This paper focuses on Korean firms' relationships with extra-firm institutional actors through an investigation of their international investment in the United States. The study draws from two surveys that were conducted in 2004. The first survey was conducted on US State Offices of Trade and...

Machine tool (MT) production is at the centre of most durable goods manufacturing and is in many ways, an indicator of a country's industrial prowess. Over the past three decades, the machine tool sectors of Japan and the United States have followed distinctly different trajectories. This paper...