This paper surveys the recent burgeoning literature that empirically examines the foreign
direct investment (FDI) decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the resulting …

For many years to come this volume... is surely going to be the ultimate reference work on
international business... thanks to Dunning and Lundan, have at their disposal, a wealth of …

There are not many books that are genuine classics, and only a handful in business and
management whose insights and ideas last for 50 years and more. This book is one of the …

From the early 1980s, theoretical analyses have incorporated the multinational firm into the
microeconomic, general-equilibrium theory of international trade. Recent advances indicate …

We find that ethnic Chinese networks, proxied by the product of ethnic Chinese population
shares, increased bilateral trade more for differentiated than for homogeneous products …

Depending on one's point of view, multinational enterprises are either the heroes or the
villains of the globalized economy. Governments compete fiercely for foreign direct …

The first two main sections survey the roles of transnational networks in alleviating problems
of contract enforcement and providing information about trading opportunities, respectively …

A rapidly expanding literature on firm heterogeneity and firm level globalisation strategies
has developed over the last decade. There are new insights on why some firms export and …

This paper addresses two important issues at the nexus of the literatures on international
trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), foreign affiliate sales (FAS), and multinational …

Are foreign production and exports substitutes or complements? Standard theory of the
multinational corporation (MNC) assumes substitution, while previous empirical work …