New challenges for international business research : back to the future

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Title:

New challenges for international business research : back to the future

Author:

Dunning, John H.

ISBN:

9781848448322

Personal Author:

Dunning, John H.

Publication Information:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, c2010.

Physical Description:

xxii, 466 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Part 1. Learning from early scholars -- 1. The contribution of Edith Penrose to international business scholarship -- 2. If Hymer were writing now -- 3. Some antecedents of internalisation theory -- Part 2. An institutional perspective on international business scholarship -- 4. A new Zeitgeist for international business activity and scholarship -- 5. The changing locational determinants of MNE activity: 1960-2006 -- 6. Institutions and the OLI paradigm of the multinational enterprise -- 7. Towards a new paradigm of development: implications for the determinants of international business activity -- 8. Institutional reform, FDI and the locational competitiveness of European transition economies -- Part 3. FDI and the competitiveness of firms and countries -- 9. FDI, globalisation and development: some implications for the Korean economy and Korean firms -- 10. Foreign direct investment and the locational competitiveness of countries -- 11. The role of FDI in the regionalisation/globalisation debate -- Part 4. Some ethical challenges of global capitalism -- 12. In search of a global moral architecture -- 13. Corporate social responsibility: an institutional approach -- Part 5. Some personal reflections -- 14. Perspectives on international business scholarship: fifty-five years of researching and teaching international business -- 15. The United Nations and transnational corporations: some personal reminiscences.

Abstract:

"In this final collection of his essays, John Dunning looks back on more than 40 years of research in International Business (IB), whilst at the same time considering possibilities for the future. This book includes fifteen updated chapters, many of which have not been widely accessible to the IB community until now. It provides a fascinating insight into the evolution of Professor Dunning's thinking on some of the most important issues in the contemporary global economy, from the role of institutions in development to the moral challenges of global capitalism. Including some personal reflections, this compelling collection provides a unique perspective on the intellectual contribution from one of the field's greatest scholars. This insightful book will appeal to and inspire scholars and advanced students in international business and related disciplines who are interested in the latest thinking of one of the leading figures in the field."--Back cover.

Subject Term:

International business enterprises -- Research.

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In this final collection of his essays, John Dunning looks back on more than 40 years of research in international business (IB), whilst at the same time considering possibilities for the future.

This book includes fifteen updated chapters, many of which have not been widely accessible to the IB community until now. It provides a fascinating insight into the evolution of Professor Dunning's thinking on some of the most important issues in the contemporary global economy, from the role of institutions in development to the moral challenges of global capitalism. Including some personal reflections, this compelling collection provides a unique perspective on the intellectual contribution from one of the field's greatest scholars.

This insightful book will appeal to and inspire scholars and advanced students in international business and related disciplines who are interested in the latest thinking of one of the leading figures in the field.