This paper brings forward a three-country model to analyze the internationalization process in the age of globalization. It is shown that investment of one company increases not only the incentive to invest in another country for every national competitor but for third country's companies as...

A Theory of Regulatory Protection -- Introduction -- A Theory of Global Firms and Local Regulation -- Evidence -- Determinants of Regulatory Barriers to Trade -- Regulatory Preferences in the Chemical Industry -- Regulatory Preferences in the Food Industry -- Institutional Design -- The Design...

The rapid international expansion of Chinese enterprises since the 1990s has attracted considerable attention in scholarly and policy circles. This book sheds fresh light on the phenomenon by explaining its determinants using the analytical lens of international business theory. -- The author...