List of Contributors ix Preface – Peter...

List of Contributors	ix
Preface – Peter J. Buckley – A Tribute	xiii
Introduction: Progress in International Business Research in an Increasingly Vuca World
Rob van Tulder, Barbara Jankowska and Alain Verbeke	1
PART I: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS IN A VUCA ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 1 The Role of International Business Theory in an Uncertain World
Peter J. Buckley	23
Chapter 2 The Impossibility of International Business
Mark Casson	31
Chapter 3 The Firms of Our Times: Risk and Uncertainty
Peter W. Liesch and Lawrence S. Welch	41
Chapter 4 Can Vuca Help Us Generate New Theory within International Business?
L. Jeremy Clegg, Hinrich Voss and Liang Chen	55
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	69
Chapter 6 Institutional Schisms in Argentina: The Impact of Intergovernmental Organizations on Country Institutional Environments
Elizabeth Moore, Kristin Brandl and Luis Alfonso Dau	89
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	103
Chapter 8 Passive, Aggressive or Creative? Adjustment Strategies of Companies Affected by Sanctions
Beata Stępień and Patrick M. Weber	131
Chapter 9 How Economic Freedom Affects Transaction Costs
Bruno Buscariolli and Jorge Carneiro	157
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	173
Chapter 11 Top Management Team Influence on Firms’ Internationalization Complexity
Tommaso Vallone, Stefano Elia, Peder Greve, Lisa Longoni and Daniele Marinelli	199
Chapter 12 What Happens After Offshoring? A Comprehensive Framework
Marco Bettiol, Maria Chiarvesio, Eleonora Di Maria, Cristina Di Stefano and Luciano Fratocchi	227
Chapter 13 The Role of Institutional Context in Backshoring Decisions
Lise Lillebrygfjeld Halse, Bella Belerivana Nujen and Hans Solli-Sæther	251
Chapter 14 Multinationals and the European Poor: Reverse Knowledge Transfer or Ad Hoc Solutions?
Antonella Zucchella and Serena Malvestito	269
PART IV: NEW CONTEXTS FOR NEWLY INTERNATIONALIZING FIRMS
Chapter 15 Born Globals or Born Regionals? A Study of 32 Early Internationalizing smes
Sara Melén Hånell, Emilia Rovira Nordman and Daniel Tolstoy	289
Chapter 16 Facilitating International Venturing of Emerging Market Firms Through Entrepreneurial Transformation: Contingent Role of Technological Environment
Chen Han and Bo Bernhard Nielsen	309
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	333
Chapter 18 The Internationalization of Early Stage Social Enterprises
Tiina Ritvala and Rilana Riikkinen	357
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	383
Chapter 20 Managing Ambidexterity Using Networking Perspective – Added Value or Necessity? Empirical Evidence from Poland
Joanna Radomska, Przemysław Wołczek and Susana Costa e Silva	403
Chapter 21 Exploring the Context-specific Talent Management Practices and their Link to Firms’ Absorptive Capacity in Emerging Markets: Brazil vs Russia
Marina Latukha, Louisa Selivanovskikh and Maria Laura Maclennan	419
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	435
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	459
Chapter 24 Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Multinationality of Emerging Multinationals
Mohamed Amal and Huaru Kang	481
Index	507

List of Contributors	ix
Preface – Peter J. Buckley – A Tribute	xiii
Introduction: Progress in International Business Research in an Increasingly Vuca World
Rob van Tulder, Barbara Jankowska and Alain Verbeke	1
PART I: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS IN A VUCA ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 1 The Role of International Business Theory in an Uncertain World
Peter J. Buckley	23
Chapter 2 The Impossibility of International Business
Mark Casson	31
Chapter 3 The Firms of Our Times: Risk and Uncertainty
Peter W. Liesch and Lawrence S. Welch	41
Chapter 4 Can Vuca Help Us Generate New Theory within International Business?
L. Jeremy Clegg, Hinrich Voss and Liang Chen	55
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	69
Chapter 6 Institutional Schisms in Argentina: The Impact of Intergovernmental Organizations on Country Institutional Environments
Elizabeth Moore, Kristin Brandl and Luis Alfonso Dau	89
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	103
Chapter 8 Passive, Aggressive or Creative? Adjustment Strategies of Companies Affected by Sanctions
Beata Stępień and Patrick M. Weber	131
Chapter 9 How Economic Freedom Affects Transaction Costs
Bruno Buscariolli and Jorge Carneiro	157
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	173
Chapter 11 Top Management Team Influence on Firms’ Internationalization Complexity
Tommaso Vallone, Stefano Elia, Peder Greve, Lisa Longoni and Daniele Marinelli	199
Chapter 12 What Happens After Offshoring? A Comprehensive Framework
Marco Bettiol, Maria Chiarvesio, Eleonora Di Maria, Cristina Di Stefano and Luciano Fratocchi	227
Chapter 13 The Role of Institutional Context in Backshoring Decisions
Lise Lillebrygfjeld Halse, Bella Belerivana Nujen and Hans Solli-Sæther	251
Chapter 14 Multinationals and the European Poor: Reverse Knowledge Transfer or Ad Hoc Solutions?
Antonella Zucchella and Serena Malvestito	269
PART IV: NEW CONTEXTS FOR NEWLY INTERNATIONALIZING FIRMS
Chapter 15 Born Globals or Born Regionals? A Study of 32 Early Internationalizing smes
Sara Melén Hånell, Emilia Rovira Nordman and Daniel Tolstoy	289
Chapter 16 Facilitating International Venturing of Emerging Market Firms Through Entrepreneurial Transformation: Contingent Role of Technological Environment
Chen Han and Bo Bernhard Nielsen	309
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	333
Chapter 18 The Internationalization of Early Stage Social Enterprises
Tiina Ritvala and Rilana Riikkinen	357
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	383
Chapter 20 Managing Ambidexterity Using Networking Perspective – Added Value or Necessity? Empirical Evidence from Poland
Joanna Radomska, Przemysław Wołczek and Susana Costa e Silva	403
Chapter 21 Exploring the Context-specific Talent Management Practices and their Link to Firms’ Absorptive Capacity in Emerging Markets: Brazil vs Russia
Marina Latukha, Louisa Selivanovskikh and Maria Laura Maclennan	419
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	435
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	459
Chapter 24 Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Multinationality of Emerging Multinationals
Mohamed Amal and Huaru Kang	481
Index	507

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