Martin Franz holds the chair of Human Geography at the Institute of Geography at the University Osnabrück. Martina Fuchs holds the chair of Economic and Social Geography at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences at Cologne University. Sebastian Henn holds the chair of Economic Geography at the Institute of Geography at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Ram Mudambi is Professor and Perelman Senior Research Fellow in Strategic Management at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University.

• 1. Introduction: Managing Culture and Interspace in Cross-border Investments: Building a Global CompanyMartina Fuchs, Sebastian Henn, Martin Franz and Ram Mudambi 2. Othering FDI in the Media: How Chinese Investors Are Constructed as Deviating Others in German DailiesSophie Golinski and Sebastian Henn 3. Behind the Scenes: Managers’ Interpretation of Foreign Takeovers by Investors of Emerging Economies Martina Fuchs and Martin Schalljo 4. Industrial Relations and FDI from China and India in Germany Martin Franz, Kai Bollhorn and Reinhard Röhrig 5. Cultural Frictions in Post-merger Integration Processes: A View on ‘Face’ When Dealing with Asian Counterparts Muriel Durand6. Multiple Organisational Identities after M&As Luca Giustiniano and Luigi De Bernardis7. Becoming a National Champion, Yet Remaining a Global Player: The Acquisition of Volvo Car by Zhejiang GeelyClaes G. Alvstam and Inge Ivarsson 8. Asymmetric Effects of Cultural Distance: A Comparison of German and Austrian Inbound and Outbound Cross-border Transactions and the Diverging Effect of Integration of Wholly Owned Target FirmsLucas Huter, Mai Anh Dao, Daniel Degischer, Florian Bauer, Yvonne Stockhammer and Manuel Erlacher9. Brownfield Investments in the German Automotive Parts Industry: Private Equity as a Door OpenerChristoph Scheuplein10. Reactions to China’s Cross-border Investment and International Investment Law Karl P. S. Sauvant and Michael D. Nolan11. Chinese Outward FDI in Germany and the U.S.: An Assessment of National and Sub-national Location Strategies Susan M. Walcott and Ingo Liefner12. The Perception of Local Institutional Quality by Multinationals in a Transition Economy Context: Empirical Evidence from Three Regions in Ukraine Daria Zvirgzde, Daniel Schiller and Javier Revilla Diez13. Realities of Responsible Business: Structural and Institutional Conditions in MNE-Local Government Bargaining Päivi Oinas and Erja Kettunen 14. Between Embeddedness and Otherness: Internationalisation of Grocery Retailers in Emerging Markets Lech Suwala and Elmar Kulke 15. Making Sense of Local Customer Relationships in Cross-border Acquisitions Christina Öberg 16. Evolving Forms of Collaborative Finance in Corporate Networks: Insights from the Automotive Industry in Germany and Brazil Christian Baumeister and Hans-Martin Zademach 17. Synopsis: Building a ‘Global’ Company: Challenges of Interspace and Regional Embeddedness Martina Fuchs, Sebastian Henn, Martin Franz and Ram Mudambi

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