Resources, Efficiency and Globalization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Resources, Efficiency, and Globalization: International Business in the Modern Era

   1. Resources, Efficiency, and Globalization: International Business in the Modern Era

      • Pavlos Dimitratos, Marian V. Jones

      Pages 1-9

3. MNE Strategies, Governance, and Efficiency

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Which Comes First: Domestic or Foreign Subsidiaries? Analysis of Global Integration and Local Responsiveness among Japanese Service Companies

      • Kiyohiko Ito, Elizabeth L. Rose, Tohyun Kim

      Pages 13-26

   3. The Role of Virtual Integration, Commitment, and Knowledge-Sharing in Improving International Supplier Responsiveness

      • Ruey-Jer Bryan Jean, Rudolf R. Sinkovics

      Pages 27-43

4. MNE Location and Human Resources

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. The Importance of Location: Does Outward FDI lead to Unemployment?

      • Yama Temouri, Nigel L. Driffield, Dolores Añón Higón

      Pages 47-62

   3. Agglomeration and Flows of Inward and Outward Direct Investment: An Analysis of Financial Services in the United Kingdom

      • Gary A. S. Cook, Naresh R. Pandit

      Pages 63-83

   4. Resources of Multinational Enterprises Used for Corporate Political Activities in the European Union

      • Sigrun M. Wagner

      Pages 84-113

   5. Career Orientations of the 21st-Century Knowledge Professionals

      • Dimitris Manolopoulos, Pavlos Dimitratos

      Pages 114-130

5. Subsidiaries and Resource Transfer

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Experience and Performance in Interunit Knowledge Transfer

      • Ulf Andersson, Magnus Persson

      Pages 133-155

   3. Embedded Subsidiaries and the Involvement of Headquarters in Innovation Transfer Processes

      • Henrik Dellestrand

      Pages 156-177

6. Internationalized SMEs, Strategies, and Efficiency

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. Hybrid Competitive Strategies for Achieving Superior Performance During Global Expansion: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Originating in SMOPECs

      • Mika Gabrielsson, Tomi Seppälä, Peter Gabrielsson

      Pages 181-192

   3. Standardization versus Adaptation of the Marketing Mix Strategy in SME Exports

      • Jorma Larimo, Minnie Kontkanen

      Pages 193-211

   4. Knowledge Management and Growth Strategies: Evidence from Chinese Knowledge-Intensive New Ventures

      • Huan Zou, Pervez Ghauri

      Pages 212-232

   5. A Conceptualization of e-Risk Perceptions and the Offline-Online Risk Trade-Off for Small Firm Internationalization

      • Noemi Pezderka, Rudolf R. Sinkovics

      Pages 233-246

7. Internationalized SMEs, Resources, and Entrepreneurship

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247

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   2. Resources and Performance in Foreign Markets: The Case of High-Technology SMEs in Portugal

      • Luis Bernardino, Marian V. Jones, Anna Morgan-Thomas

      Pages 249-267

International business for the modern firm has to compromise the need to use limited resources and achieve efficiency in the global marketplace. This book examines these issues from the viewpoint of the internationalized SME, the big multinational and the local subsidiary drawing on research conducted in different countries.

• entrepreneur
• entrepreneurship
• European Union (EU)
• globalization
• growth
• innovation
• International Business
• International Entrepreneurship
• Internationalisation
• internationalization
• Investment
• knowledge management
• management
• marketing
• unemployment

• Athens University of Economics and Business, UK

  Pavlos Dimitratos

• University of Glasgow, UK

  Marian V. Jones

DR PAVLOS DIMITRATOS Assistant Professor, Athens University of Economics& Business, Greece.

DR MARIAN P. JONES Professor, University of Glasgow, UK.

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