International Business and Institutions After the Financial Crisis

2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-36719-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 295 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 5974 g

Reihe: The Academy of International Business

The challenge in the post crisis world is how business, government and academia come together to foster conditions for sustainable economic development. Understanding this requires an examination of the fundamental principles of IB, including location decisions, returns to multinationality and links between government and business, and CSR.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Temouri, Y.

Jones, C.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Internationales Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: International Business, Institutions and Performance after the Financial Crisis; Yama Temouri and Chris Jones 1. The Role of International Business in the Global Spread of Technological Innovation; John Cantwell 2. Internationalisation of Firms From Emerging Markets; Location Choice and the Impact of Institutions and State Ownership; Saul Estrin PART I: INSTITUTIONS AND FOREIGN INVESTMENT 3. The Entry of Multinational Companies to the Base of the Pyramid: A Network Perspective; Misagh Tasavori, Pervez Ghauri and Reza Zaefarian 4. FDI and Property Rights in Resource-Rich Countries; Chiara Amini 5. The Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Performance of European Acquisitions; Rekha Rao Nicholson and Julie Salaber 6. Internal Capital Markets and outward Foreign Investment from India and China; Abubakr Saeed and Suma Athreye 7. The Investment Development Path in the Context of Poland's Accession to the European Union and the Global Financial and Economic Crisis; Ewa Kaliszuk and Agata Wancio 8. Adoption of the Global Reporting Initiative by FT500 firms: Overcoming the Liability of Foreignness; Stephen Chen and Petra Bouvain PART II: KNOWLEDGE FLOWS AND PERFORMANCE 9. Inward Investment, Technology Transfer and Innovation: Direct Evidence from China; Meng Song, Nigel Driffield and Jun Du 10. Knowledge Sources of Persistent Exporters: Effects on the Growth and Productivity of Firms; Hans Lööf, Pardis Nabavi, Gary Cook and Börje Joansson 11. Financing Patterns, Multinationals and Performance: Firm-level Evidence from 47 Countries; Sushanta Mallick and Yong Yang 12. The Role of Language in Bilateral FDI: A Forgotten Factor?; Palitha Konara and Yingqi Wei 13. The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Performance in the Enlarged Europe: a Meta-Regression Analysis; Randolph Luca Bruno and Maria Cipollina 14. Drivers of Technology Upgrading: Do Foreign Acquisitions Matter to Chinese Firms?; Sourafel Girma, Yundan Gong, Holger Görg and SandraLancheros 15. International R and D Spillovers, TFP and Institutional Distance; Dolores Anon Higon and Miguel Manion-Antolin

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Yama Temouri is Lecturer in International Business at Aston Business School, Aston University, UK. His main research interests focus on the link between home and host country institutional quality, foreign direct investment and firm performance.

Dr. Chris Jones is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Aston Business School, Aston University, UK. He maintains primary research interests in various areas of International Economics and Business. He has written papers on economic growth, trade and foreign direct investment with a focus on developing countries. His main interest is using firm-level data to analyse the location choices of MNE's applied to a number of different contexts; these include FDI in conflict zones, FDI in tax havens and the foreign direct investment decisions of Tobacco firms. In 2011, Chris won the Economics Network's Student Nominated Award for Learning and Teaching. In 2012 Chris won the Aston Excellence Award for being the Outstanding Teacher of the Year (staff nominated).