By drawing on historical evidence on the evolution of a group of leading marketing-based multinationals in consumer goods, this paper claims that, despite its richness, the eclectic paradigm, and in particular the concept of ‘ownership advantages’, needs to be revised and extended, to take into account different levels of institutional analysis >>ClickHere>>>
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Challenging Internationalisation Theory
How do international/global trends impact on internationalisation processes for business firms>>ClickHere>>>>
Structural Adjustments and International Trade: Theory and Evidence from China
This paper studies how changes in factor endowment, technology, and trade costs jointly determine the structural adjustments, which are defined as changes in distributions of production and exports>>ClickHere>>>
Developments in International Business Theory
International business theory must meet many challenges in the 1990s, including the explanation of the co-operative process amongst firms as well as the competitive process>>ClickHere>>>
Current Trends in the International Business Environment
This paper provides a critical review of existing theories on International Business (IB) in order to establish current theoretical direction as the paper argues whether traditional theories of international business (IB) can help explain e-commerce>>ClickHere>>>
Corporate governance in international business theory: A review
Identifying three dominant paradigms in international business, this paper undertakes a review of their treatment of industrial relations issues with a view to providing the theoretical framework for a more fruitful dialogue between these two quintessentially inter-disciplinary fields of study>>ClickHere>>>>
International Trade Theory
International trade theory provides explanations for the pattern of international trade and the distribution of the gains from trade>>ClickHere>>>
Fifty Years of International Business Theory and Beyond
This paper, examines the literature on international business (IB) over the last fifty years>>ClickHere>>>>
International Trade Theory and Policy: A Review of the Literature*
This paper provides a survey of the literature on trade theory, from the classical example of comparative advantage to the New Trade theories currently used by many advanced countries to direct industrial policy and trade>>ClickHere>>>
International Trade
On the topic of international trade, the views of economists tend to differ from those of the general public>>>ClickHere>>>