Institutional Impacts on Firm Internationalization

Institutional Impacts on Firm Internationalization addresses various aspects of the investigated phenomenon, providing an insight in the role of the varieties of capitalism on the globalization of business activities worldwide.

Autorentext

Dr Svetla Trifonova Marinova, Associate Professor of International Business at Aalborg University, Denmark, has an MBA degree from Warwick University, UK, and a PhD degree from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She has taught on both sides of the Atlantic, conducted extensive research, co-authored seven books and published more than seventy papers in scholarly journals.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Convergence versus Divergence: Testing Varieties of Capitalism Perspective on the Globalization of Business Practices; Andrei Kuznetsov and Marcus Jacob 3. Institutional Determinants of Outward Foreign Direct Investment from Emerging Economies: A Home Country Perspective; Mohamed Amal and Bruno Thiago Tomio 4. Effects of Government Economic Policy on Outward Foreign Direct Investment: Experience from China and the EU1; Witold Wilinski and Xiaoxin Li 5. Foreign Direct Investment Growth in China: Implications for Politics, the Economy and Culture; Attila Yaprak and Yingtao Xiao 6. Should Governments Support Outward FDI?: The Case of Poland; Marian Gorynia, Jan Nowak, Piotr Trapczy?ski and Rados?aw Wolniak 7. Innovation in Emerging Economies: The Spillover Effects of Foreign Direct Investment and Institutions in Russia; Natalya Smith and Ekaterina Thomas 8. The Role of Home Governments in Outward Foreign Direct Investment; Svetla Marinova, John Child and Marin Marinov 9. Structural Model of Institutional Environment Influence on International Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies; Daria Volchek, Sami Saarenketo and Ari Jantunen 10. The Effects of Country and Industry Factors on the Competitive Advantage of European Construction Firms Operating in Russia; Andrei Panibratov 11. Understanding Failure in International Retailing: An Institutional Framework for Future Investigation; Alphonse Aklamanu 12. Key Determinants of Retail Internationalization: Do Institutions Matter?; Michael R. Czinkota, Svetla Marinova, A. Coskun Samli and Zhizhong Jiang 13. Firm Internationalisation and Institutions: The Case of Pharmaceutical Retailing; Anna Karhu