International business research represents an excellent testing ground for multidisciplinary research. Indeed, it has been considered as a test case for a unified social science approach. This paper (1) examines previous attempts to achieve interdisciplinarity in international business research,...

This paper finds that significant variation in FDI spillover effects on local industry is obscured through the aggregation common in most studies. Breaking Chinese industrial data for 2001 down by category of ownership of foreign investor, local firm, and by host industry, we find evidence of...

Internationalising firms often begin the process by entering similar markets to their own. This strategy has been given as the explanation for the focus by Australian businesses on Britain as the location for much of their foreign direct investment. This paper extends research into Australian...

International business researchers have played too small a role in influencing cartographers. This paper illustrates the role of maps in current international business discourse and theorising and, by tracing the history and uses of cartography, illustrates the power and limitations of...

Stephen Hymer is a seminal figure in the development of the theory of the multinational enterprise (MNE). This paper argues that the three separate phases of his writing-his thesis (1960), his neoclassical 1968 paper and is later radical pieces-can be reconciled around the central core of the...

We present a discrete choice model that analyses the location and control dilemmas of internationalising firms. The model relates simultaneously to a foreign market and to a foreign resource abundant country, and distinguishes between costs of performing specific value adding activities, costs...

This paper examines the strategy of multinational enterprises in the global economy with particular emphasis on their strategies in and about China. It outlines the rise of globally distributed manufacturing, services and marketing under the control of a focal firm ("the global factory") and...