Growth Frontiers in International Business

Kevin Ibeh is Professor of Marketing and International Business and Assistant Dean/HOD at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He has published and consulted extensively on firm internationalisation, international entrepreneurship and international business, and is considered a leading authority on newly emerging African Multinationals.Paz Estrella Tolentino is a Lecturer in International Business at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. She received the 1989 Richard N. Farmer prize for the best Ph.D. dissertation on International Business. Her research interests include the theory of the multinational enterprise, emerging market MNEs, and international business strategy on which she has published two books and several journal articles.Odile E.M. Janne is a Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. She holds degrees from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, and the University of Reading, UK, and has been aResearch Fellow at Shizuoka University, Japan. Her research interests and publications are in the fields of international business, geography and innovation.Xiaming Liu is Professor in International Business at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. His research interests include foreign direct investment, technology spill over and emerging economies and his articles have appeared in Journal of International Business Studies, Long Range Planning, International Business Review, among others.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Towards advancing the growth of international businesses and the global economy (Kevin Ibeh, Paz Estrella Tolentino, Odile E.M. Janne & Xiaming Liu).- Part I – Policy Frontiers.- Chapter 2 Instigating start-up industries as a foundation for international high-growth venturing (Tuija Mainela, Vesa Puhakka and Sakari Sipola).- Chapter 3 SME Internationalization, Public Policy and the Growth Agenda (Igor Kalinic and Jeremy Clegg).- Chapter 4 After-Care Service Provision and Repeat Investment (Paul Kalfadellis and Susan Freeman).- Part II – Emerging Market Frontiers.- Chapter 5 The Growth of Chinese Multinationals: a Micro-Macro, FSA-CSA Framework (Yuxuan Tang and Robert Pearce).- Chapter 6 Business Groups from Emerging Markets: New Actors in International Business (Ayse Coban).- Chapter 7 The Internationalization of new Russian Ventures: the institutional frontier (Igor Laine, Olli Kuivalainen).- Part III – Innovation Pathways –sectors, knowledge flows and entry modes .- Chapter 8 The International Expansion of an Art Museum: Guggenheim's global local contexts(Tiina Anna-Maria Ritvala, Rebecca Piekkari, Henrika Franck and Nina Granqvist).- Chapter 9 The internationalization of socially oriented organizations (Jie Chen, Sami Saarenketo, Kaisu Puumalainen).- Chapter 10 International Knowledge Flows, Productivity and Growth: Evidence from MNEs in the UK (Gary Cook, Yevgeniya Shevtsova, Hans Loof and Pardis Nabavi Larijani).- Chapter 11 Noticing and Capturing Growth Opportunities in International Markets: A Real Options Perspective (Ali Ahi and Olli Kuivalainen).- Part IV – Ethical Growth Avenues.- Chapter 12 Civil and Political Liberties and FDI: an evaluation of Emerging and Developing Economies (Fragkiskos Filippaios, Fatima Annan-Diab and Amir Hermidas).- Chapter 13 Pay Dispersion, Culture and Bank Performance (Ellen Pei-yi Yu and Bac Van Luu).