1. Is the United States ready for FDI from China? : overview / Karl P. Sauvant -- 2. Modes of entry by Chinese firms in the United States : economic and political issues / Steven Globerman and Daniel Shapiro -- 3. The US regulatory and institutional framework for FDI / David N. Fagan -- 4. The...

This innovative book analyses the geographical patterns in foreign direct investment flows by combining elements from the theory of international production and the theory of economic geography. It develops a model for explaining why foreign direct investment is attracted to certain locations....

The amount of physical matter in the world is fixed and improvements to people's material circumstances are only created by their ability to reconfigure this matter. What distinguishes labour, and subsequently what allows for differing increments of value, are our capabilities, skills and...

This book was born from the editor's conviction that a wide set of contributors should provide the economic and corporate sectors with guidelines, developed from rigorous research and case studies, to analyse those adjustments made necessary through international terrorism, as known since...

1. Introduction. SME internationalization : current themes of study and modern challenges / Marian V. Jones ... [et al.] -- 2. Does entry mode matter? : reviewing current themes and perspectives / Marian V. Jones and Stephen Young -- 3. Exploring opportunity creation in internationalizing SMEs :...

Presenting the challenges and opportunities ahead, the contributors to this volume critically examine the current status and future direction of research in international marketing. The result of a sustained and lively dialogue among contributors from a variety of cultures, this volume gathers...

"This definitive Research Handbook explores the restructuring strategies of globalised firms, bringing together a wide range of topics from export exit, subsidiary divestment and market re-entry to relocation, offshoring and backshoring. Contributors from diverse fields including marketing,...