International business : adjusting to new challenges and opportunities / edited by Frank McDonald, Heinz Tüselmann, and Colin Wheeler.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-302) and indexes.

Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: Adjusting to New Challenges and Opportunities -- Colin Wheeler -- PART ONE BEST PAPER -- 2 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 -- 3 Multinational Companies and Ethical Issues -- Sumi Dhanarajan -- 4 Multinational Companies and Environmental Issues -- Duncan McLaren -- 5 Russian History and the 'Americanization' of -- Corporate Governance -- Trevor Buck -- PART THREE THE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF SUBSIDIARIES -- 6 Globalization, Corporate Restructuring and Influences -- on the MNC Subsidiary -- Stephen Young, Neil Hood and John R. Firn -- 7 Product Mandate Subsidiaries and High Value-Added -- Scope in MNEs' Operations in the UK: An EU-Based -- Comparative Investigation -- Ana Teresa Tavares and Robert Pearce -- 8 Knowledge Transfer Between Parent and Developing -- Country Subsidiaries: A Conceptual Framework -- Paul N. Gooderham and Svein Ulset -- 9 Autonomy and Procedural Justice: Validating and -- Extending the Framework -- James H. Taggart and Jennifer M. Taggart -- 10 The Development of Pan-European Industrial Structures -- and the Strategic Development of Subsidiaries -- Frank McDonald, Heinz Tiiselmann and Arne Heise -- 11 Cluster Development Policy and New Forms of Public-Private -- Partnership -- Philip Raines -- PART FOUR ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF -- INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS OPERATIONS -- 12 Export Behaviour Research in the UK: A Review -- Colin Wheeler and Kevin Ibeh -- 13 Understanding International Strategy in the Professional -- Services Industry: The Case of the International Marketing -- Communications Sector -- Dev K. Boojihawon and Stephen Young -- 14 Modelling the Export Marketing Strategy-Performance -- Relationship: A Replication -- Colin Wheeler, Stephen Tagg and James H. Taggart -- 15 Does International Entry Mode Choice Influence -- Firm Performance? -- Keith D. Brouthers and Lance Eliot Brouthers -- 16 International Price Competition on the Internet: A Clinical -- Study of the On-Line Book Industry -- Rajesh Chakrabarti and Barry Scholnick -- 17 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 and Chris Carr -- 18 Explaining Organizational Performane r -- Psychic Distance -- Jody Evans and Felix Mavondo -- PART FIVE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF SMEs -- 19 Globalization and the Smaller Firm: Reconcilable Notions? -- Maureen Berry, Pavlos Dimitratos and Michael McDermott -- 20 Multiple Sales Channel Strategies in the Export Marketing -- of Small and Medium-Sized Design Companies -- Mika Gabrielsson and Zukair Al-Obaidi.