Reshaping the boundaries of the firm in an era of global interdependence / edited by José Pla-Barber, Joaquín Alegre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

European International Business Association. Conference (35th : 2009 : Valencia, Spain)

Contributor:

Pla-Barber, José.

Alegre, Joaquín.

European International Business Academy.

Series:

Progress in international business research ; v. 5.

Progress in international business research, 1745-8862 ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International business enterprises--Research--Congresses.

International business enterprises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley [England] : Emerald Group, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Globalisation is forcing companies to reshape their boundaries and causing business leaders to rethink corporate strategies within the firm. It is creating the basis for new ways of doing international business. The effects of this global interdependence are also being felt at the more aggregate levels of industries, financial markets and countries economies. The evolution of these trends has rendered obsolete some of the basic understandings of IB theory and practice, including traditional notions regarding the nature of the boundaries of the firm and even the definition of the multinational enterprise itself. This volume of Progress in International Business Research includes a selection of 13 papers from the 35th European International Business Academy Annual Conference, which was held in Valencia (Spain) from the 13th to the 15th of December 2009. This volume organizes in three parts a number of contributions to shed further light on these issues. Part I focuses on the boundaries of the firm and points at issues such as offshoring, cooperation and internationalization. Part II examines the phenomenon of networks within the context of MNCs. Finally, Part III deals with the role of knowledge and innovation in international high-tech environments.

Contents:

Introduction / José Pla-Barber & Joaquín Alegre

The antecedents of offshoring advanced tasks / Peter D. Ørberg Jensen & Torben Pedersen

Reshaping the boundaries of the firm : global value chains and lead-firm strategies / Lorenzo Gui

Comparative evolution of Japanese-European joint ventures in Japan and Europe / Shinichi Ishii & Jean-Francois Hennart

New models of internationalization in traditional manufacturing small firms / Cristina Villar, Esmeralda Linares-Navarro & David Toral

Firm and country determinants of environmental standardization strategy in multinational companies / Javier Aguilera-Caracuel, Juan Alberto Aragón-Correa, Nuria Esther Hurtado-Torres

Networks in internationalisation / Martin Johanson & Pao Kao

Limitations of the network organization in MNCs / Joachim Wolf & William G. Egelhoff

Subsidiary contribution to firm-level competitive advantage : disentangling the effects of MNC external embeddedness / Phillip C. Nell, Ulf Andersson & Bodo B. Schlegelmilch

Influence of subsidiary business networks on the performance of inter-subsidiary innovation transfer in MNCs / Stephie Hsin-Ju Tsai & Mo Yamin

The role of international diversification and global reservoirs of scientific knowledge in explaining performance outcomes / Mario I. Kafouros, Peter J. Buckley & Jeremy Clegg

Cooperation and innovation in the internationalisation of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) / Alicia Rodríguez & María Jesús Nieto

Entrepreneurial orientation and international performance : a contingent approach / Olli Kuivalainen, Sanna Sundqvist & John W. Cadogan

Technological resources, external research partners and export performance : a study of Italian high tech SMEs / Alfredo D'Angelo.

Notes:

At head of title: EIBA.

"Annual conference of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) ... 35th meeting in Valencia, Spain."

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9780857240880

OCLC:

682906579