List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Adjusting to New Challenges and Opportunities

Colin Wheeler

PART ONE BEST PAPER

The Importance of International Predisposition and Contact with the Foreign Market: Empirical Evidence from UK High Technology Small Firms

Marian V. Jones

PART TWO ETHICS, ENVIRONMENT AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Multinational Companies and Ethical Issues

Sumi Dhanarajan

Multinational Companies and Environmental Issues

Duncan McLaren

Russian History and the `Americanization' of Corporate Governance

Trevor Buck

PART THREE THE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF SUBSIDIARIES

Globalization, Corporate Restructuring and Influences on the MNC Subsidiary

Stephen Young

Neil Hood

John R. Firn

Product Mandate Subsidiaries and High Value-Added Scope in MNEs' Operations in the UK: An EU-Based Comparative Investigation

Ana Teresa Tavares

Robert Pearce

Knowledge Transfer Between Parent and Developing Country Subsidiaries: A Conceptual Framework

Paul N. Gooderham

Svein Ulset

Autonomy and Procedural Justice: Validating and Extending the Framework

James H. Taggart

Jennifer M. Taggart

The Development of Pan-European Industrial Structures and the Strategic Development of Subsidiaries

Frank McDonald

Heinz Tuselmann

Arne Heise

Cluster Development Policy and New Forms of Public-Private Partnership

Philip Raines

PART FOUR ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS OPERATIONS

Export Behaviour Research in the UK: A Review

Colin Wheeler

Kevin Ibeh

Understanding International Strategy in the Professional Services Industry: The Case of the International Marketing Communications Sector

Dev K. Boojihawon

Stephen Young

Modelling the Export Marketing Strategy-Performance Relationship: A Replication

Colin Wheeler

Stephen Tagg

James H. Taggart

Does International Entry Mode Choice Influence Firm Performance?

Keith D. Brouthers

Lance Eliot Brouthers

International Price Competition on the Internet: A Clinical Study of the On-Line Book Industry

Rajesh Chakrabarti

Barry Scholnick

New Strategic Group Concepts in the Transition to a Changing Global Environment: A Dynamic Analysis of Strategic Group Behaviour in the World-Wide Spirits Industry

Benedikt Schwittay

Chris Carr

Explaining Organizational Performance Through Psychic Distance

Jody Evans

Felix Mavondo

PART FIVE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF SMEs

Globalization and the Smaller Firm: Reconcilable Notions?

Maureen Berry

Pavlos Dimitratos

Michael McDermott

Multiple Sales Channel Strategies in the Export Marketing of Small and Medium-Sized Design Companies

Mika Gabrielsson

Zuhair Al-Obaidi

References

Name Index

Subject Index