pt. 1. Learning from early scholars -- pt. 2. An institutional perspective on international business scholarship -- pt. 3. FDI and the competitiveness of firms and countries -- pt. 4. Some ethical challenges of global capitalism -- pt. 5. Some personal reflections.

Too many international business strategy textbooks slavishly adhere to mainstream conceptual models. The publication of those models in prestigious practitioner journals such as the Harvard Business Review seems to shelter them from scholarly criticism. The problem is that the policy...