In his perceptive and easily readable autobiography, John Dunning walks the reader through the four seasons of his professional and private life. With just the right touch of humour, he recounts his boyhood experience during the eventful days of the Second World War, his three-year spell in the...

pt. 1. Learning from early scholars -- pt. 2. An institutional perspective on international business scholarship -- pt. 3. FDI and the competitiveness of firms and countries -- pt. 4. Some ethical challenges of global capitalism -- pt. 5. Some personal reflections.

1. International business in a changing world environment -- 2. Whither global capitalism? -- 3. Some paradoxes of the emerging global economy : the multinational solution -- 4. Globalization, economic restructuring and development -- 5. Regions, globalization and the knowledge-based economy :...

1. The determinants of international production -- 2. Trade, location of economic activity and the multinational enterprise : a search for an eclectic approach -- 3. Trade, location of economic activity and the multinational enterprise : some empirical tests -- 4. Explaining the international...

Globalisation, alliance capitalism and R&D-intensive value adding activities are hallmarks of economic activity in advanced industrial countries. National governments have responded to these changes by pursuing policies promoting "techno-nationalism" which includes fostering R&D investment by...

Transnational Corporations and the Global Economy. Edited by Richard Kozul-Wright and Robert Rowthorn. Basingstoke: Macmillan (for United Nations University and World Institute for Development Economics Research), 1998. Pp.448. £55. ISBN 0 333 68957 7 The New Global Economy and Developing...

This paper considers how economic globalization has affected opportunities and challenges for developing countries in following a multinational enterprise (MNE)-assisted development strategy, revisiting an earlier article by the authors. The growing share of industrial activity owned and/or...