Managerial Issues in International Business

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Managerial Issues in International Business: Introduction

   • Felicia M. Fai, Eleanor J. Morgan

   Pages 1-8

3. The Relevance of Internationalization Theories: a Contingency Framework

   • Carl Arthur Solberg, Vidar Askeland

   Pages 9-32

4. Cheating and Incentive Schemes in International Joint Ventures

   • Ursula F. Ott

   Pages 33-49

5. Managerial Perspectives on Business Purpose: Values, National Values and Institutions

   • Simon Harris, Chris Carr

   Pages 50-66

6. A New Perspective on Parenting Spin-offs for Cluster Formation

   • Manuel P. Ferreira, William Hesterly, Ana Teresa Tavares

   Pages 67-84

7. Towards an Explanation of MNE FDI in the City of London Financial Services Cluster

   • Naresh R. Pandit, Gary A. S. Cook, Pervez N. Ghauri

   Pages 85-101

8. International Entrepreneurship and Managing Network Dynamics: SMEs in the UK Advertising Sector

   • Dev K. Boojihawon

   Pages 102-122

9. Cross-border Management Issues in International Law Firms

   • Susan Segal-Horn, Alison Dean

   Pages 123-140

10. The Performance Management—Training Interface in Australian Firms in China

    • Susan McGrath-Champ, Xiaohua Yang

    Pages 141-161

11. Country of Origin Effects on Knowledge Transfers from MNEs to their Chinese Suppliers: an Exploratory Investigation

    • Jing-Lin Duanmu

    Pages 162-179

12. Foreign Direct Investment Flows into an Integrating Europe: MNE Strategy and Location Decisions, 1981–2001

    • Dimitra Dimitropoulou, Robert Pearce

    Pages 180-194

13. New Directions in International Business

    • Simon Collinson, Peter Buckley, John Dunning, George Yip

    Pages 195-207

14. Back Matter

    Pages 208-215

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The 13th volume of the Academy of International Business series reflects the complex challenges managers face in today's global economy. A novel range of issues brings together two important contemporary themes in international business. The book includes thoughts from prominent academics on new directions for international business scholarship.

• China
• foreign direct investment
• Global economy
• International Business
• International Entrepreneurship
• internationalization
• management

• School of Management, University of Bath, UK

  Felicia M. Fai, Eleanor J. Morgan

FELICIA M. FAI is a Lecturer in International Business at the University of Bath's School of Management, UK. Her research interests include competence development, knowledge transfers and foreign direct investment behaviour. She has contributed to academic journals and conferences, writing on corporate technological diversification, the role of language in cross-border alliances, knowledge transfer in supply chains, and evidence of rising technological competencies in China.

ELEANOR J. MORGAN is Senior Lecturer in Business Economics at the University of Bath's School of Management, UK. Her current research has two main strands - competition policy, especially towards mergers, and innovation strategies of small EU firms in a regional context. She has published extensively in these and other areas, and is founder editor of the International Journal of the Economics of Business.

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