The Development of International Business

Robert Pearce

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Abstract: In this wide-ranging and groundbreaking new book, Robert Pearce provides an analytically-informed basis for understanding the modern multinational enterprise. It does this by tracing the development over the past half-century of two parallel strands of analysis in International Business; designated as the ‘theoretical’ and the ‘practical’. The book shows how the practical restructuring of the MNE as an organisational form has responded to changes in the wider global economy and how this evolution has interfaced with the enriching of the relevant theorising. By tracing the persisting dynamics of the MNEs’ structure and strategic positioning it demonstrates how what it is now can be used as a template for understanding and organising its further evolution as additional changes condition its environment.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
ISBN: 9781786439970
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Multinationals: in theory and practice , pp 1-12

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Ch 2 From FDI to the MNE: Hymer and the roots of ownership advantage , pp 13-25

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Ch 3 From innovation to internationalisation: the product cycle model , pp 26-35

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Ch 4 From multi-domestic hierarchy to network hierarchy , pp 36-45

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Ch 5 Trade and FDI revisited: the role of location , pp 46-56

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Ch 6 Internalisation: ownership advantage as an intermediate good , pp 57-66

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Ch 7 The knowledge-seeking transition: decentralising innovation and R&D , pp 67-102

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Ch 8 Multinationals from emerging economies: a new challenge of practice to theory , pp 103-118

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Ch 9 Evaluating the multinational: a coda , pp 119-141

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