This book provides rigorous analysis of the wide range of questions surrounding the role of international institutions … their activities. Also discussed are: how nation states and international institutions control the activities of MNEs, and … how the role and strategies of international institutions can be changed to minimise any negative effects without …

of the trends, problems and opportunities demanding attention in international trade negotiations …1. The World Trade Organization and the international political economy -- 2. Institutional development of the WTO -- 3 …

of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international …

international economic geography. Although these two issues are, to some extent, inter-related, researchers have only recently … acknowledged the similarity of economic geography and international business approaches to the empirical assessment of likely …

the theory of international business -- 5. The organization of the multinational enterprise : an information cost approach … -- 6. International joint ventures -- 7. Real options in international business -- 8. Entrepreneurship and the … international business system : developing the perspective of Schumpeter and the Austrian School -- 9. Networks in international …

: collective management tasks -- 7. Concerting entrepreneurship : an international public good -- 8. Institutionalizing Atlantic …

1. International business in a changing world environment -- 2. Whither global capitalism? -- 3. Some paradoxes of the …

1. Relational assets, networks and international business activity -- 2. Alliance capitalism and macroeconomic policies …--as a means to facilitate more harmonious development in the international economy …

1. The determinants of international production -- 2. Trade, location of economic activity and the multinational … empirical tests -- 4. Explaining the international direct investment position of countries : towards a dynamic or developmental … approach -- 5. The investment development path revisited -- 6. The changing dynamics of international production : an economic …