Dr Svetla Trifonova Marinova, Associate Professor of International Business at Aalborg University, Denmark, has an MBA degree from Warwick University, UK, and a PhD degree from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She has taught on both sides of the Atlantic, conducted extensive research, co-authored seven books and published more than seventy papers in scholarly journals.

• 1. Introduction 2. Convergence versus Divergence: Testing Varieties of Capitalism Perspective on the Globalization of Business Practices; Andrei Kuznetsov and Marcus Jacob 3. Institutional Determinants of Outward Foreign Direct Investment from Emerging Economies: A Home Country Perspective; Mohamed Amal and Bruno Thiago Tomio 4. Effects of Government Economic Policy on Outward Foreign Direct Investment: Experience from China and the EU1; Witold Wilinski and Xiaoxin Li 5. Foreign Direct Investment Growth in China: Implications for Politics, the Economy and Culture; Attila Yaprak and Yingtao Xiao 6. Should Governments Support Outward FDI?: The Case of Poland; Marian Gorynia, Jan Nowak, Piotr Trapczy?ski and Rados?aw Wolniak 7. Innovation in Emerging Economies: The Spillover Effects of Foreign Direct Investment and Institutions in Russia; Natalya Smith and Ekaterina Thomas 8. The Role of Home Governments in Outward Foreign Direct Investment; Svetla Marinova, John Child and Marin Marinov 9. Structural Model of Institutional Environment Influence on International Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies; Daria Volchek, Sami Saarenketo and Ari Jantunen 10. The Effects of Country and Industry Factors on the Competitive Advantage of European Construction Firms Operating in Russia; Andrei Panibratov 11. Understanding Failure in International Retailing: An Institutional Framework for Future Investigation; Alphonse Aklamanu 12. Key Determinants of Retail Internationalization: Do Institutions Matter?; Michael R. Czinkota, Svetla Marinova, A. Coskun Samli and Zhizhong Jiang 13. Firm Internationalisation and Institutions: The Case of Pharmaceutical Retailing; Anna Karhu