Contents: Foreword / Paul Beamish -- Introduction / Peter J. Buckley -- Part I A personal perspective -- 1.'The applied economics of (international) business: a personal perspective', (International Journal of the Economics of Business, 21 (1), 3-6) -- Part II The theory of international...

This book focuses on current cutting-edge research concerning the increasing strategic importance of subsidiary networks to the multinational firm. It combines contributions from three major related areas of inquiry: the changing theoretical conception of networks and the structure of the...