Innovations in International Business

A leading international business theorist and writer for more than 30 years Peter Buckley focuses in this volume on the development and modelling of the multinational enterprise (MNE) and its role in knowledge creation and dissemination as well as cultural distance in international business, particularly with respect to Asian business.

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MALCOLM CHAPMAN Senior Lecturer in International Business, University of Leeds, UK JEREMY CLEGG Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and International Business Management, University of Leeds, UK TIM DEVINNEY Professor of Strategy, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia HANNA GAJEWSKA-DE MATTOS Lecturer in Business Development in Emerging Markets, University of Leeds, UK KEITH GLAISTER Professor of International Strategic Management, Dean of the Management School, University of Sheffield, Uk NIRON HASHAIM Senior Lecturer, School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel MARIO KAFOUROS Professor of International Business and Innovation, Centre for International Business, University of Leeds, UK ELKO KLIJN Assistant Professor in Management and Organisation, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands JORDAN LOUVIERE Professor of Marketing, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia JOHN SHARP Professor of Management, Canterbury Business School, University of Kent, UK ROGER STRANGE Professor of International Business, School of Business, Management & Economics, University of Sussex, UK HUI TAN Reader in Strategy, School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK CHENGQI WANG Associate Professor and Reader in International Business, Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, UK

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List of Tables List of Figures Foreword: D.Lessard Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I: THEORY AND MODELLING THE MNE Business History and International Business; P.J.Buckley Internalisation Thinking from the Multinational Enterprise to the Global Factory; P.J.Buckley The Theory of International Business Pre-Hymer; P.J.Buckley The Governance of the Multinational Enterprise: Insights from Internalization Theory; P.J.Buckley & R.Strange Formalizing Internationalization in the Eclectic Paradigm; P.J.Buckley & N.Hashai The Impact of the Global Factory on Economic Development; P.J.Buckley PART II: KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION AND MANAGEMENT Under What Conditions do Firms Benefit from the Research Efforts of Other Organizations?; M.I.Kafouros & P.J.Buckley The Role of Internationalization in Explaining Innovation Performance'; M.I.Kafourosa , P.J.Buckley , J.A.Sharpb & C.Wang Knowledge Accession and Knowledge Acquisition in Strategic Alliances: The Impact of Supplementary and Complementary Dimensions; P.J.Buckley , K.W.Glaister , E.Klijn & H.Tan Do Managers Behave the Way Theory Suggests? A Choice Theoretic Examination of Foreign Direct Investment Location Decision Making; P.J.Buckley , T.M.Devinney & J.J.Louviere The Role of Headquarters in the Global Factory; P.J.Buckley PART III: CULTURAL DISTANCE AND ASIAN BUSINESS Close Neighbours and Distant Friends - Perceptions of Cultural Distance; M.Chapman , H.Gajewska-De Mattos , J.Clegg & P.J.Buckley Doing Business in Developing and Transitional Countries, an Empirical Example of the Dominant Logic and its Alternative; P.J.Buckley , M.Chapman , J.Clegg & H.Gajewska-De Mattos The Rise of the Japanese Multinational Enterprise: Then and Now; P.J.Buckley Japanese Multinational Enterprises in China: Successful Adaptation of Marketing Strategies; P.J.Buckley & S.A.Horn