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First edition. |
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1 online resource (534 pages). |
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| Series |
Progress in International Business Research ; volume 14
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Progress in international business research ; v. 14.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Dedicated to Professor Peter Buckley, OBE, this volume of Progress in International Business Research explores the new challenges for MNEs, SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) and INVs (International New Ventures) emerging from this changing and increasingly unpredictable political, economic, social and technological VUCA world. |
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Preface: Peter Buckley -- A Tribute Introduction: Progress in International Business Research in and Increasingly VUCA World; Rob van Tulder, Barbara Jankowska and Alain Verbeke Chapter 1. The Role of International Business Theory in an Uncertain World; Peter Buckley Part I. International Business in a VUCA Environment Chapter 2. The Impossibility of International Business; Mark Casson Chapter 3. The firms of our times: risk and uncertainty; Peter W. Liesch and Lawrence S. Welch Chapter 4. Can VUCA help us generate new theory within international business?; L. Jeremy Clegg, Hinrich Voss and Liang Chen Part II. New Perspectives on the Interplay between Firms and the Non-Market Chapter 5. Production Switching and Vulnerability to Protectionism; Ari Van Assche and Byron Gangnes Chapter 6. Institutional Schisms: Understanding the Role that Intergovernmental Organizations Have in Shaping Country Institutional Environments; Kristin Brandl, Luis Dau and Elizabeth Moore Chapter 7. The Future of Transatlanticism -- Effects of a Rise of US Import Tariffs on exports in the German Automotive Sector. A quantitative, data driven approach; Moritz Kath and Natalia Ribberink Chapter 8. Passive, aggressive or creative? Adjustment strategies of companies affected by sanctions; Beata Stępień and Patrick Weber Chapter 9. How Economic Freedom Affects Transaction Costs; Bruno Buscariolli Pereira and Jorge Manoel Teixeira Carneir Part III. New Governance Challenges in International Business Chapter 10. Macroenvironmental dynamism and firm risk management -- an exploratory investigation; Florian Klein, Jonas Puck and Martin Weiss Chapter 11. Top Management Team Influence on Firms' Internationalization Complexity; Stefano Elia, Peder Greve, Tommaso Vallone, Daniele Marinelli and Lisa Longoni Chapter 12. What happens after offshoring? A comprehensive framework; Marco Bettiol, Maria Chiarvesio, Eleonora Di Maria, Cristina Di Stefano and Luciano Fratocchi Chapter 13. The role of institutional context in backshoring decisions; Lise Lillebrygfjeld Halse, Bella Belerivana Nujen and Hans Solli-Sæther Chapter 14. Multinationals and the European poor. Reverse knowledge transfer or ad hoc solutions?; Antonella Zucchella and Serena Malvestito Part IV. New Contexts for Newly Internationalizing Firms Chapter 15. Born globals or born regionals? A study of 32 early internationalizing SMEs; Sara Melén, Emilia Rovira Nordman and Daniel Tolstoy Chapter 16. Facilitating International Venturing of Emerging Market Firms through Entrepreneurial Transformation: Contingent Role of Technological Environment; Chen Han and Bo Bernhard Nielsen Chapter 17. Uncertainty and decision-making in SME internationalization: the importance of control, prediction, and knowledge; Luis Oliveira, Wensong Bai, Martin Johanson, Milena Ratajczak-Mrozek and Barbara Francioni Chapter 18. The internationalization of early stage social enterprises; Tiina Ritvala and Rilana Riikkinen Part V. Contemporary Management Perspectives in IB Research Chapter 19. VUCA and the Future of the Global Mobile Telco Industry; Angels Dasi, Frank Elter, Paul Gooderham and Torben Pedersen Chapter 20. Managing ambidexterity using networking perspective -- added value or necessity? Empirical evidence from Poland; Joanna Radomska, Przemysław Wołczek and Susana Costa e Silva Chapter 21. Exploring the context-specific talent management practices and their link to firm's absorptive capacity in emerging markets: Brazil vs Russia; Marina Latukha, Louisa Selivanovskikh and Maria Laura Maclennan Chapter 22. Institutional effects on the ownership in cross-border acquisitions by African firms; João Neves de Carvalho Santos, Manuel Portugal Ferreira and José Carlos Rodrigues Chapter 23. When does adaptation to foreign markets matter? An institutional approach to the internationalization of post-transition economy firms; Mariola Ciszewska-Mlinarič and Piotr Trąpczyński Chapter 24. Outward foreign direct investment and multinationality of emerging multinationals; Mohamed Amal and Huaru Kang. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
International business enterprises.
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International business enterprises. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Tulder, Rob van, editor.
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Verbeke, Alain, editor.
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Jankowska, Barbara, editor.
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Buckley, Peter J., 1949- honouree.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Van Tulder, Rob. International Business in a VUCA World : The Changing Role of States and Firms. Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, ©2019 9781838672560 |
| ISBN |
9781838672553 (electronic book) |
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1838672559 (electronic book) |
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9781838672577 (electronic book) |
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1838672575 (electronic book) |
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1838672567 (hardcover) |
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9781838672560 |
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9781838672560 (hardcover) |
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