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Authors: Peter Buckley, Various
ISBN-13: 9781403911247, ISBN-10: 140391124X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Peter Buckley

Peter Buckley is Professor of International Business, University of Leeds.

Book Synopsis

What is international business? Is the international business research agenda running out of steam? These and other key questions are answered in this influential book which points to a definitive statement on International Business. Bringing together a variety of different perspectives, this book is a collection of the latest thinking from eminent scholars on the question of international business.

Table of Contents

1Introduction1
2Visions of international business8
3Technological determinism, globalization and the multinational firm38
4Of beauty finding the relevant beast : the field of international business and the dialogue of fact and theory57
5Defining international business through its research68
6The institutional environment for international business85
7Regional multinationals : the new research agenda110
8What is international business? : an economic historian's view133
9What is international business? : a sociologist's view153
10Epilogue : international business as an evolving body of knowledge168

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