The Relevance of Timing and Time in International Business — Analysis of Different Perspectives and Results

2002 ◽  
pp. 85-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Swoboda
Keyword(s):  
International Business ◽  
Business Analysis

Analytical Differences in the Economics of Geography: The Case of the Multinational Firm

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 1857-1876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip McCann ◽  
Ram Mudambi
Keyword(s):  
International Business ◽  
Regional Economics ◽  
Multinational Enterprise ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Multinational Firm ◽  
Trade Theory ◽  
International Trade Theory ◽  
Business Analysis ◽  
Regional Location ◽  
And Regional Economics

In this paper we argue that the various discussions of the regional location behaviour of the multinational firm by the different fields of analysis which deal with these issues are all rather at a tangent to each other. Only economic geography and regional economics discuss firm-location behaviour at the subnational regional level, whereas international trade theory and traditional international business analysis focus only on firm locations at the level of a country. Where subnational regional locations have recently been discussed in international business analysis, this has been done primarily by incorporating the Porter ‘clusters' literature. However, by adopting a transactions-costs approach, we show that such a ‘clusters' concept is unable to distinguish between whether a multinational enterprise should or should not locate in a particular region. In addition, we use this approach to point to directions of research fruitful for reconciling these various different traditions of location analysis.

China and International Business

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Child
Keyword(s):  
International Business ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
International Economy ◽  
Outward Fdi ◽  
Environmental Complexity ◽  
Host Environment ◽  
Active Player ◽  
Business Analysis ◽  
New Challenges

This article discusses China's growing role in international business. It begins by describing developments in the country's inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) and the forms adopted for such investment. China is both a host environment and active player in the international economy which has become both hugely significant, and which poses new challenges for international business analysis. It continues by considering the kind of environment that China presents for international business, one in which the state continues to be closely involved. The last section turns to the implications China has for international business analysis, concerning the role of national institutions, the strategies available to foreign investing firms for coping with environmental complexity, and issues posed by its patterns of outward FDI.

A literature review on firms' internationalisation through e-commerce

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-143
Author(s):  
Riccardo Resciniti ◽  
Federica De Vanna
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
International Business ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship

The rise of e-commerce has brought considerable changes to the relationship between firms and consumers, especially within international business. Hence, understanding the use of such means for entering foreign markets has become critical for companies. However, the research on this issue is new and so it is important to evaluate what has been studied in the past. In this study, we conduct a systematic review of e-commerce and internationalisation studies to explicate how firms use e-commerce to enter new markets and to export. The studies are classified by theories and methods used in the literature. Moreover, we draw upon the internationalisation decision process (antecedents-modalities-consequences) to propose an integrative framework for understanding the role of e-commerce in internationalisation

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