Theories of the Multinational Firm: A Multidimensional Creature in the Global Economy: Second Edition

Revised and updated international business text for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students.This expanded and updated edition of a successful textbook will be required reading for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of international business, international management and international economy courses.The current debate about the multinational firm as an actor in the global economy is intense and many-sided. This thoroughly accessible and compact textbook presents, analyzes and compares six different theories of the multinational firm that have dominated the research in international business during the last four decades.The author discloses the basic building blocks and assumptions behind each theory so the reader can reach a better understanding of why the multinational firm is looked upon in so many different ways by researchers and stakeholders.

Theories of the Multinational Firm: A Multidimensional Creature in the Global Economy, Second Edition

Business & Money

Mats Forsgren

International

Edward Elgar Pub

During the last two decades the international firm has been an important object of study of academic research in the Nordic countries and Nordic scholars have made considerable contributions to the present knowledge within the field of international business. The aim of this book is to present ongoing research among Nordic scholars. It contains contributions by twenty-nine researchers and covers topics like: the competitive advantage of being an international firm, the influence of cultural differences on internationalization and management, internationalization of subcontractors, human resource management in international joint ventures, divestment of foreign subsidiaries, cross-border buyer-supplier relationships and the international firm as an inter-organizational network. The book can be used as a textbook in courses in International Business on the graduate level as well as a reader by practitioners interested in what is going on at the forefront of international business research. Ingmar Bjorkman is a faculty member in the Department of Organisation and Management at the Swedish School of Economics in Helsinki. Mats Forsgren is a Professor of International Business at the Institute of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen Business School.

Nature of the International Firm Nordic Contributions to International Business Research

Ingmar Bjorkman

Copenhagen Business School Press

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Tore Edström

Jan-Anders Hedenquist

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