International Business in a VUCA World : the Changing Role of States and Firms.

Preface: Peter Buckley --
A Tribute Introduction: Progress in International Business Research in and Increasingly VUCA World
 Rob van Tulder, Barbara Jankowska and Alain Verbeke  Chapter 1. The Role of International Business Theory in an Uncertain World
 Peter Buckley  Part I. International Business in a VUCA Environment  Chapter 2. The Impossibility of International Business
 Mark Casson  Chapter 3. The firms of our times: risk and uncertainty
 Peter W. Liesch and Lawrence S. Welch  Chapter 4. Can VUCA help us generate new theory within international business?
 L. Jeremy Clegg, Hinrich Voss and Liang Chen  Part II. New Perspectives on the Interplay between Firms and the Non-Market Chapter 5. Production Switching and Vulnerability to Protectionism
 Ari Van Assche and Byron Gangnes  Chapter 6. Institutional Schisms: Understanding the Role that Intergovernmental Organizations Have in Shaping Country Institutional Environments
 Kristin Brandl, Luis Dau and Elizabeth Moore  Chapter 7. The Future of Transatlanticism --
Effects of a Rise of US Import Tariffs on exports in the German Automotive Sector. A quantitative, data driven approach
 Moritz Kath and Natalia Ribberink  Chapter 8. Passive, aggressive or creative? Adjustment strategies of companies affected by sanctions
 Beata Stępień and Patrick Weber  Chapter 9. How Economic Freedom Affects Transaction Costs
 Bruno Buscariolli Pereira and Jorge Manoel Teixeira Carneir  Part III. New Governance Challenges in International Business Chapter 10. Macroenvironmental dynamism and firm risk management --
an exploratory investigation
 Florian Klein, Jonas Puck and Martin Weiss  Chapter 11. Top Management Team Influence on Firms\' Internationalization Complexity
 Stefano Elia, Peder Greve, Tommaso Vallone, Daniele Marinelli and Lisa Longoni  Chapter 12. What happens after offshoring? A comprehensive framework
 Marco Bettiol, Maria Chiarvesio, Eleonora Di Maria, Cristina Di Stefano and Luciano Fratocchi  Chapter 13. The role of institutional context in backshoring decisions
 Lise Lillebrygfjeld Halse, Bella Belerivana Nujen and Hans Solli-Sæther  Chapter 14. Multinationals and the European poor. Reverse knowledge transfer or ad hoc solutions?
 Antonella Zucchella and Serena Malvestito  Part IV. New Contexts for Newly Internationalizing Firms Chapter 15. Born globals or born regionals? A study of 32 early internationalizing SMEs
 Sara Melén, Emilia Rovira Nordman and Daniel Tolstoy  Chapter 16. Facilitating International Venturing of Emerging Market Firms through Entrepreneurial Transformation: Contingent Role of Technological Environment
 Chen Han and Bo Bernhard Nielsen  Chapter 17. Uncertainty and decision-making in SME internationalization: the importance of control, prediction, and knowledge
 Luis Oliveira, Wensong Bai, Martin Johanson, Milena Ratajczak-Mrozek and Barbara Francioni  Chapter 18. The internationalization of early stage social enterprises
 Tiina Ritvala and Rilana Riikkinen   Part V. Contemporary Management Perspectives in IB Research Chapter 19. VUCA and the Future of the Global Mobile Telco Industry
 Angels Dasi, Frank Elter, Paul Gooderham and Torben Pedersen  Chapter 20. Managing ambidexterity using networking perspective --
added value or necessity? Empirical evidence from Poland
 Joanna Radomska, Przemysław Wołczek and Susana Costa e Silva  Chapter 21. Exploring the context-specific talent management practices and their link to firm\'s absorptive capacity in emerging markets: Brazil vs Russia
 Marina Latukha, Louisa Selivanovskikh and Maria Laura Maclennan  Chapter 22. Institutional effects on the ownership in cross-border acquisitions by African firms
 João Neves de Carvalho Santos, Manuel Portugal Ferreira and José Carlos Rodrigues  Chapter 23. When does adaptation to foreign markets matter? An institutional approach to the internationalization of post-transition economy firms
 Mariola Ciszewska-Mlinarič and Piotr Trąpczyński  Chapter 24. Outward foreign direct investment and multinationality of emerging multinationals
 Mohamed Amal and Huaru Kang.