Authors: Africa Arino (Editor), Pankaj Ghemawat (Editor), Joan E. Ricard (Editor), Joan Enric Ricart
ISBN-13: 9781403934727, ISBN-10: 140393472X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: December 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Africa Aribliogño is Associate Professor of General Management at IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain.
Pankaj Ghemawat is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration and Head of the Strategy Unit.
Joan Enric Ricart is Associate Dean for research and the doctoral program, and Chairman of the General Management department at IESE Business School, University of Navarra in Spain.
Everyday, more and more companies embark on international business. Through a collection of articles by leading scholars in International Business this book answers fundamental questions such as: How do companies create value through global strategy? What are the sources of value creation? How do companies organize themselves and manage the process of international expansion? How does location specificity matter in this process? Creating Value through Global Strategy will be of interest to academics and professionals in international business and management.
Foreword | ||
1 | Introduction : international strategy and location specificity | 1 |
2 | Introduction to part I | 21 |
3 | The process of international expansion in knowledge-intensive settings : research questions, theory and summary of findings | 26 |
4 | Multilatinas : emerging multinationals from Latin America | 43 |
5 | Corporate governance and globalization : toward an actor-centred institutional analysis | 55 |
6 | Introduction to part II | 71 |
7 | Firm-specific and non-firm-specific sources of advantage in international competition | 78 |
8 | Chilean foreign direct investment across Latin America : alliances and competitive advantage | 95 |
9 | International geography and history in host market competitiveness of foreign multinational enterprises : a research agenda | 109 |
10 | Introduction to part III | 125 |
11 | Dual paths to multinational subsidiary performance : networking to learning and autonomy to innovation | 130 |
12 | Decentralization of R&D and know-how flows through MNEs : some stylized facts and insights from theory | 145 |
13 | Multinational investment and organizational risk : a real options approach | 165 |
14 | Introduction to part IV | 181 |
15 | Globalizing professional services : are networked organizations an answer? | 185 |
16 | The impact of personal and organizational ties on strategic alliance characteristics and performance : a study of alliances in the USA, Israel and Taiwan | 201 |
17 | Introduction to part V | 217 |
18 | The roles of the corporate level in the internationalization process of the firm | 222 |
19 | 'Wireless apostles' and 'global emperors' : strategies for domination in a global arena | 238 |