The global factory : networked multinational enterprises in the modern global economy This book brings together the key works on the global factory a unique approach to the modern global economy that focuses on the orchestrating role of key multinational firms that control an integrated international network of independent firms. This analysis is conducted at global system level at the level of global value chains and for individual firms. These three levels represent consistent nested approaches to the analysis of pressing issues of the modern international economy. The Global Factory examines the internalisation theory of the multinational enterprise as it applies to global interfirm networks and pays particular attention to multinational firms from emerging countries. It examines the governance and performance of global factories their internationalisation and knowledge management strategies and the potential for multinational firms to address societal failures. The role of technology the use of tax havens by Chinese multinationals and the division of entrepreneurial labour between global factories and smaller local firms are all explored as fascinating aspects of the overarching theory. This is an essential point of reference on Buckleys work on the global factory for academics and students of business as well as managers of multinational firms and public policy makers Contents: Foreword Paul Beamish Introduction Peter J. Buckley Part I A personal perspective 1.The applied economics of (international) business: a personal perspective (International Journal of the Economics of Business 21 (1) 3 6) Part II The theory of international business 2.Forty years of internalisation theory and the multinational enterprise (Multinational Business Review Special Issue: Advances in IB Theory 22 (3) 227 45) 3. Peter J. Buckley and Shameen Prashantham (2016) Global interfirm networks: the division of entrepreneurial labor between MNEs and SMEs (Academy of Management Perspectives: Symposium 30 (1) February 40 58) 4. Peter J. Buckley and Jean J. Boddewyn (2015) The internalization of societal failures by multinational enterprises (Multinational Business Review 23 (3) 170 87) 5. Peter J. Buckley Adam Cross and Claudio De Mattos (2015) The principle of congruity in the analysis of international business cooperation (International Business Review 24 (6) December 1048 60) 6.Adam Smiths Theory of knowledge and international business theory and practice (Journal of International Business Studies 45 (1) January 102 9) 7. Historical research approaches to the analysis of internationalisation (Management International Review Focused Issue: About Time: Putting Process Back into Firm Internationalization Research 56 (6) December 879 900) 8. Peter J. Buckley Malcolm Chapman Jeremy Clegg and Hanna Gajewska De Mattos (2014) A linguistic and philosophical analysis of emic and etic and their use in international business research (Management International Review 54 (3) June 307 24) Part III Emerging market multinational enterprises 9. Niron Hashai and Peter J. Buckley (2014) Is competitive advantage a necessary condition for the emergence of the multinational enterprise (Global Strategy Journal 4 (1) February 35 48) 10. Peter J. Buckley and Niron Hashai (2014) The role of technological catch up and domestic market growth in the genesis of emerging country based multinationals (Research Policy 43 (2) March 423 37) 11. Peter J. Buckley Dylan Sutherland Hinrich Voss and Ahmad El Gohari (2015) The economic geography of offshore incorporation in tax havens and offshore financial centres: the case of Chinese MNEs (Journal of Economic Geography 15 (1) January 103 28) 12. Peter J. Buckley Stefano Elia and Mario Kafouros (2014) Acquisitions by emerging market multinationals: implications for firm performance (Journal of World Business 49 (4) October 611 32) 13. Peter J. Buckley Surender Munjal Peter Enderwick and Nicolas Forsans (2016) Do foreign resources assist or impede internationalisation evidence from internationalisation of Indian multinational enterprises (International Business Review 25 (1A) February 130 40) 14. Peter J. Buckley Surender Munjal Peter Enderwick and Nicolas Forsans (2016) Cross border acquisitions by Indian multinationals: asset exploitation or asset augmentation (International Business Review 25 (4) August 986 96) Part IV The global factory 15. Peter J. Buckley and Roger Strange (2015) The governance of the global factory: location and control of world economic activity (Academy of Management Perspectives 29 (2) May 237 49) 16. Ulf Andersson Peter J. Buckley and Henrik Dellestrand (2015) In the right place at the right time!: the influence of knowledge governance tools on knowledge transfer and utilization in MNEs (Global Strategy Journal 5 (1) February 27 47) 17. Niron Hashai Mario Kafouros and Peter J. Buckley (2015) The performance implications of speed regularity and duration in alliance portfolio expansion (Journal of Management 1 25) Index.