This text brings together an integrated set of research concepts and results to present some contrasting views about the nature and effects of globalization as the multinational continues to develop in the 21st century.

This eighth volume in the AIB series focuses on globalization and international business, and presents the work of leading international business scholars delivered at the 27th Academy of International Business conference at the University of Strathclyde. Contributions examine how the underlying characteristics of international business are changing as we move into early part of the 21st century. The three points of focus are: internationalization of small and medium sized enterprises and the growing occurrence of "born" internationalizers; the impact of culture, structure and technology on managing the multinational corporation; and the implementation of international strategy through the roles and activities of foreign subsidiaries. The book brings together an integrated set of research concepts and results to present some contrasting views about the nature and effects of globalization as the multinational continues to develop in the 21st century.

Introduction - Companies and countries: changes and choices
J.H.Taggart - Industrial clusters and small firm internationalisation
P.Brown &
J.Bell - 'Born' exporting in regional clusters: preliminary empirical evidence
L.Sopas - The internationalization of SMEs: alternative hypotheses and empirical survey
A.Zuchella - International start-ups: a paradigm shift for the 21st century: two illustrative cases spanning the Atlantic
J.E.Johnson - On the resource-based, integrative view of small firm internationalisation: an exploratory study of Nigerian firms
K.I.N.Ibeh - Marketspace and the new mechanism of internationalisation: some preliminary insights
J.K-U.Brock - Is the governance of transnationals really 'beyond the M-form'? A critical review of Bartlett and Ghoshal's 'new organisational model'
P.N.Gooderham &
S.Ulset - Multinational strategies and sustainable industrial transformation in CEE transition economies: the role of technology
J.Manea and R.Pearce - Modes of integration and the diffusion of best practice in the multinational enterprise
M.Wright &
P.Edwards - Global operations managed by Japanese and in Japanese
H.Yoshihara - A new view of the advantage of multinationality
M.Yamin - Strategic evolution of foreign-owned subsidiaries in a host country: a conceptual framework
R.Luostarinen &
R.Marschan-Piekkari - Multinational enterprises in Ireland: the dynamics of subsidiary strategy A.T.Tavares - From globalization to internationalization to Americanization: the example of 'little Americas' in the hotel sector
D.Nickson and C.Warhurst - A survey-based investigation of the determinants of FDI in Portugal
P.J.Buckley &
F.B.Castro