International Business: Adjusting to New Challenges and Opportunities

Introduction; F.McDonald, H.Tüselmann & C.Wheeler The Importance of Contact with the Foreign Market: Empirical Evidence from UK High Technology Small Firms; M.V.Jones PART 1: ETHICS ENVIRONMENT AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Multinational Companies and Ethical Issues; S.Dhanarajan Multinational Companies and Environmental Issues; D.McLaren Russian History and the 'Americanization' of Corporate Governance; T.Buck PART 2: THE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF SUBSIDIARIES Globalization, Corporate Restructuring and Influences on the MNC Subsidiary; S.Young, N.Hood & J.Firm Mandate Subsidiaries and High Value-Added Scope in MNEs' Operations in the UK: AN EU-Based Comparative Investigation; A.T.Tavares & R.Pearce Knowledge Transfer Between Parent and Developing Country Subsidiaries: A Conceptual Framework; P.Gooderham & S.Ulset Autonomy and Procedural Justice: Validating and Extending the Framework; J.H.Taggart &J.Taggart US Sales of Intellectual Property to the People's Republic of China: The Affiliate or Non-Affiliate Route? J.Clegg, A.Cross& Xiao Lian The Development of Pan-European Industrial Structures and the Strategic Development of Subsidiaries; F.McDonald, H.Tüselmann & A.Heise Cluster Development Policy and New Forms of Public-Private Partnership; P.Raines PART 3: ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS OPERATIONS UK Export Performance Research 1990-2000: Review and Theoretical Framework; C.Wheeler & K.I.Ibeh Understanding International Strategy in Professional Services Industries; D.Boojihawon & S.Young Modelling the Export Marketing Strategy-Performance Relationship; C.Wheeler, S.Tagg & J.H.Taggart Institutional, Cultural, Transaction Cost and Entry Mode Influences on Performance; K.Brouthers & L.E.Brouthers International Price Comparison on the Internet: A Clinical Study of the Online Book Industry; R.Chakrabarti & B.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; B.Schwittay &C.Carr Explaining Organizational Performance Through Psychic Distance; J.Evans PART 4: INTERNATIONALIZATION OF SMEs Globalization and the Smaller Firm: Reconcilable Notions? M.Berry; P.Dimitratos & M.McDermott Multiple Sales Channel Strategies in Export Marketing of Small and Medium Sized Design Companies; M.Gabrielsson & Z.Al-Obaidi