Jean J. Boddewyn

The domain of international management

Recent domain statements by the International Management Division of the Academy of Management and by the Editors of this journal are critiqued in terms of contents as well as of their lack of definitions of the key terms international and management and of an analysis of the latters interaction. This article emphasizes traditional interpretations of these terms as a starting point for further discussions of international management scholarship whose boundaries are bound to expand and change even though consensus about the International Management field is unlikely in the near future.

The legitimacy of international-business political behavior

Political behavior on the part of international-business firms must be evaluated, like any other type of business behavior. The concept of legitimacy provides a way of framing this evaluative issue because it definitely includes a consideration of “values” without having to specify which values apply—a task left to ethicists.

Integrating Business Political Behavior with Economic and Organizational Strategies

External business political behavior characterizes all firms if one acknowledges both its well-known modes of conflict and partnership (called here bargaining behavior) and its less visible nonbargaining forms of compliance, avoidance, and circumvention. We discuss the commonality and strategic nature of political behavior and relate it to economic and organizational strategies, and we demonstrate that the inclusion of political behavior can sharpen the match between the strategy discourse and the problem space where real firms compete.

The Taxation of Advertising: A Review of Current Issues

Abstract The taxation of advertising revenues and expenditures is affected by various economic and social developments such as the growth of the services economy. Analyzing the issues, principles, forces, processes and structures involved in the debate over taxes casts new perspectives on what advertising, as part of the marketing and communication functions, contributes to firms, economy and society. It also explains why pressures for more taxes will remain strong even though the advertising industry is now better prepared to fight them.