Multinationals on the Periphery

BJORN AMBOS Professor of International Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business AdministrationTINA C. AMBOS Assistant Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business AdministrationLOU ANNE BARCLAY Senior Lecturer in International Business, Department of Management Studies, University of the West Indies, JamaicaBIRGITTE GRØGAARD Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, CanadaHELENE HOGGEN BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, NorwaySIV MARINA KARLSEN Lecturer, Oslo University College, NorwayJOCHEN LORENTZEN Chief Research Specialist in the Education, Science and Skills Development Research Programme, Human Sciences Research Council of South AfricaELE REILJAN Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu, EstoniaCARL ARTHUR SOLBERG Associate Professor, BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, NorwayANA TERESA TAVARES Pro-Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, Portugal

• States and Firms on the Periphery: The Challenges of a Globalising World; G.Benito & R.Narula Can Domestically Owned Manufacturing Firms of Small Developing Economies Compete in a Liberalised Trading Environment; L.A.Barclay Internationalisation of Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises: Are Foreign Investors Dictating the Rules of the Game; E.Reiljan The Internationalisation of Patterns of Norwegian Firms: Does Industry Matter?; B.Grøgaard & G.Benito The Pace of Internationalisation for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises; S.M.Karlsen Public Policy, FDI Attraction, and Multinational Subsidiary Evolution: The Contrasting Cases of Ireland and Portugal; A.T.Tavares MNCs in the Periphery: DaimlerChrysler South Africa (DCSA), Human Capital Upgrading, and Regional Economic Development; J.Lorentzen Outside the Triad: An Examination of International R&D Investments within Peripheral Economies; B.Ambos & T.C.Ambos Moving out of the Country: An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Country, Cluster and Firm Related Factors; C.A.Solberg Centre and Periphery in the WTO: The Cast of TRIPS; H.Hoggen