Creating Value through International Strategy

Everyday, more and more companies embark on international business. Through a collection of articles by leading scholars in International Business this book answers fundamental questions such as: How do companies create value through global strategy? What are the sources of value creation? How do companies organize themselves and manage the process of international expansion? How does location specificity matter in this process? Creating Value through International Strategy will be of interest to academics and professionals in international business and management.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: International Strategy and Location Specificity; A.Ariño, P.Ghemawat & J.E.Ricart PART 1: CREATING VALUE THROUGH INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION Introduction; J.Mair The Process of International Expansion in Knowledge-Intensive Settings: Research Questions, Theory, and Summary of Findings; W.Kuemmerle Multilatinas: Emerging Multinationals from Latin America; J.I.Martinez, J.P.Esperança & J.de la Torre Corporate Governance and Globalization: Toward an Actor-Centred Institutional Analysis; R.V.Aguilera & G.S.Yip PART 2: SOURCES OF VALUE IN GLOBAL STRATEGY Introduction: C.Garçia-Pont Firm-Specific and Non-Firm-Specific Sources of Advantage In International Competition; A.Cuervo-Cazurra & C.A.Un Chilean Foreign Direct Investment across Latin America: Alliances and Competitive Advance; P.del Sol International Geography and History in Host Market Competitiveness of Foreign MNEs: A Research Agenda; S.Rangan & A.Drummond PART 3: ORGANIZING MNCs FOR VALUE CREATION Introduction; B.Cassiman & G.Valentini Dual Paths to Multinational Subsidiary Performance: Networking to Learning and Autonomy to Innovation; S.Venaik, D.Midgley & T.Devinney Decentralization of R&D and Know-How Flows through MNEs: Some Stylised Facts and Insights from Theory; R.Veugelers & F.Sanna-Randaccio Multinational Investment and Organizational Risk: A Real Options Approach; J.J.Reuer & A.W.Tong PART 4: GLOBAL ALLIANCES AND NETWORKS Introduction; A.Ariño Globalizing Professional Services: Are Networked Organizations an Answer?; P.Smith Ring The Impact of Personal and Organizational Ties on Strategic Alliance Characteristics and Performance: A Study of Alliances in the USA, Israel and Taiwan; P.Olk, S.M.Gabbay & T.Chung PART 5: INTERNATIONALIZATION, COMPLEXITY AND CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION Introduction; J.E.Ricart The Roles of the Corporate Level in the Internationalization Process of the Firm; A.A.Caldart & J.E.RicartWireless Apostles and Global Emperors: Strategies for Domination in a Global Arena; M.Koza, S.Svejenova & L.Vives Index

About the Author :
RUTH AGUILERA Department of Business Administration, College of Business and Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois, USA BRUNO CASSIMAN TSUNGTING CHUNG Department of Business Administration, School of Management, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan ADRIAN ATILIO CALDART IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain ALVARO CUERVO-CAZURRA Assistant Professor, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA TIMOTHY DEVINNEY Australian Graduate School of Management, Sydney, Australia ALDEMIR DRUMMOND JOSÉ PAULO ESPERANÇA Instituto Superior de Ciecias do Trabalho e da Empresa, Lisbon, Portugal SHAUL M. GABBAY Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, USA CARLOS GARÇIA-PONT MITCHELL KOZA CEDEP and INSEAD, France WALTER KUEMMERLE Harvard Business School, USA JOHANNA MAIR JON I. MARTINEZ ESE, Graduate School of Business, Santiago, Chile DAVID MIDGLEY INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France PETER OLK Department of Management, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver, USA SUBRAMANIAN RANGAN INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France JEFFREY J. REUER Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, USA FRANCESCA SAMA-RANDACCIO University of Rome, Italy PETER SMITH RING Professor of Strategic Management, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA PATRICIO DEL SOL Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile SILVIYA SVEJENOVA Cranfield School ofManagement, UK TONY W. TONG Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University Columbus, USA JOSÉ DE LA TORRE The Chapman Graduate School of Business, Florida International University, Miami, Florida C. ANNIQUE UN Assistant Professor, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, USA GIOVANNI VALENTINI SUNIL VENAIK University of Queensland Business School, Brisbane, Australia REINHILDE VEUGELERS KULeuven, Belgium LUIS VIVES IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain GEORGE YIP Professor of Strategic and International Management, London Business School, UK