Ebook: The challenge of international business
- Year: 2004
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- City: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York
- Language: English
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This book poses a challenge to those concerned with international business - "What are the key issues for action and analysis?" It answers this question by examining the new strategies of multinational enterprises in the globalising world economy, paying particular attention to: international joint ventures; the impact of new technologies, knowledge management, transfer pricing, the rise of China and the impact of Read more...
Content: Introduction --
Part I: The Challenge --
Is the IB Research Agenda Running out of Steam? --
Part II: The Response --
Strategic Complexity in International Business --
Internationalisation, Real Options, Knowledge Management and the Uppala Approach --
Globalisation and the End of Competition --
Trust in International Joint Ventures --
The Challenges of the New Economics for Multinational Firms: Lessons for South-east Asia --
Part III: Knowledge Management in Multinational Firms --
Process and Structure in Knowledge Management Practices of British and US Multinational Enterprises --
Governing Knowledge Sharing in Multinational Enterprises --
Part IV: Empirics --
The Evolution of FDI in the United States in the Context of Trade Liberalisation and Regionalisation --
The Impact of Inward FDI on the Performance of Chinese Manufacturing Firms --
FDI, Regional Difference and Economic Growth: Panel Data Evidence from China --
Incentives to Transfer Profits: A Japanese Perspective --
A Survey-based Investigation of the Determinants of FDI in Portugal.
Abstract: This book poses a challenge to those concerned with international business - "What are the key issues for action and analysis?" It answers this question by examining the new strategies of multinational enterprises in the globalising world economy, paying particular attention to: international joint ventures; the impact of new technologies, knowledge management, transfer pricing, the rise of China and the impact of trade blocs