Professor John H.Dunning is currently State of New Jersey Professor of International Business at Rutgers University 1996–7 and is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading. He also holds an honorary Professorship in International Business at Beijing's University of International Business and Economics. He is past President of the International Trade and Finance Association, and of the Academy of International Business. He has published extensively on international direct investment and the multinational enterprise, and on industrial and regional economics.

• Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Alliance Capitalism; Chapter 2 The Advent of Alliance Capitalism; Chapter 3 Reappraising the Eclectic Paradigm in an Age of Alliance Capitalism; Chapter 4 Reconfiguring the Boundaries of International Business Activity; Part 2 Trade, Integration and Locational Issues; Chapter 5 What's Wrong—and Right —With Trade Theory?; Chapter 6 MNE Activity; Chapter 7 Globalization, Technological Change and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity; Part 3 FDI, Industrial Restructuring and Competitiveness; Chapter 8 Re-Evaluating the Benefits of Foreign Direct Investment; Chapter 9 The Investment Development Path Revisited; Chapter 10 The Concept of Country Competitiveness; Chapter 11 The Geographical Sources of the Competitiveness of Firms; Part 4 The Japanese Connection; Chapter 12 Recent Foreign Direct Investment in Japan and the United States; Chapter 13 The Strategy of Japanese and Us Manufacturing Investors in Europe; Part 5 The Age of Paradoxes; Chapter 14 Some Paradoxes of the Emerging Global Economy;