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Book Announcement – New Perspectives in International Business Research

New Perspectives in International Business Research (Progress in International Business Research, volume 3)

Edited by: Maryann P. Feldman and Grazia D. Santangelo
ISBN 13: 9781848552784
Published: October 2008
Price: £69.99

This volume of "Progress in International Business Research" proposes new perspectives in IB research by addressing a number of critical issues which criss-cross the fields of International Business and International Management. More specifically, the topics dealt with in the volume feature in four discreet sections. The contributions in the first part concern the management of cultural distance across countries. In the second part, internal and external solutions to corporate governance problems are proposed, making use of the concept of 'jurisdictional advantage'. The third part focuses on the genesis and development of international entrepreneurs. The last part of the volume discusses the nature and impact of technology and of international expansion.The volume intends to provide fresh new insights in the field of IB research, insights which will interest business and management scholars, senior executives and policy-makers, and all those interested in the relationship and combination of corporate competitive advantage with jurisdictional advantage.

Table of Contents

1. New Perspectives in IB Research: Culture, Governance, Entrepreneurship and International Expansion
Maryann P. Feldman, University of North Carolina,Grazia D. Santangelo, University of Catania

MANAGING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES ACROSS COUNTRIES

2. Headquarters-subsidiary relationships and the country-of-origin effect

Anne-Wil Harzing, University of Melbourne, Niels Noorderhaven, Tilburg University

3. An exploratory study of cultural differences and perceptions of relational risk

Susana Costa e Silva, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Luciara Nardon, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School

4. Drivers of Interpersonal and Inter-unit Trust in Multinational Corporations

Kristiina Mäkelä, Hanken Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration

Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen, Hanken Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration

Ingmar Björkman, Hanken, Hanken Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration

GOVERNANCE

5. Normative control in MNEs: A micro-political conflict perspective

Susanne Blazejewski, European University Viadrina

6. Exploring Antecedents of Relationship Commitment in an Import-Export Dyad

Diana Debora Welch. Bar-Ilan University, Abraham Carmeli. Bar-Ilan University

7. Constructing jurisdictional advantage

Maryann Feldman, University of North Carolina, Roger Martin, University of Toronto

THE GENESIS OF INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRENEURS

8. Comparative International Entrepreneurship: The Software Industry in the Indian Sub-Continent

Shameen Prashantham, University of Glasgow

Amer Qureshi, Q Consulting and Training

Stephen Young, University of Glasgow

9. Reinterpreting a ‘prime example’ of a born global: Cochlear’s International launch

Lisa Hewerdine, University of Adelaide

Catherine Welch, University of Sydney

10. Myths in Microfinance

Roy Mersland, University of Agder

Oystein Strom, Ostfold University College

TECHNOLOGY AND INERNATIONAL EXPANSION

11. R&D and foreign direct investment with asymmetries in knowledge transmission

Maria Luisa Petit, University of Rome "La Sapienza"

Francesca Sanna Randaccio, University of Rome "La Sapienza"

Roberta Sestini, University of Rome "La Sapienza"

12. FDI and Spillovers in the Swiss Manufacturing Industry: Interaction Effects between Spillover Mechanisms and Domestic Absorptive Capacities

Lamia Ben Hamida, University of Fribourg and World Trade Institute Berne

Philippe Gugler, University of Fribourg and World Trade Institute Berne

13. Market and Technology Access in European Firm Acquisitions: Beyond one size fits all

The Editors

Series Editor: The series is written in association with EIBA - The European International Business Academy

Maryann P. Feldman is the S.K. Heninger Professor of Public Policy, University of North Carolina

Grazia Santangelo is Professor in Economics at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Catania (Italy)

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