges of the 2030 Agenda, particularly sustainable development goals (SDG) 16 (governance, coordination and legitimacy in contexts of institutional fragility), SDG 10 (power asymmetries and the expansion of community participation) and SDG 11 (territorial dynamics and firm–community relationships). Thus, the article provides an analytical foundation for understanding how multi-stakeholder arrangements may enable or constrain more equitable and sustainable responses in Global South territories.
This study makes three contributions to the literature on multi-stakeholder governance (Bridoux & Stoelhorst, 2022) and social value creation (Lazzarini, 2020).
L. Angellotti, M. Gama· RAE: Revista de Administraçã...· 0 citations
This essay interrogates the limitations of universal policy transfer models by examining how the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) travel from Western institutional architectures into the governance realities of the Global South
(Sierra Leone as a case). Drawing on policy transfer, translation, and mobility scholarship, it argues that the success of
global frameworks does not hinge on similarity between contexts as (Dolowitz and Marsh, 1996) suggest, but on the capacity
of domestic actors to reinterpret, hybridise, and embed external ideas within their own political, cultural, and institutional
logics. The analysis shows that Sierra Leone’s SDG adoption is shaped by structural constraints, weak data systems,
donor-driven incentives, and deep historical legacies, producing incomplete and often misaligned transfers. Yet, the case
also reveals meaningful adaptive strategies: localisation through the Sierra Leone Medium-Term National Development
Plan (SLMTNDP), consultative voluntary reviews, and hybrid governance arrangements that negotiate global norms with
local priorities. Ultimately, the essay positions Sierra Leone as emblematic of wider African experiences where global
development agendas collide with and are reshaped by fragile institutions, informal economies, and entrenched social norms.
It concludes that policy transfer in such settings is neither linear nor replicative but a contested, negotiated process in which
agency, translation, and contextual sensitivity determine outcomes. This reframing contributes to contemporary debates on
decolonising global governance and designing development frameworks that recognise complexity rather than impose
one-size-fits-all models.
Alusine Diamond- Suma· International Journal of Inn...· 0 citations
This study investigates the relevance of sustainable governance (SG) and its impactful elements in the context of the Russian market, a unique case of an isolated economy, using market value as a proxy for concept relevance. Adopting stakeholder and institutional approaches, this study uses panel data from 152 firms listed on the Moscow Exchange from 2020 to 2023 to analyze the SG concept in consistency with the World Economic Forum's governance framework, which decomposes SG into strategic, stakeholder, and anticorruption components. The findings reveal a significant, positive association between SG and firm market value, confirming the overall relevance of the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) triad's “G” component, even in a geopolitically isolated and institutionally distinctive context, although each SG component's value relevance differs. This study contributes to the stakeholder theory literature by highlighting the need to consistently contextualize global frameworks with institutional motivations and contributes to the broader debates on cultural specificity in governance theory.
E. Kiseleva, Andrea Cardoni, E. Makeeva et al.· Business Strategy and the En...· 0 citations
This article analyzes approaches to studying the resilience of Ukrainian society under Russia's full-scale invasion and develops an integrated conceptual model of societal resilience. Using systematic review and conceptual modelling, the authors map interconnections between societal resilience, agency, cultural resistance, and violence — categories that have thus far developed largely within separate strands of research. The analysis identifies three main conceptual approaches to the sources of resilience: the institutional approach (institutions' capacity to function and coordinate responses under pressure), the socio-psychological approach (capacity to adapt, cope with trauma, and sustain trust and cohesion), and the cultural-values approach (shared values, national identity, and cultural practices as sources of meaning for resisting existential threats). Despite their differences, all three converge around social agency as the mechanism that converts available resources and opportunities into national resilience. The study's main contribution is integrating Galtung's multidimensional concept of structural violence with theories of cultural resistance, agency, and complex adaptive systems into a single generative model, showing how societies transform experiences of domination, violence, and threats into collective action and resilient outcomes, with cultural resistance as the central generative mechanism. This is a first attempt to combine the dimensions of resilience as capacity, process, and outcome within a single analytical framework. The model is preliminary and serves as a foundation for further theoretical development and empirical testing in diverse contexts, with Ukraine as a key case for understanding resilience under extreme and prolonged violence.
S. Salnikova, Yurii Savelyev, Artemiy Deineka et al.· Sociology: Theory, Methods,...· 0 citations
Research on climate action increasingly highlights the multilevel dynamics of policymaking, with upscaling—the expansion, adaptation, and sustainability of policies across contexts—emerging as a central concern. While European studies stress communication channels, financial resources, political leadership, party strength, and civil society engagement, this article argues that perspectives from Latin America can enrich the analytical framework of climate governance. The study examines Chile's Framework Law on Climate Change (No. 21.455), focusing on the Municipality Climate Change Action Plan (PACCC). This hierarchical upscaling initiative struggled to move beyond pioneering municipalities, as most local governments were unable to meet the initial legal deadline. Using a mixed‐methods approach—combining a database of subnational climate policy plans and 15 semi‐structured interviews with local officials—the article asks what multilevel governance factors account for the difficulties in the hierarchical upscaling of local climate action in Chile? The analysis identifies three key factors that are broadly relevant to upscaling. First, limited state capacity constrains policy implementation. Second, uneven decentralization across political, administrative, and economic dimensions deepens disparities between municipalities. Third, middle managers emerge as pivotal actors who, alongside mayors, foster innovation and offset weak technical expertise. By clarifying the barriers and enablers of upscaling in the case, the article contributes to international debates on climate action and the dynamics of multilevel policymaking in the Global South.
Antoine Maillet, C. Garber, Cecilia Ibarra et al.· Environmental Policy and Gov...· 0 citations
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