International business
Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

critical perspectives on business and management Series

Coordinator: Rugman Alan M.

Language: English

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The exceptional growth in the level of international business has been one of the most dramatic features of the last fifty years, in the early twenty-first century virtually all business transactions involve transnationals at some point in the value chain.
This comprehensive four volume set includes all major contributions to the field of international business. The articles collected include pioneering works by Vernon, Hymer, Dunning, Casson, Caves and Rugman that developed the early theory of the multinational enterprise, alongside more recent work by Ghoshal, Westney, Kogut, Zaheer and Birkinshaw on international management issues of organization processes and structures. The set also includes key writings in the areas of international political economy and on regional and national issues.
The set includes a new introduction by the editor and a thorough index, making it an invaluable reference tool for both academics and practitioners in the field.

Volume I: Theory of the Multinational Enterprise

A. Early Theories

1. R. Vernon International Investment and International Trade in the Product Cycle Quarterly Journal of Economics [1966]

2. R. E. Caves Industrial Corporations: the Industrial Economic of Foreign Direct Investment Economica [1971]

3. J. Johansson and J. E. Vahlne The Internationalization Process of the Firm Journal of International Business Studies [1977]

4. Alan M. Rugman Motives for Foreign Investment: the Market Imperfections and Risk Diversifications Hypotheses Journal of World Trade Law [1975]

B. Internalization Theories

5. Alan M. Rugman Internalization as a General Theory of FDI' Weltwirtschaftliches Archive [1980]

6. A. Calvet A Synthesis of Foreign Direct-Investment Theories and Theories of the Multinational-Firm Journal of International Business Studies [1981]

7. P. J. Buckley and M. Casson The Optimal Timing of a Foreign Direct Investment Economic Journal [1981]

8. J. H. Dunning and Alan M. Rugman The Influence of Hymer's Dissertation on the Theory of Foreign-Direct Investment American Economic Review [1985]

9. J. F. Hennart What is Internalization? Weltwirtschaftliches Archive [1986]

10. D. J. Teece Transaction Cost Economics and the Multinational Enterprise Journal of Economic Behavior Organization [1986]

11. Alan M. Rugman Multinationals and Trade in Services: a Transaction Cost Approach Weltwirtschaftliches Archive [1987]

12. P. J. Buckley The Limits of Explanation: Testing the Internalization Theory of the Multinational Enterprise Journal of International Business Studies [1988]

C. The Eclectic Approach

13. J. H. Dunning Towards an Eclectic Theory of International Production, Some Empirical Tests Journal of International Business Studies [1980]

14. J. H. Dunning The Eclectic Paradigm of International Production Journal of International Business Studies [1988]

15. J. H. Dunning Reappraising the Eclectic Paradigm in the Age of Alliance Capitalism Journal of International Business Studies [1995]

16. T. L. Brewer Government Policies, Market Imperfections, and Foreign Direct Investment Journal of International Business Studies [1993]

D. Integrative Theories

17. Alan M. Rugman Forty Years of the Theory of the Transnational Corporation Transnational Corporations [1999]

18. J. R. Markusen The Boundaries of Multinational Firms and the Theory of International Trade Journal of Economic Perspectives [1995]

19. S. Ghoshal and P. Moran Bad for Practice: a Critique of Transaction Cost Theory Academy of Management Review [1996]

20. B. Kogut and U. Zander Knowledge of the Firm and the Evolutionary Theory of the Multinational Enterprise Journal of International Business Studies [1993]

Volume II: Joint Ventures and Modes of Entry

A. Joint Ventures

21. P. W. Beamish and J .C. Banks Equity Joint Ventures and the Theory of the Multinational Enterprise Journal of...