We reflect on the background and evolution of the internationalization motives over the last few decades, and provide suggestions for how to use the motives for future analyses. We also reflect on the contributions to the debate of the accompanying articles of the forum. There continue to be new...

Books reviewed: Tran Van Hoa and Charles Harvie, The Causes and Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis V.N. Balasubramanyan, Conversations with Indian Economists Taketoshi Ito and Anne Krueger, The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in East Asian Economic Development Kenneth Schreve and Matthew...

In this paper, we seek to examine the importance of environmental factors in determining subsidiary roles. In particular, we examine the environmental factors associated with deep integration schemes. Such schemes require a convergence of economic structure due to the establishment of common...