The Changing Geography of International Business [electronic resource] /
Cook, Gary.author.
Johns, Jennifer.author.
Presents papers which grapple with some of the most important developments and challenges in International Business, both for the firms who must fashion strategy within a rapidly changing world economic order and researchers who seek to explain the nature of these shifts and how firms respond.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: The Changing Geography of International Business; 1 Flatness: The Global Disaggregation of Value Creation; Part I: Institutional Perspectives on International Business; 2 Outward Foreign Direct Investment and the Adaptive Efficiency of the German Institutional System; 3 The Impact of Institutions on Economic Growth in Central and Eastern Europe; 4 Why Do MNEs Engage in MNE-Government Relations? Empirical Evidence from the European Union and the Automotive Industry
Part II: International Business Activities Across Different Spatial Scales5 Country Linkages and Firm Internationalization: Indian MNEs within Economic-Political Alliances of Nations; 6 A Critical Review of Hidden Champions and Emerging Research Findings on Their International Strategies and Orientations; 7 The Role of Language on Affiliates' Competence Creation: Evidence from the MNE Linkage Across 45 Countries; 8 Reconceptualizing Cross-Border Knowledge Acquisition: An Empirical Investigation into Antecedents; Part III: Placing Multinational Enterprise Activities
9 Service Sector Clustering and Multinational Enterprise: Evidence from UK Film and Television10 Redundancies in External Relationships of Multinational Corporations - A Firm-Level Conceptual Model; 11 Examining Strategy Diversity and Interdependence in the MNC's Subsidiaries and Their Functional Activities; 12 Exploring Foreign Direct Investment and Technology and Knowledge Transfer Issues in Africa; 13 New Venture Internationalization and the Cluster Life Cycle: Insights from Ireland's Indigenous Software Industry; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Presents papers which grapple with some of the most important developments and challenges in International Business, both for the firms who must fashion strategy within a rapidly changing world economic order and researchers who seek to explain the nature of these shifts and how firms respond.
Leadership.
International business enterprises.
Globalization.
Markets.
Macroeconomics.
Personnel management.
International economics.
Business Strategy/Leadership.
International Business.
Emerging Markets/Globalization.
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.
Human Resource Management.
International Economics.