Multinationals in A New Era International

This volume in the Academy of International Business series focuses on globalization and international business, and presents the work of leading international business scholars delivered at the 27th AIB conference. Contributions examine how the underlying characteristics of international business are changing. The book successfully brings together an integrated set of research concepts and results to present some contrasting views about the nature and effects of globalization as the multinational continues to develop in the 21st century.

James H. Taggart is Professor of International Business Strategy in the Department of Management Studies at the University of Glasgow. Maureen Berry and Michael McDermott are both Senior Lecturers in the Department of Marketing, University of Strathclyde.

List of Tables

vii

List of Figures

ix

Preface

x

Notes on the Contributors

xi

Introduction: Companies and Countries, Changes and Choices

1

(9)

James H. Taggart

Industrial Clusters and Small Firm Internationalisation (Best Paper)

10

(19)

Peter Brown

Jim Bell

PART ONE INTERNATIONALISATION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES

`Born' Exporting in Regional Clusters: Preliminary Empirical Evidence

29

(18)

Leonor Sopas

The Internationalisation of SMEs: Alternative Hypotheses and Empirical Survey

47

(14)

Antonella Zucchella

International Start-ups, a Paradigm Shift for the 21st Century: Two Illustrative Cases Spanning the Atlantic

61

(11)

Jeffrey E. Johnson

On the Resource-based, Integrative View of Small Firm Internationalisation: an Exploratory Study of Nigerian Firms

72

(16)

Kevin I.N. Ibeh

Market Space and the New Mechanism of Internationalisation: Some Preliminary Insights

88

(17)

Jurgen Kai-Uwe Brock

PART TWO MANAGING THE MULTINATIONAL

Is the Governance of Transnationals Really `Beyond the M-Form'? A Critical Review of Bartlett and Ghoshal's 'New Organisational Model'

105

(13)

Paul N. Gooderham

Svein Ulset

Multinational Strategies and Sustainable Industrial Transformation in CEE Transition Economies: the Role of Technology

118

(23)

Julia Manea

Robert Pearce

Modes of Integration and the Diffusion of Best Practice in the Multinational Enterprise

141

(12)

Martyn Wright

Paul Edwards

Global Operations Managed by Japanese and in Japanese

153

(16)

Hideki Yoshihara

PART THREE IMPLEMENTING INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY

A New View of the Advantage of Multinationality

169

(11)

Mo Yamin

Strategic Evolution of foreign-owned Subsidiaries in a Host Country: a Conceptual Framework

180

(14)

Reijo Luostarinen

Rebecca Marschan-Piekkari

Multinational Enterprises in Ireland: the Dynamics of Subsidiary Strategy

194

(13)

Ana Teresa Tavares

From Globalisation to Internationalisation to Americanisation: the Example of 'Little Americas' in the Hotel Sector

207

(19)

Dennis Nickson

Chris Warhurst

A Survey-based Investigation of the Determinants of FDI in Portugal

226

(33)

Peter J. Buckley

Francisco B. Castro

Bibliography

259

(23)

Index

282

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Multinationals in A New Era International Strategy and Management

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