The Oxford Handbook of International Business

The Oxford Handbook of International Business comprises twenty-eight original chapters from the world's most distinguished scholars in the field of international business. United as a whole, these reflect both the present structure of the field and the major intellectual issues of current and likely future interest. Demonstrating analytical insight and critical thinking, the authors are all authorities on their chosen topics and have been active as leaders in the Academy of International Business. Their chapters survey and synthesize relevant literature of recent years, ensuring that the volume will be a primary reference for students and scholars throughout the social sciences. The book is split into five major sections, providing comprehensive coverage of the following areas: the history and theory of the multinational enterprise; the political and policy environment of international business; strategies of multinational enterprises; the financial areas of the multinational enterprise (marketing, finance and accounting, HRM, and innovation); and business systems in Asia, South America, and the transitional economies. Contributors to this volume - David M. Berg (Assistant Professor, School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas) Julian Birkinshaw (Associate Professor, London Business School) Michael Bowe (Senior Lecturer in Economics and International Finance, Manchester School of Management, UMIST) Thomas L. Brewer (Professor and Editor of Journal of International Business Studies, Georgetown University) Peter Buckley (Professor and Director, Centre for International Business, University of Leeds) John Cantwell (Professor of Economics, University of Reading) Mark Casson (Professor of Economics, University of Reading) John Child (Chair of Commerce, University of Birmingham and Visiting Professor of Management, University of Hong Kong) James W. Dean (Professor of Economics, Simon Fraser University and Kaiser Professor of International Business, Western Washington University) John Dunning (Emeritus Professor of International Business, University of Reading and Emeritus State of New Jersey Professor of International Business, Rutgers University) Lorraine Eden (Associate Professor, Department of Management, Texas A&M University) John L Graham (Professor, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine) Robert Grosse (Professor of World Business and Director of Research, Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management) Stephen Guisinger (Professor of International Management, University of Texas at Dallas) Jean-Francois Hennart (Professor, Department of Organization and Strategy, Tilburg University) Andrew C. Inkpen (Associate Professor, Thunderbird, American Graduate School of International Management) Stephen J. Kobrin (William Wurster Professor of Multinational Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) Bruce Kogut (The Dr. Felix Zandman Professor of International Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) Masaaki (Mike) Kotabe (The Washburn Chair of International Business and Marketing, Temple University) James R. Markusen (Professor of Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder, NBER and CEPR) Klaus E. Meyer (Associate Professor, Center for East European Studies, Copenhagen Business School) Sylvia Ostry (Distinguished Research Fellow, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto) Gordon Redding (Affiliate Professor of Asian Business, INSEAD) Alan M. Rugman (Professor of Management, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Indiana University) Debora L. Spar (Professor, Harvard Business School) Stephen B. Tallman (Professor of Management, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah) Alain Verbeke (Professor of International Business, University of Brussels and Associate Fellow, Templeton College, University of Oxford) D. Eleanor Westney (Sloan Fellows Professor, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Mira Wilkins (Professor of Economics, Florida International University) George S. Yip (Professor of Strategic and International Management, London Business School) Stephen Young (Professor and Co-Director, Strathclyde International Business Unit, University of Strathclyde) Srilata Zaheer (Professor, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota)