Multinational Enterprises and Emerging Challenges of the 21st Century

Edited by the late John H. Dunning OBE, former Emeritus Professor of International Investment and Business Studies, University of Reading, UK and Emeritus State of New Jersey Professor of International Business, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, US and Tsai-Mei Lin, Professor of International Business and Dean, College of Business, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan

• Contents:1. IntroductionJohn H. Dunning and Tsai-Mei Lin2. Three Important Trends in Recent Global Economic DevelopmentJen-Hu ChangPART I: FDI AND MNES: SOME RECENT DEVELOPMENTS3. FDI, Globalization and DevelopmentJohn H. Dunning4. Foreign Direct Investment and Investor Strategies in ChinaPhillip D. Grub and Jiawen Yang5. An Econometric Investigation of Chinese Outward Direct InvestmentAdam Cross, Peter Buckley, Jeremy Clegg, Hinrich Voss, Mark Rhodes, Ping Zheng and Xin Lui6. From the Internationalization of R&D to a Global R&D NetworkHiroo TakahashiPART II: NEW DIRECTIONS OF THINKING IN IB RESEARCH7. International Business Studies: Episoidic or Evolutionary?Daniel P. Sullivan and John D. Daniels8. Ignorant Internationalization? The Uppsala Model and Internationalization Patterns for Internet-related FirmsMats Forsgren and Peter Hagström9. The Value Creation Perspective of International Strategic ManagementReid W. Click10. Embedding the Multinational: Bridging Internal and External Networks in Transitional Institutional ContextsRay Loveridge11. Managerial Trust and Leadership in Global Management: Propensities to Trust, the Influence of National Culture on Trust and Conditional Trust – A Cross-Cultural StudyJames J. Cavazzini and Min H. Lu12. Cultural Genes, the Trust Model and the Specialization and Internationalization of the Management of Chinese Family EnterprisesDonglin Song and Zheng Li13. The Subsidiary Role of Multinational Enterprises and Procedural JusticeTai-Ning Yang and Chuan-Ling Kang14. The History and Prospects of International Business Education in Japan and in the Asian RegionNoritake Kobayashi15. Globalization and Higher Education: Some Strategies Adopted by Waseda UniversityKen’ichi Enatsu16. Developing Singapore as a Global Education Hub: Opportunities and ChallengesAh-Keng Kau17. The Global Impact of American Restaurant Franchises: An International PerspectiveMahmood A. Khan and Maryam Khan18. Sustainable Tourism, Industrial Development and Multinational Corporations: A Case of Productivity Spillovers in MalaysiaWong Kong Yew and Tom Baum19. Managerial Philosophies, Peace Culture and the Performance of Multinational Enterprises’ Cross-Cultural ManagementTsai-Mei Lin and Gun-Ming ChuangPART III: SOME TAIWANESE CASE STUDIES 20. An Empirical Examination of the Association between Manufacturing Decisions and Performance Evaluation: Evidence from Taiwanese Listed Electronic FirmsFujiing Shiue and Yi-Yin Yen21. Domestic Inter-Firm Networks and Corporate Internationalization: A Cross-Industry Study of Taiwanese SMEsKu-Ho Lin, Isabella M. Chaney, Thomas C. Lawton and Meng-Chun Liu22. The Influence of the Internet on the Internationalization of SMEs in TaiwanYi-Long Jaw and Chun-Liang Chen23. Knowledge Transfer and Entry Strategies of Taiwan TransnationalsYung-Kuei LiangIndex

'. . . a fascinating and valuable collection of frameworks, insights and background information relating to the globalisation of business, and particularly that which is affected by the increasing influence from Asia. It is intellectually compelling as well as useful to practitioners.'