The policy and technological context within which FDI takes place has changed dramatically in the last two decades. Countries around the world have become more open to FDI, and revolutions in information and communications technology have lowered the costs of internationalization. As a result,...

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction to the Encyclopedia of International Strategic Management -- 1. Adaptation-aggregation-arbitrage (AAA) typology -- 2. Added distance -- 3. Agglomeration -- 4. Asset recombination -- 5. Base of the pyramid -- 6. Born global...

This study employs a modified resource-based approach to examine the competitive advantage enjoyed by knowledge-intensive, small- and medium-sized multinationals (KI-SMMs). While the resource-based view addresses superior capabilities only, this paper examines both superior and inferior...

This Festschrift in honour of Professor Yair Aharoni, a pioneer in the field of international business, looks at several of these new trends in FDI, what they will mean for firms and governments, and the opportunities created by these developments to enrich or extend extant theory.