Contemporary Issues in International Business

Chapter 1. No Longer at Ease in the Old Dispensatation: Reappraising the Role of International Business in the World Economy; Davide Castellani, Rajneesh Narula, Quyen T. K. Nguyen, Irina Surdu and James T. Walker.- Part I. Institutions and International Business Strategy.- Chapter 2. Multinationals, Corporate Social Responsibility and Regional Change in Transition Economies; Javier Revilla Diez and Jöran Wrana.- Chapter 3. International Business and Corporate Wrongdoing: A Review and Research Agenda; Federica Nieri and Elisa Giuliani.- Chapter 4. The Internationalisation of Ventures: The Roles of a Nation’s Institutions and the Venture’s Value Orientation; Jie Chen, Kaisu Puumalainen and Sami Saarenketo.- Part II. Institutions, Emerging Markets and Economic Performance.- Chapter 5. Global Security Risks, Emerging Markets and Firm Responses: Assessing the Impact of Terrorism; Luis Alfonso Dau, Elizabeth M. Moore and Max Abrahms.- Chapter 6. Institutions, Economic Growth and International Competitiveness: A Regional Study; Roseline Wanjiru and Karla Prime.- Chapter 7. The Complementarity of Foreign and Domestic Investment by Emerging Market Multinationals; Pavida Pananond and Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra.- Part III. HQ-Subsidiaries Relations.- Chapter 8. The Dynamics of Differentiation: The Resource-Bases of Development and the Roles of MNE Subsidiaries; Robert Pearce.- Chapter 9. Unfolding the Intra-organisational Perception Gap in Decision Making; Shasha Zhao, Marina Papanastassiou, Yiannis Bassiakos, Evis Sinani and Robert Pearce.- Chapter 10. Strategy Creativity in Multinational Subsidiaries; Dónal O'Brien, Pamela Sharkey Scott and Ulf Andersson.- Chapter 11. Subsidiary Combinative Capability for Knowledge Creation as a Coevolutionary Development Process; Johanna Clancy, Paul Ryan, Ulf Andersson and Majella Giblin.- Part IV: Location Decisions and MNEs Performance.- Chapter 12. Establishing how MNCs are Defined: A Response to the Regional/Global Debate; Louis Brennan, Lisa Spencer and Jim Stewart.- Chapter 13. Outward FDI From South Korea: The Relationship Between National Investment Position And Location Choice; Jae-Yeon Kim, Nigel Driffield and Jim Love.- Chapter 14. Does It Evidence From Industrial District Firms; Marco Bettiol, Chiara Burlina, Maria Chiarvesio and Eleonora Di Maria.- Chapter 15. Firm Diversification and Financial Performance: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms Worldwide; Jinlong Gu, Yong Yang and Roger Strange.