Dear all I’m pleased to announce that the latest issue of the Multinational Business Review has is now available. MBR is published by Emerald and edited from the Boeing Institute of International Business at the John Cook School of Business, St Louis University, under the lead of Alan Rugman. You can access the articles (listed below) free of charge for the next week, using the following access codes: Username: mbr194 Password: emerald Please click-through to the MBR homepage to enter the codes: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/mbr.htm<http://bit.ly/sKcS7L>. Best regards Martyn Dr Martyn Lawrence Senior Publisher – MBR Emerald Group Publishing Limited TABLE OF CONTENTS – MBR 19.4 Editorial (Alan M. Rugman) Title: Extending the conversation of international business Article Title: Extending the literature on the environmental strategy of MNEs Authors: Javier Aguilera-Caracuel, Juan Alberto Aragón-Correa, Nuria Esther Hurtado-Torres Article Type: Research paper Keywords: Country-specific advantages, Environmental institutional distance between countries, Firm-specific advantages, Multinational companies, Natural environment, Resource management, Slack resources, Strategic management Pages: 299-310 Article Title: Unbundling the construct of firm-level international competitiveness Authors: Daniele Cerrato, Donatella Depperu Article Type: Conceptual paper Keywords: Competitive strategy, Firm-specific advantages, International business, International competitiveness, Internationalization, Location-specific advantages Pages: 311-331 Article Title: When more can be less: the perceived value of additional FDI in the same host country Authors: Thomas Hutzschenreuter, Ingo Kleindienst, Boris von Bieberstein Article Type: Research paper Keywords: Diversification, FDI, International business, International investments, International strategy, Sequential perspective, Shareholder value analysis, Value effect Pages: 332-356 Article Title: A bibliometric study on Ghoshal's Managing across Borders Authors: Manuel Portugal Ferreira Article Type: Research paper Keywords: Bibliometric study, Business studies, International business, International business research, Multinational corporations, Research work, Subsidiaries, Transnational solution Pages: 357-375 Article Title: Internationalization of new ventures: tests of growth and survival Authors: Patrick Schueffel, Wolfgang Amann, Emilio Herbolzheimer† Article Type: Research paper Keywords: Business development, Business formation, Business performance, Growth, International business, Internationalization, New ventures, Survival, UK firms Pages: 376-403 Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Registered Office: Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley, BD16 1WA United Kingdom. Registered in England No. 3080506, VAT No. GB 665 3593 06 ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: [log in to unmask] For assistance: [log in to unmask] AIB-L is a moderated list.