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Business History and International Business are cognate subjects. There are few, if any, studies of international business that do not require a proper study of context. International business decision making must be made relevant by a considered evaluation of the circumstances surrounding that decision. This often means putting it into its historical context. The contributions that the study of international business can make to business history are the input of appropriate theory and appropriate research methods. The best international business theory can illuminate the seemingly disparate s

Introduction and Overview -- PART I: INTERNALISATION THEORY AND THE GLOBAL FACTORY -- 1. International Integration and Coordination in the Global Factory -- 2. Marketing and the Multinational: Extending Internalisation Theory, (co-author Mark Casson) -- 3. Risk and Uncertainty in Internationalisation and International Entrepreneurship Studies: Review and Conceptual Development (co-authors Peter W. Liesch and Lawrence S. Welch) -- 4. Organizing the Modern Firm in the Worldwide Market for Market Transactions (co-authors Peter W. Liesch, Bernard L. Simonin and Gary Knight) -- 5. Meta-analytic Research in International Business and International Management (co-authors Timothy M. Devinney and Ryan W. Tang) -- PART II: FDI FROM EMERGING COUNTRIES -- 6. FDI From Emerging to Advanced Countries: Some Insights on the Acquisition Strategies and on the Performance of Target Firms (co-authors Stefano Elia, and Mario Kafouros) -- 7. The Impact of Home Country Institutional Effects on the Internationalization Strategy of Chinese Firms (co-authors Hinrich Voss and Adam R Cross) -- 8. Host-home Country Linkages and Host-home Country Specific Advantages as Determinants of Foreign Acquisitions by Indian Firms (co-authors Nicolas Forsans and Surender Munjal) -- PART III: SPATIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF MNES -- 9. Combinations of Partners' Joint Venture Formation Motives (co- authors Elko Klijn, Jeffrey J. Reuer, Keith W. Glaister) -- 10. The Effects of Global Knowledge Reservoirs on the Productivity of Multinational Enterprise: The Role of International Depth and Breadth (co-authors Jeremy Clegg and Mario Kafouros) -- 11. Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in India: An Institutional Theory Approach (co-authors Adam Cross and Sierk Horn) -- 12. Realised Absorptive Capacity, Technology Acquisition and Performance in International Collaborative Formations: An Empirical Examination in the Korean Context (co-author Byung Il Park) -- 13. The Spatial Redistribution of Japanese Direct Investment in the United Kingdom between 1991 and 2010 (co-authors Adam Cross, Sierk Horn and John Stillwell) -- PART IV: POLICY ANALYSIS -- 14. Twenty Years of the World Investment Report: Retrospect and Prospects

"The Multinational Enterprise and the Emergence of the Global Factory" brings together research papers on three of the most important empirical and theoretical issues in the global economy. The first is the rise of the 'global factory', the dispersed network controlled by the multinational enterprise (MNE) consisting of a constellation of linked entities, orchestrated by the local firm. The second section of the book examines the growth of foreign direct investment (FDI) from emerging economies. These economies, particularly China and India, are a growing and significant source of FDI in the world economy, therefore deeming a thorough exploration. The third part looks at key recent developments in the theory of international business which are the institutional approach to FDI and the MNE, and the increasing integration of geographical and spatial concepts into international business theory. The fourth and final section ends the collection by examining UNCTAD's World Investment Report (WIR) over its first 20 years.

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Business history and international business / Peter J. Buckley -- Internalisation thinking : from the multinational enterprise to the global factory / Peter J. Buckley -- The theory of international business pre-Hymer / Peter J. Buckley -- The governance of the multinational enterprise : insights from internalization theory / Peter J. Buckley and Roger Strange -- Formalizing internationalization in the eclectic paradigm / Peter J. Buckley and Niron Hashai -- The impact of the global factory on economic development / Peter J. Buckley -- Under what conditions do firms benefit from the research efforts of other organizations? / Mario I. Kafouros and Peter J. Buckley -- The role of internationalization in explaining innovation performance / Mario I. Kafourosa, Peter J. Buckley, John A. Sharp and Chengqi Wang -- Knowledge accession and knowledge acquisition in strategic alliances : the impact of supplementary and complementary dimensions / Peter J. Buckley, Keith W. Glaister, Elko Klijn and Hui Tan -- Do managers behave the way theory suggests? : a choice theoretic examination of foreign direct investment location decision making / Peter J. Buckley,Timothy M. Devinney and Jordan J. Louviere -- The role of headquarters in the global factory / Peter J. Buckley -- Close neighbours and distant friends : perceptions of cultural distance / Malcolm Chapman, Hanna Gajewska-De Mattos, Jeremy Clegg and Peter J. Buckley -- Doing business in developing and transitional countries, an empirical example of the dominant logic and its alternative / Peter J. Buckley, Malcolm Chapman, Jeremy Clegg and Hanna Gajewska-De Mattos -- The rise of the Japanese multinational enterprise : then and now / Peter J. Buckley -- Japanese multinational enterprises in China : successful adaptation of marketing strategies / Peter J. Buckley and Sierk A. Horn

This text explores four key issues in the world economy: the changing context of international business, the continuing pace of economic integration, international joint ventures and knowledge management. Specifically it examines how each one affects the strategies of multinational enterprises