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. 

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