Dynamics of Globalization : Location-Specific Advantages or Liabilities of Foreignness?.

The focus of this volume is on how the interface between firm-specific advantages, liability of foreignness, and location-specific advantages are spelled out in the more global world.

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Main Author: Pedersen, Torben
Other Authors: Asmussen, Christian Geisler, Devinney, Timothy M. (Timothy Michael), 1956-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bradford : Emerald Group Pub., 2011.
Series:Advances in International Management, 24.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front cover; dynamics of globalization: location-specific advantages or liabilities of foreignness?; copyright page; contents; list of contributors; editors' biography; editors' introduction; overview of volume 24; note; part i; introduction to part i: booz & co./strategy + business eminent scholar in international management 2010; the transnational transition and the multinational firm; connecting the plots: the contributions of stephen j. kobrin to international management research; governance in a transnational era: stephen j. kobrin and the post-westphalian reality; part ii.
  • INTRODUCTION TO PART II: DYNAMICS OF GLOBALIZATION: LOCATION-SPECIFIC ADVANTAGES OR LIABILITIES OF FOREIGNNESS?THE HOME-BASED ADVANTAGES AND A HIERARCHY OF LOCATION RESOURCES: FOREIGN AND LOCAL FIRMS DEPENDENCY ON LOCATION RESOURCES; THE BENEFITS OF HIERARCHY?
  • EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS IN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS; OVERCOMING LIABILITIES OF FOREIGNNESS BY MODES OF STRUCTURAL COORDINATION: REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS AND THEIR ROLE IN TNCs; MOVING ABROAD: FACTORS THAT MOTIVATE FOREIGN LOCATION OF HEADQUARTER ACTIVITIES.
  • Selecting state or private joint venture partners in emerging markets: impact of liability of foreignness and rule of lawliability of foreignness and location-specific advantages: time, space and relative advantage; liability of foreignness and internationalisation of emerging market firms; evolution of firm- and country-specific advantages and disadvantages in the process of chinese firm internationalization; from stages to phases, a theory of small developing country internationalization; what lies beneath the internationalization of firms in a regional innovation system?
  • Location determinants of fdi in sub-saharan africa: an empirical analysisinternational entrepreneurship at the foreign market level: towards a network perspective; the importance of internal and external knowledge sourcing and firm performance: a latent class estimation; a knowledge system approach to the multinational company: conceptual grounding and implications for research; author biographies.