Multinational Enterprise and the Globalization of Knowledge

PETER J. BUCKLEY is one of the world's leading academics in the area of international business. He is Professor of International Business and Director of the Centre for International Business at the University of Leeds, UK, and has published 22 books and over 130 refereed articles.

• List of Figures List of Tables Foreword by Edward M. Graham Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction and Overview PART ONE: THE MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE, KNOWLEDGE AND NETWORKS A Global System View of Firm Boundaries; P.J.Buckley & N.Hashai A Formal Analysis of Knowledge Combination in Multinational Enterprises; P.J.Buckley & M.J.Carter Asian Network Firms: An Analytical Framework; P.J.Buckley PART TWO: GLOBALISATION AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY Globalisation, Economic Geography and the Strategy of International Enterprises; P.J.Buckley & P.N.Ghauri Cartography and International Business; P.J.Buckley United States Foreign Direct Investment into Canada: An Empirical Analysis with Emphasis on the Free Trade Hypothesis; P.J.Buckley , J.Clegg, N.Forsans & K.T.Reilly PART THREE: KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER IN MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES Knowledge Transfer to China: Policy Lessons from Foreign Affiliates; P.J.Buckley , J.Clegg & H.Tan The Art of Knowledge Transfer: Secondary and Reverse Transfer in China's Telecommunications Manufacturing Industry; P.J.Buckley , J.Clegg & H.Tan Language and Social Knowledge in Foreign Knowledge Transfer to China; P.J.Buckley , M.J.Carter , J.Clegg & H.Tan PART FOUR: FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND TRANSFORMATION IN CHINA The Relationship between Inward Foreign Direct Investment and the Performance of Domestically Owned Chinese Manufacturing Industry; P.J.Buckley, J.Clegg & C.Wang Reform and Restructuring in a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise: Sinotrans in the 1990s; P.J.Buckley , J.Clegg & H.Tan The Strategy of Foreign-Invested Manufacturing Enterprises in China: Export-Oriented and Market-Oriented FDI Revisited; P.J.Buckley & C.Meng PART FIVE: RESEARCH AGENDA The Research Agenda in International Business: Past, Present and the Future; P.J.Buckley & F.De Beule Notes Index