"While originally the eclectic paradigm helped bring together and compare mainly economic theories of International Business (IB), today its greater value is as a framework that has the potential to enable us to relate to one another IB theories derived from ideas taken from different...

The prevailing ownership-based theories of the firm are increasingly being challenged by new forms of organising, as exemplified by the Asian network multinational enterprise (MNE). We believe that an institutional approach, that tries to bridge both the macro and micro levels of analysis, and...