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Book SynopsisCross-border flows of goods, services, capital, knowledge, and ideas have substantially increased. This book focuses on how the interface between firm-specific advantages, liability of foreignness, and location-specific advantages are spelled out in the more global world.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Editors' Biography. Editors' introduction. Introduction to Part I: Booz & Co./Strategy + Business Eminent Scholar in International Management 2010. The Transnational Transition and the Multinational Firm. Connecting the Plots: The Contributions of Stephen J. Kobrin to International Management Research. Governance in a Transnational Era: Stephen J. Kobrin and the Post-Westphalian Reality. Introduction to Part II: Dynamics of Globalization: Location-Specific Advantages or Liabilities of Foreignness?. The Home-Based Advantages and a Hierarchy of Location Resources: Foreign and Local Firms Dependency on Location Resources. The Benefits of Hierarchy? – Exploring the Effects of Regional Headquarters in Multinational Corporations. Overcoming Liabilities of Foreignness by Modes of Structural Coordination: Regional Headquarters and their Role in TNCs. Moving Abroad: Factors that Motivate Foreign Location of Headquarter Activities. Selecting State or Private Joint Venture Partners in Emerging Markets: Impact of Liability of Foreignness and Rule of Law. Liability of Foreignness and Location-Specific Advantages: Time, Space and Relative Advantage. Liability of Foreignness and Internationalisation of Emerging Market Firms. Evolution of Firm- and Country-Specific Advantages and Disadvantages in the Process of Chinese Firm Internationalization. From Stages to Phases, A Theory of Small Developing Country Internationalization. What Lies Beneath the Internationalization of Firms in a Regional Innovation System?. Location Determinants of FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Empirical Analysis. International Entrepreneurship at the Foreign Market Level: Towards a Network Perspective. The Importance of Internal and External Knowledge Sourcing and Firm Performance: A Latent Class Estimation. A Knowledge System Approach to the Multinational Company: Conceptual Grounding and Implications for Research. Author biographies. Dynamics of Globalization: Location-specific Advantages or Liability of Foreignness?. Advances in international Management. Advances in Interantional Management. Copyright page. Dedication.
