Miguel Dindial

University of Leeds · International Business Department

This paper engages with the important work of Rašković (2023). We agree with Rašković’s (2023) argument that international business (IB) policy is well positioned to inform and address many of society’s wicked problems, including modern slavery. Beyond supporting this position, the purpose of our paper is to highlight IB’s internal and ongoing deba...

We investigate how the introduction of different types of innovation and the adoption of various digital technologies during exogenous shocks, influence firms' sales growth. By drawing from a sample of 1979 firms from the Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) during the COVID-19 pandemic, we show that although some innovation types enhanc...

We propose that natural disasters (specifically hurricanes) encourage the development of green innovations in small island developing states (SIDS). Using a novel and unique dataset of hurricane instances and green innovation activities in SIDS, we find that hurricanes follow a U-shaped relationship with green innovations. This suggests that while...

As 2020 came to a close, the CEO of RAMPS Logistics, Shaun Rampersad, reflected on his tenure thus far. He had just wrapped up a strategic planning meeting with his team as they prepared for an important meeting with their bankers to discuss some further expansion. Shaun was in the process of preparing to discuss the financing of the new chapter in...

In this research note we explore the role of informality and social networks in building resilience during the COVID-19 crisis. We present preliminary findings drawn from semi-structured interviews in a Small Island developing country, Trinidad and Tobago, and uncover how business informality, which has carried a negative connotation in the extant...

One of the critical challenges to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) continues to be access to finance (World Bank 2019).Moveable Asset-based lending (MABL) is emerging as a unique financing option for businesses and a new way to provide working-capital financing to support business growth and sustain business operations. This report ev...

Researchers have tried to understand how insertion into global value chains (GVCs) can lead to economic upgrading for the developing country firms (DCFs) involved. Many of these studies operationalize upgrading as a DCF's movement into higher value‐added activities, where the creation and appropriation of value‐added are assumed to be symbiotic. In...

The last two decades have seen unprecedented increases in the global fragmentation and dispersion of production and trade. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as global value chains (GVCs) and is largely driven by the actions of multinational enterprises (MNEs). It is widely accepted, both within academic and policy spheres, that rising GVCs ac...