Dear all
In the run-up to EIBA in Porto next month, Emerald is delighted to announce the publication of volume 5 of Progress in International Business Research. This volume is edited by José Pla Barber and Joaquin Alegre. Further details and a table of contents follow.
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Dr Martyn Lawrence
Senior Publisher – International Business and Marketing
Reshaping the Boundaries of the Firm in an Era of Global Interdependence
Progress in International Business Research, Volume 5
Series Editor: European International Business Academy (EIBA)
Volume Editors: José Pla Barber and Joaquin Alegre
ISBN: 9780857240873
Synopsis
Globalisation is forcing companies to reshape their boundaries and causing business leaders to rethink corporate strategies within the firm. It is creating the basis for new ways of doing international business. The effects of this global interdependence are also being felt at the more aggregate levels of industries, financial markets and countries economies. The evolution of these trends has rendered obsolete some of the basic understandings of IB theory and practice, including traditional notions regarding the nature of the boundaries of the firm and even the definition of the multinational enterprise itself. This volume of Progress in International Business Research includes a selection of 13 papers from the 35th European International Business Academy Annual Conference, which was held in Valencia (Spain) from the 13th to the 15th of December 2009. This volume organizes in three parts a number of contributions to shed further light on these issues. Part I focuses on the boundaries of the firm and points at issues such as offshoring, cooperation and internationalization. Part II examines the phenomenon of networks within the context of MNCs. Finally, Part III deals with the role of knowledge and innovation in international high-tech environments.
Table of Contents
Introduction
José Pla-Barber, Joaquín Alegre
Abstract
Part I: The Boundaries of the Firm: Offshoring, Cooperation and Internationalization
The globalization of high-value activities: Why do firms offshore advanced tasks?
Peter D. Ørberg Jensen, Torben Pedersen
Abstract
Reshaping the boundaries of the firm: global value chains and lead firm strategies
Lorenzo Gui
Abstract
Comparative evolution of Japanese–European joint ventures in Japan and Europe
Shinichi Ishii, Jean-François Hennart
Abstract
New models of internationalization in small traditional manufacturing firms
Cristina Villar, Esmeralda Linares-Navarro, David Toral
Abstract
The influence of environmental international diversification on the proactive environmental strategy of small and medium enterprises
Javier Aguilera-Caracuel, Juan Alberto Aragón-Correa, Nuria Esther Hurtado-Torres
Abstract
Part II: Networks and MNCs
Networks in internationalisation
Martin Johanson, Pao T. Kao
Abstract
Limitations of the network organization in MNCs
Joachim Wolf, William G. Egelhoff
Abstract
Subsidiary contribution to firm-level competitive advantage – disentangling the effects of MNC external embeddedness
Phillip C. Nell, Ulf Andersson, Bodo B. Schlegelmilch
Abstract
Influence of subsidiary business networks on the performance of inter-subsidiary innovation transfer in MNCs
Stephie Hsin-Ju Tsai, Mo
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Part III: Knowledge and Innovation in International High-Tech Environments
The role of globally dispersed knowledge in explaining performance outcomes
Mario I. Kafouros, Peter J. Buckley, Jeremy Clegg (pp. 223 - 245)
Article type: Chapter Item
Abstract
Cooperation and innovation in the internationalisation of knowledge-intensive business services
Alicia Rodríguez, María Jesús Nieto (pp. 247 - 270)
Article type: Chapter Item
Abstract
Entrepreneurial orientation and international performance: A contingent approach
Olli Kuivalainen, Sanna Sundqvist, John W. Cadogan
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Technological resources, external research partners and export performance: A study of Italian high-tech SMEs
Alfredo D'Angelo (pp. 299 - 326)
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