Handbook of Institutional Approaches to International Business

Edited by Geoffrey Wood, Western University, Canada and Mehmet Demirbag, Professor of International Business and Deputy Dean, Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK

'The latest generation of research in comparative institutional analysis of business is impressively captured in this volume; readers find depth in theory development, breadth in application to practice and policy, and insight on the big research issues ahead. Both generalist and specialist readers will find much of value here.'--Bruce Evan Kaufman, Georgia State University, US

• Contents:IntroductionGeoffrey Wood and Mehmet DemirbagPART I: INSTITUTIONS AND COMPARATIVE BUSINESS STUDIES: THE STATE OF ART 1. Institutions and Comparative Business Studies: Supranational and National RegulationGeoffrey Wood and Mehmet Demirbag 2. International Business, Multinationals and National Business SystemsGlenn Morgan 3. Financing Firms in Different CountriesFranklin Allen 4. Anglo-Saxon Capitalism in Crisis? Models of Liberal Capitalism and the Preconditions for Financial StabilitySue Konzelmann and Marc Fovargue-Davies 5. Framing Human Resource Management: The Importance of National Institutional Environments to What Management Does (and Should Do)John Godard 6. Constitutive Contexts: The Myth of Common Cultural ValuesBrendan McSweeney 7. The Role of Institutions and Multinational Enterprises in Economic DevelopmentBen L. Kedia, Jack A. Clampit and Nolan T. Gaffney 8. The International Labour OrganizationNigel Haworth and Steve Hughes 9. Categories of Distance and International BusinessAlvaro Cuervo-Cazurra and Mehmet Erdem Genc 10. Beyond the ‘Rules of the Game’: Three Institutional Approaches and How They Matter for International BusinessJasper J. Hotho and Torben Pedersen 11. The Multinational Enterprise, Institutions and CorruptionMartina McGuinness and Mehmet Demirbag PART II: INSTITUTIONS AND CONTEXT: DEVELOPED ECONOMIES 12. The Role of the MNE Headquarters in Subsidiary Innovation: An Institutional Perspective Kieran M. Conroy and David G. Collings 13. Partial or Full Acquisition: Influences of Institutional Pressures on Acquisition Entry Strategy of Multinational EnterprisesAhmad Arslan and Jorma Larimo14. Managing Improvisational Practice: The Tension between Structure and Creative DifferenceHolly Patrick, Gail Greig and Nic Beech PART II: INSTITUTIONS AND CONTEXT: EMERGING AND DEVELOPING ECONOMIES15. South–South Foreign Direct Investment: Key Role of Institutions and Future ProspectsAxèle Giroud, Hafiz Mirza and Kee Hwee Wee 16. Internationalization, Institutions and Economic Growth: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis of the New EU Member StatesMatthew M.C. Allen and Maria L. Aldred 17. Financial System and Equity Culture Development in Central and Eastern European Countries: The Effect of Institutional EnvironmentZita Stone, Fragkiskos Filippaios and Carmen Stoian 18. Between Welfare and Bargaining: Union Heterogeneity in Europe’s ‘Far East’Richard Croucher and Claudio Morrison 19. Explaining Persistence of Dysfunctionality in Post-Communist TransformationMartin Upchurch 20. The Co-evolution of the Institutional Environments and Internationalization Experiences of Turkish Internationalizing FirmsBahattin Karademir and Attila Yaprak21. Exploring Western and Chinese Business Relationship ParadigmsDorothy A. Yen and Bradley R. Barnes 22. Reforms in Russian Corporate Governance and Evaluation of Russian Boards of DirectorsDilek Demirbas, Andrey Yukhanaev and Roman Stepanov 32. Firms, Markets and the Social Regulation of Capitalism in Sub-Saharan AfricaGilton KlerckIndex