International Business Organization Subsidiary Management, Entry Strategies and Emerging Markets,9780312223717

International Business Organization Subsidiary Management, Entry Strategies and Emerging Markets

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ISBN13: 9780312223717
ISBN10: 0312223714
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-09-11
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This volume advances understanding of the organization of international business. At a time when both firms and governments are responding to rapid changes in the modern world economy, the international contributors to the book provide a much-needed focus on the organizational issues confronting international firms in the global business environment.

Author Biography

Fred Burton is Senior Lecturer at Manchester School of Management, UMIST, UK.

Malcolm Chapman is Lecturer and Adam Cross is Senior Lecturer, both in the Centre for International Business at Leeds University Business School.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
vii(1)
List of Tables
viii(1)
Preface and Acknowledgements x(1)
List of Contributors xi(2)
List of Abbreviations xiii
1 Introduction: International Business Organization
1(4)
Fred Burton
Malcolm Chapman
Adam Cross
2 Some Paradoxes of the Emerging Global Economy: The Multinational Solution
5(20)
John H. Dunning
PART ONE SUBSIDIARY MANAGEMENT 25(90)
Introduction 25(4)
Fred Burton
3 US MNC Subsidiaries in the UK: Characteristics and Strategic Role
29(18)
James H. Taggart
4 Host-Country Technological and Scientific Collaborations of MNE Subsidiaries: Evidence from Operations in Europe
47(20)
Marina Papanastassiou
Robert Pearce
5 An Evolutionary Analysis of Subsidiary Innovation and 'Reverse' Transfer in Multinational Companies
67(16)
Mo Yamin
6 On the Duration Dependence of MNE Investment
83(14)
Ram Mudambi
7 Transfer of HRM Practices across Cultures: An American Company in Scotland
97(18)
Monir Tayeb
PART TWO ENTRY STRATEGIES 115(100)
Introduction 115(4)
Adam Cross
8 Bounded Rationality, Meta-Rationality and the Theory of International Business
119(22)
Mark Casson
Nigel Wadeson
9 Internalization and Multinational Banking
141(15)
Peter Chi Ming Fu
10 Strategic Motives and Selection Criteria in International Joint Ventures: Perspectives of UK Firms and Foreign Firms
156(20)
Keith W. Glaister
11 A Qualitative Meta-Analysis of Performance Measures and Factors Affecting International Joint Venture Performance
176(18)
Margreet Boersma
Pervez Ghauri
12 A Proposed Solution to the Transnational Structure Paradox
194(21)
Keith D. Brouthers
Lance Eliot Brouthers
Wilfred Sleeman
PART THREE EMERGING MARKETS 215(92)
Introduction 215(5)
Malcolm Chapman
13 `Globalization' and the Convergence of National Business Systems
220(18)
Hugo Radice
14 Employee Ownership and Employment: The Case of Russian Privatized Firms
238(20)
George Sharpley
Trevor Buck
Igor Filatotchev
Mike Wright
15 Trust and Enforcement in Emerging Business Systems
258(20)
Chong Ju Choi
Soo Hee Lee
Carla Millar
16 Segmenting the Market: An `Old' Approach that Holds `New' Promise for the FDI-Attraction Process in Developing Countries
278(16)
Edward Coyne
17 Cultural Compatibility in International Acquisitions
294(13)
Richard Schoenberg
Bibliography 307(28)
Index 335

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