Offering a forward-looking and critical approach to International Business, this textbook demonstrates how multinational enterprises (MNEs) shape and are shaped by a rapidly changing global environment. Bringing together established theories, emerging critical perspectives, and interdisciplinary insights, the book equips students to understand contemporary MNEs' strategies, the roles and interests of key actors, and the geographic and firm-level structures of international business activity. Through rich real-world examples, integrative case studies, themed boxes, and review questions, the book bridges theory and practice,…