GABRIEL BENITO is Professor and Head of the Department of Strategy and Logistics at BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway. RAJNEESH NARULA is Professor and Director of the Centre of International Business and Strategy at the University of Reading Business School, UK.

• States and Firms on the Periphery: The Challenges of a Globalising World; G.Benito & R.Narula Can Domestically Owned Manufacturing Firms of Small Developing Economies Compete in a Liberalised Trading Environment; L.A.Barclay Internationalisation of Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises: Are Foreign Investors Dictating the Rules of the Game; E.Reiljan The Internationalisation of Patterns of Norwegian Firms: Does Industry Matter?; B.Grøgaard & G.Benito The Pace of Internationalisation for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises; S.M.Karlsen Public Policy, FDI Attraction, and Multinational Subsidiary Evolution: The Contrasting Cases of Ireland and Portugal; A.T.Tavares MNCs in the Periphery: DaimlerChrysler South Africa (DCSA), Human Capital Upgrading, and Regional Economic Development; J.Lorentzen Outside the Triad: An Examination of International R&D Investments within Peripheral Economies; B.Ambos & T.C.Ambos Moving out of the Country: An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Country, Cluster and Firm Related Factors; C.A.Solberg Centre and Periphery in the WTO: The Cast of TRIPS; H.Hoggen

GABRIEL BENITO is Professor and Head of the Department of Strategy and Logistics at BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway. RAJNEESH NARULA is Professor and Director of the Centre of International Business and Strategy at the University of Reading Business School, UK.

• States and Firms on the Periphery: The Challenges of a Globalising World; G.Benito & R.Narula Can Domestically Owned Manufacturing Firms of Small Developing Economies Compete in a Liberalised Trading Environment; L.A.Barclay Internationalisation of Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises: Are Foreign Investors Dictating the Rules of the Game; E.Reiljan The Internationalisation of Patterns of Norwegian Firms: Does Industry Matter?; B.Grøgaard & G.Benito The Pace of Internationalisation for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises; S.M.Karlsen Public Policy, FDI Attraction, and Multinational Subsidiary Evolution: The Contrasting Cases of Ireland and Portugal; A.T.Tavares MNCs in the Periphery: DaimlerChrysler South Africa (DCSA), Human Capital Upgrading, and Regional Economic Development; J.Lorentzen Outside the Triad: An Examination of International R&D Investments within Peripheral Economies; B.Ambos & T.C.Ambos Moving out of the Country: An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Country, Cluster and Firm Related Factors; C.A.Solberg Centre and Periphery in the WTO: The Cast of TRIPS; H.Hoggen

GABRIEL BENITO is Professor and Head of the Department of Strategy and Logistics at BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway. RAJNEESH NARULA is Professor and Director of the Centre of International Business and Strategy at the University of Reading Business School, UK.

• States and Firms on the Periphery: The Challenges of a Globalising World; G.Benito & R.Narula Can Domestically Owned Manufacturing Firms of Small Developing Economies Compete in a Liberalised Trading Environment; L.A.Barclay Internationalisation of Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises: Are Foreign Investors Dictating the Rules of the Game; E.Reiljan The Internationalisation of Patterns of Norwegian Firms: Does Industry Matter?; B.Grøgaard & G.Benito The Pace of Internationalisation for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises; S.M.Karlsen Public Policy, FDI Attraction, and Multinational Subsidiary Evolution: The Contrasting Cases of Ireland and Portugal; A.T.Tavares MNCs in the Periphery: DaimlerChrysler South Africa (DCSA), Human Capital Upgrading, and Regional Economic Development; J.Lorentzen Outside the Triad: An Examination of International R&D Investments within Peripheral Economies; B.Ambos & T.C.Ambos Moving out of the Country: An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Country, Cluster and Firm Related Factors; C.A.Solberg Centre and Periphery in the WTO: The Cast of TRIPS; H.Hoggen