Table of Contents
Preface: Peter Buckley - A Tribute;
Introduction: Progress in International Business Research in and Increasingly VUCA World;
Rob van Tulder, Barbara Jankowska and Alain Verbeke Chapter 1. The Role of International Business Theory in an Uncertain World; Peter Buckley;
Part I. International Business in a VUCA Environment;
Chapter 2. The Impossibility of International Business; Mark Casson;
Chapter 3. The firms of our times: risk and uncertainty; Peter W. Liesch and Lawrence S. Welch;
Chapter 4. Can VUCA help us generate new theory within international business?; L. Jeremy Clegg, Hinrich Voss and Liang Chen;
Part II. New Perspectives on the Interplay between Firms and the Non-Market
Chapter 5. Production Switching and Vulnerability to Protectionism; Ari Van Assche and Byron Gangnes;
Chapter 6. Institutional Schisms: Understanding the Role that Intergovernmental Organizations Have in Shaping Country Institutional Environments; Kristin Brandl, Luis Dau and Elizabeth Moore;
Chapter 7. The Future of Transatlanticism - Effects of a Rise of US Import Tariffs on exports in the German Automotive Sector. A quantitative, data driven approach; Moritz Kath and Natalia Ribberink;
Chapter 8. Passive, aggressive or creative? Adjustment strategies of companies affected by sanctions; Beata Stępień and Patrick Weber;
Chapter 9. How Economic Freedom Affects Transaction Costs; Bruno Buscariolli Pereira and Jorge Manoel Teixeira Carneir;
Part III. New Governance Challenges in International Business
Chapter 10. Macroenvironmental dynamism and firm risk management - an exploratory investigation; Florian Klein, Jonas Puck and Martin Weiss;
Chapter 11. Top Management Team Influence on Firms' Internationalization Complexity; Stefano Elia, Peder Greve, Tommaso Vallone, Daniele Marinelli and Lisa Longoni;
Chapter 12. What happens after offshoring? A comprehensive framework; Marco Bettiol, Maria Chiarvesio, Eleonora Di Maria, Cristina Di Stefano and Luciano Fratocchi;
Chapter 13. The role of institutional context in backshoring decisions; Lise Lillebrygfjeld Halse, Bella Belerivana Nujen and Hans Solli-Sæther;
Chapter 14. Multinationals and the European poor. Reverse knowledge transfer or ad hoc solutions?; Antonella Zucchella and Serena Malvestito;
Part IV. New Contexts for Newly Internationalizing Firms
Chapter 15. Born globals or born regionals? A study of 32 early internationalizing SMEs; Sara Melén, Emilia Rovira Nordman and Daniel Tolstoy;
Chapter 16. Facilitating International Venturing of Emerging Market Firms through Entrepreneurial Transformation: Contingent Role of Technological Environment; Chen Han and Bo Bernhard Nielsen;
Chapter 17. Uncertainty and decision-making in SME internationalization: the importance of control, prediction, and knowledge; Luis Oliveira, Wensong Bai, Martin Johanson, Milena Ratajczak-Mrozek and Barbara Francioni;
Chapter 18. The internationalization of early stage social enterprises; Tiina Ritvala and Rilana Riikkinen ;
Part V. Contemporary Management Perspectives in IB Research
Chapter 19. VUCA and the Future of the Global Mobile Telco Industry; Angels Dasi, Frank Elter, Paul Gooderham and Torben Pedersen;
Chapter 20. Managing ambidexterity using networking perspective – added value or necessity? Empirical evidence from Poland; Joanna Radomska, Przemysław Wołczek and Susana Costa e Silva;
Chapter 21. Exploring the context-specific talent management practices and their link to firm's absorptive capacity in emerging markets: Brazil vs Russia; Marina Latukha, Louisa Selivanovskikh and Maria Laura Maclennan;
Chapter 22. Institutional effects on the ownership in cross-border acquisitions by African firms; João Neves de Carvalho Santos, Manuel Portugal Ferreira and José Carlos Rodrigues;
Chapter 23. When does adaptation to foreign markets matter? An institutional approach to the internationalization of post-transition economy firms; Mariola Ciszewska-Mlinarič and Piotr Trąpczyński;
Chapter 24. Outward foreign direct investment and multinationality of emerging multinationals; Mohamed Amal and Huaru Kang