A growing hotel sector makes a significant environmental footprint. Due to a contemporary focus on climate change and high competition within tourism, enhancing sustainability through energy savings is a priority for many hotels. Through technological innovations, Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology provides the opportunity to integrate more systems (e.g., heating, air-conditioning, window-openings) on a platform (also known as smart management), making it easy for a hotel guest to operate room conditions through a single device while also optimizing hotel operations. A research gap on the likelihood of adopting IoT technology to pursue sustainability in the hotel sector exists. Based on explorative case studies of five high-end hotels, this paper offers propositions on drivers for hotels’ use of IoT to deliver on their sustainability goals. This study suggests that a hotel is more inclined to implement IoT if (1) the hotel is focused on energy savings, e.g., due to green certificates; (2) it belongs to an international hotel group; (3) decision makers perceive sustainability to be important for their customers; (4) the target group is more B2B (business) than B2C (leisure); (5) the hotel a five star one; and (6) the hotel guests come from Northern Europe or North America.

This study identifies the determinants of corporate social responsibility (CSR) application in the hotel industry of the Colombian Caribbean. A structured CSR questionnaire was applied to a sample of 224 hotels and multivariate statistical analysis was carried out with the support of the DYANE software. The findings suggest that the degree of CSR application is influenced by the size, age, category, type of contract, financial performance, and level of investment in innovation of the establishments; as well as by the sex, age, level of education, and degree of the directors’ autonomy in CSR-related decision-making and their motivations and perceived obstacles. This study on CSR is one of the first that has been applied in the hotel industry of the Colombian Caribbean and the results have important theoretical and practical implications to academia and the hospitality industry. Businessmen have valuable information to improve the levels of CSR in their companies and therefore contribute to a more responsible and sustainable tourism development in the Colombian Caribbean. Future research should include other variables like the type of corporate governance and the risk appetite of the decision-making body of the hotel and the social responsibility of all the stakeholders implicated in the destination.

The study seeks to analyse the interaction of foreign direct investment, emigration, and immigration before and after the great economic recession. Research Design & Methods: We used the Linear Mixed Model (LMM) to analyse interaction of foreign direct investment (FDI), emigration, and immigration for 112 countries with which Spain has closely interconnected migratory and investment chains, and we focused on the analysis of both the pre-crisis 1998-2007 and post-crisis 2008-2016 periods. Findings: The results show that the higher number of immigrants in Spain is related to an overall higher Spanish FDI flows toward the immigrants' origin countries. This relation between migration and FDI might be sustained in the long run as opposed to what was often raised in classical approaches. In fact, migration and FDI act like two sides of the same coin. Implications & Recommendations: Based on our results, we propose more proactive migration policies that support integration in host countries, migrants' return to home countries, and also trade agreements as an instrument that endorses selective FDI flow to more productive and critical sectors in home countries. Moreover, our results show that lower FDI is usually associated with a higher volume of emigration from Spain. Contribution & Value Added: In a sense, FDI and migration may be considered a risk aversion strategy.

Unexpected exogenous shocks, such as economic crises, pandemics, or armed/geopolitical conflicts, recurrently disrupt the global economy and alter the environment in which international firms operate, increasing perceptions of risk and uncertainty. However, international business (IB) has traditionally focused on stable, average conditions, a tendency we term “normal-times myopia”. This raises questions about the robustness and applicability of IB’s core theoretical foundations. This study reviews how major crises have shaped IB research from 2008 to 2025. This period is marked by the global financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Ukraine-Russia conflict. A central gap revealed by the extant literature is the lack of an integrative framework to measure, compare, and classify crises, and to examine their interaction with organizational and firm-level factors. This review identifies key research streams, highlights underexplored areas, outlines conceptual and methodological shortcomings and proposes several future research opportunities. Notably, our findings show that research on firm resilience and incorporation of “time” in IB is still in its early stages, underscoring the need for deeper theoretical integration and more systematic empirical investigation. The findings provide relevant insights for firm managers and policymakers seeking to pre-emptively prepare for future crises, as well as for the scholars, setting pathways for integrating exogenous disruptions into IB theorizing.