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Book cover image of Creating Value Through International Strategy by Africa Arino

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)

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Author Biography: Africa Arino

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.

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword
1Introduction : international strategy and location specificity1
2Introduction to part I21
3The process of international expansion in knowledge-intensive settings : research questions, theory and summary of findings26
4Multilatinas : emerging multinationals from Latin America43
5Corporate governance and globalization : toward an actor-centred institutional analysis55
6Introduction to part II71
7Firm-specific and non-firm-specific sources of advantage in international competition78
8Chilean foreign direct investment across Latin America : alliances and competitive advantage95
9International geography and history in host market competitiveness of foreign multinational enterprises : a research agenda109
10Introduction to part III125
11Dual paths to multinational subsidiary performance : networking to learning and autonomy to innovation130
12Decentralization of R&D and know-how flows through MNEs : some stylized facts and insights from theory145
13Multinational investment and organizational risk : a real options approach165
14Introduction to part IV181
15Globalizing professional services : are networked organizations an answer?185
16The impact of personal and organizational ties on strategic alliance characteristics and performance : a study of alliances in the USA, Israel and Taiwan201
17Introduction to part V217
18The roles of the corporate level in the internationalization process of the firm222
19'Wireless apostles' and 'global emperors' : strategies for domination in a global arena238

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