This examination of multinational location strategy focuses on the areas of economics, management and policy. It discusses issues such as regionalism and international trade; location patterns, local content rules and foreign direct investment; and, plant location in Eastern European countries

'The Multiple Dimensions of Institutional Complexity in International Business Research' provides a fresh overview of many novel international business research challenges as they pertain to salient institutional dimensions with a locational component. The first part of the Volume includes...

This volume contains recent chapters dealing with empirical tests of the relationship between multinationality (M) and performance (P). This is a traditional topic in the area of international business, but recently there has been renewed interest, partly due to theoretical advances such as the...

Introduction / Daniel Van Den Bulcke, Alain Verbeke -- CAVE! HIC DRAGONES! Alan M. Rugman's contributions to the field of international business / Lorraine Eden -- The MNES spatial positioning / Bernard M. Wolf -- Rugman and the geography of MNE activity / John H. Dunning -- Financial and...

Introduction / Jean J. Boddewyn -- history of the AIB fellows : 1975-2008 / Jean J. Boddewyn -- International business history : an AIB tradition / Mira Wilkins -- International business and finance scholarship / Raj Aggarwal -- Reassesing global marketing strategy / Susan P. Douglas and C....