Governance plays an important role in coastal wetland protection and restoration. Through a
review of the literature on the governance of coastal wetlands, we assessed the drivers …

Ireland's success in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) provides guidance for
emerging economies. The key to Ireland's success is its consistency of policy towards FDI …

The accelerating cross-border flow of products, services, capital, ideas, technology and
people is driving businesses--large and small--to internationalise. International Business …

Of all the sciences and social sciences, management is the one that most deliberately turns
its back on the past. Yet management as we know it today did not spring into life fully formed …

New-technology-based firms (NTBFs) embarking on a strategy of rapid internationalisation
choose foreign market entries that minimise transaction costs and the related risks of failure …

In considering the origin, form, and global spread of the value-added activities of
multinational enterprises (MNEs) over the past four decades, this chapter traces the main …

Business history and international business are cognate subjects. There are few, if any,
studies of international business that do not require a proper study of context. International …

This article studies the dominant role played by large family firms in the internationalisation
of the Spanish economy. Based on new empirical evidence from circa 150 historical and …

Purpose Drawing on the resource-based view, dynamic capabilities and exploration
literatures, the purpose of this paper is to simultaneously investigate the impact of outside-in …

This paper examines the theory of international business before 1960 when Stephen Hymer
wrote his seminal thesis. It is shown that there existed a considerable amount of theory, but …