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Growth Frontiers in International Business

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Provides insights on new growth avenues in international business
  • Explores topics around international entrepreneurship, FDI, networks and growth industries, triggers and practices
  • Themes are examined by a cast of international and expert contributors

Part of the book series: The Academy of International Business (AIB)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
  2. Introduction: Towards Advancing the Growth of International Businesses and the Global Economy

    • Kevin Ibeh, Paz Estrella Tolentino, Odile E. M. Janne, Xiaming Liu
    Pages 1-9
  3. Policy Frontiers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. SME Internationalization, Public Policy and the Growth Agenda

      • Igor Kalinic, Jeremy Clegg
      Pages 33-46
    3. ‘After-Care’ Service Provision and Repeat Investment

      • Paul Kalfadellis, Susan Freeman
      Pages 47-67
  4. Emerging Market Frontiers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
  5. Innovation Pathways: Sectors, Knowledge Flows and Entry Modes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
    2. The International Expansion of an Art Museum: Guggenheim’s Global–Local Contexts

      • Tiina Ritvala, Rebecca Piekkari, Henrika Franck, Nina Granqvist
      Pages 145-166
    3. The Internationalization of Socially Oriented Organizations

      • Jie Chen, Sami Saarenketo, Kaisu Puumalainen
      Pages 167-193
    4. International Knowledge Flows, Productivity and Growth: Evidence from MNEs in the UK

      • Gary Cook, Eugenia Shevtsova, Hans Lööf, Pardis Nabavi Larijani
      Pages 195-215
  6. Ethical Growth Avenues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
    2. Civil and Political Liberties and FDI: An Evaluation of Emerging and Developing Economies

      • Fragkiskos Filippaios, Fatima Annan-Diab, Amir Hermidas
      Pages 237-256
    3. Pay Dispersion, Culture and Bank Performance

      • Ellen Pei-yi Yu, Bac Van Luu
      Pages 257-286
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 287-291

About this book

The ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS (UK and Ireland Chapter)
Published in association with the UK and Ireland Chapter of the Academy of International Business

Reflecting the aim of the 43rd AIB-UKI Conference on re-invigorating the still faltering global economy, this new book brings together fresh and interdisciplinary perspectives on avenues for further advancing the growth of international enterprises and the global economy. Growth Frontiers in International Business includes contributions from a diverse number of established and emergent IB scholars, who richly illustrate contemporary international business growth frontiers. The book presents discussion and thought into four main foci; policy frontiers, emerging market frontiers, innovation pathways and ethical growth avenues. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Management Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom

    Kevin Ibeh, Paz Estrella Tolentino, Odile E. M. Janne, Xiaming Liu

About the editors

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.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Growth Frontiers in International Business

  • Editors: Kevin Ibeh, Paz Estrella Tolentino, Odile E. M. Janne, Xiaming Liu

  • Series Title: The Academy of International Business

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48851-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-48850-9Published: 23 March 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84031-4Published: 07 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-48851-6Published: 15 March 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2662-1223

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-1231

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 291

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: International Business

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Softcover Book USD 139.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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