Changing Strategies of International Business

Agnieszka Chidlow is Associate Professor of International Business and Head of the Department of Strategy and International Business at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. As Associate Editor of International Business Review, her research revolves around the internationalisation of firms and methodological issues within international business research.Pervez N. Ghauri is Professor of International Business at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. Having previously studies at Uppsala University in Sweden, Pervez is the Editor-in-Chief of International Business Review.Thomas Buckley is Assistant Professor of International Business Strategy in the Management School of the University of Sheffield, UK. He previously studied at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK, and his research focuses predominantly on the service sector and the retail industry.Emma C. Gardner is Assistant Professor of Strategy and International Business at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. Her research interests include business and professional services, organisational routines and institutional change.Amir Qamar is Assistant Professor of Strategy and International Business at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. His research interests include lean and agile operations, automotive supply chains, MNEs and productivity levels.Emily Pickering is a Research Administrator at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. Her research mainly revolves around institutional operations and HR.

• Part I. Risky Business: Multinationals, Governments and Political Risk.- 1. Legitimacy and Institutional Governance Infrastructure: Understanding Political Risk from a Chinese MNE Perspective.- 2. Applying Theory to Understand How Multinational Firms Address Brexit.- 3. Bureaucrats in International Business: A Review of Five Decades of Research on State-Owned MNEs.- Part II. Paths to Performance and Current Perspectives on Emerging Markets.- 4. Contextual Transfer Barriers, Social Interaction, and Innovation Transfer Performance.- 5. Equity Ownership Strategy in Greenfield Investments: Influences of Host Country Infrastructure and MNE Resources in Emerging Markets.- 6. The Value of Local Externalities in Country-of-Origin Clusters: Evidence from China.- 7. Acquirer’s Country of Origin and Target Firm’s Performance.- 8. Human Rights Reporting of BRIC and Non-BRICMNEs: An Exploratory Comparative Analysis.- Part III. International Small (but) Mighty Enterprises and Entrepreneurs.- 9. The Role of Culture in Responsible Business Practice: An Exploration of Finnish and Russian SMEs.- 10. The Internationalization of Born-Digital Companies.- 11. Technological Disruptions and Production Location Choices.