Authors: Peter Buckley, Various
ISBN-13: 9781403911247, ISBN-10: 140391124X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Peter Buckley is Professor of International Business, University of Leeds.
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.
1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | Visions of international business | 8 |
3 | Technological determinism, globalization and the multinational firm | 38 |
4 | Of beauty finding the relevant beast : the field of international business and the dialogue of fact and theory | 57 |
5 | Defining international business through its research | 68 |
6 | The institutional environment for international business | 85 |
7 | Regional multinationals : the new research agenda | 110 |
8 | What is international business? : an economic historian's view | 133 |
9 | What is international business? : a sociologist's view | 153 |
10 | Epilogue : international business as an evolving body of knowledge | 168 |