International Business: Adjusting to New Challenges and Opportunities

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction: Adjusting to New Challenges and Opportunities....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
The Importance of International Predisposition and Contact with the Foreign Market: Empirical Evidence from UK High Technology Small Firms....Pages 9-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Multinational Companies and Ethical Issues....Pages 27-30
Multinational Companies and Environmental Issues....Pages 31-36
Russian History and the ‘Americanization’ of Corporate Governance....Pages 37-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Globalization, Corporate Restructuring and Influences on the MNC Subsidiary....Pages 59-75
Product Mandate Subsidiaries and High Value-Added Scope in MNEs’ Operations in the UK: an EU-based Comparative Investigation....Pages 76-87
Knowledge Transfer Between Parent and Developing Country Subsidiaries: A Conceptual Framework....Pages 88-97
Autonomy and Procedural Justice: Validating and Extending the Framework....Pages 98-119
The Development of Pan-European Industrial Structures and the Strategic Development of Subsidiaries....Pages 120-131
Cluster Development Policy and New Forms of Public—Private Partnership....Pages 132-143
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Export Behaviour Research in the UK: A Review....Pages 147-165
Understanding International Strategy in the Professional Services Industry: The Case of the International Marketing Communications Sector ....Pages 166-180
Modelling the Export Marketing Strategy—Performance Relationship: A Replication....Pages 181-193
Does International Entry Mode Choice Influence Firm Performance?....Pages 194-204
International Price Competition on the Internet: A Clinical Study of the On-Line Book Industry....Pages 205-220
New Strategic Group Concepts in the Transition to a Changing Global Environment: A Dynamic Analysis of Strategic Group Behaviour in the World-Wide Spirits Industry ....Pages 221-233
Explaining Organizational Performance Through Psychic Distance....Pages 234-244
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Globalization and the Smaller Firm: Reconcilable Notions?....Pages 247-257
Multiple Sales Channel Strategies in the Export Marketing of Small and Medium-sized Design Companies....Pages 258-275
Back Matter....Pages 276-318