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Managerial Issues in International Business

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Felicia M. Fai

    1. School of Management, University of Bath, UK

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  2. Eleanor J. Morgan

    1. School of Management, University of Bath, UK

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Part of the book series: The Academy of International Business (AIB)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Management, University of Bath, UK

    Felicia M. Fai, Eleanor J. Morgan

About the editors

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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