This book analyses how foreign direct investors choose their locations, whilst exploring the forces which shape international economic geography. Although these two issues are, to some extent, inter-related, researchers have only recently acknowledged the similarity of economic geography and...

In a shrinking and increasingly globalised world, it is vital for any entrepreneur to carefully select the location at which production or other economic activities will occur. This book provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of entrepreneurial behaviour in a spatial context, and links it...

"This fascinating book examines international business and multinational enterprise as part of a bigger picture, considering the importance of two main components: space and time. Summarising the past five years, Mark Casson reviews the changing role of multinational enterprises within the...

Economic development that meets the needs of the global population without jeopardizing the capacity of future generations is a worldwide challenge for multinational enterprises (MNEs). They are expected to balance their role as global economic actors and environmental stewards in the...

pt. I. Extending theoretical and conceptual thinking about emerging markets -- pt. II. Operational practices in emerging markets and their implications -- pt. III. Looking forward : eclectic perspectives on emerging markets.

The world economy is near a critical crossroads, as a rising China, the greatest-ever beneficiary of US-led capitalism, dreams to replace America's supremacy as a new hegemonic power with a non-liberal world order. This third volume of the trilogy on reformulating the 'flying-geese' theory...

1. Introduction / Robert Taylor -- Part I: overall overview -- 2. Emerging Asian economies and MNC strategies: a review of the literature / Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan -- 3. Regional production networks in Asia - a focus on china, japan and korea / Françoise Nicolas -- 4. Selected Asian...

Introduction -- 1. Towards corporate self-regulation -- 2. Disciplining MNCs: corporate reputation as a driver of ideational change -- 3. Exploring the idea of a self-regulating corporation -- 4. Royal Dutch Shell's PR-led approach to self-regulation -- 5. The rise and fall and rise of the...

Contents: 1. Multinationals: -- in theory and practice -- 2. From FDI to the MNE: -- Hymer and the roots of ownership advantage -- 3. From innovation to internationalisation: the product cycle model -- 4. From multi-domestic hierarchy to network hierarchy -- 5. Trade and FDI revisited: -- the...

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 :...