Business History and International Business

Peter J. Buckley, Professor of International Business and Director of the Centre for International Business, University of Leeds was President of the Academy of International Business 2002-04. He is currently Chair of the European International Business Academy. He holds a Changjiang Scholarship at the University of International Business and Economics, Beijing.

• 1. Introduction: Business history and international business Peter J. Buckley 2. Multinational enterprise in insurance: An historical overview Mira Wilkins 3. Siegmund Warburg, the City of London and the financial roots of European integration Niall Ferguson 4. Revisiting the psychic distance paradox: International retailing in China in the long run (1840–2005) Haiming Hang and Andrew Godley 5. The multinational enterprise and subsidiary evolution: Scotland since 1945 Pavlos Dimitratos, Ioanna Liouka, Duncan Ross and Stephen Young 6. Resolving the global efficiency versus local adaptability dilemma: US film multinationals in their largest foreign market in the 1930s and 1940s Peter Miskell 7. The internationalisation process theory and the internationalisation of Norwegian firms, 1945 to 1980 Rolv Petter Amdam 8. A silent revolution: The internationalisation of large Spanish family firms Nuria Puig and Paloma Fernández Pérez 9. British overseas railways as free-standing companies, 1900–1915 David Boughey