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Despite sustained public debate about the current wave of offshoring, there has been limited international business research on its strategic implications. We examine the generation, appropriation and sustainability of economic rents that flow from competitive advantage in the face of...

This paper provides a methodology for identifying the dynamics of international firm expansion, demonstrating systematic evidence of both ‘toe in the water’ and concentrated bursts of internationalization by US multinational enterprises. We use the methodology of statistical process control...