Cross-border flows of goods, services, capital, knowledge, and ideas have substantially increased over the last decades. These developments have increased the interdependencies among previously separated economies, given rise to arguments regarding the flattening of the world. Yet, firms...

This volume concentrates on the substantive gaps in the IB/IM field and addresses whether these gaps are resolvable with our current theoretical and methodological toolkit. This entails three specific queries about the past and present: Have our theories advanced some combination of explanation...

Preface / Joseph L.C. Cheng, Elizabeth Maitland, Stephen Nicholas -- In search of the matrix advantage: a reexamination of the fit of matrix structures to transnational strategy / Lex Donaldson -- The dynamics of attention markets in multinational enterprises / Cyril Bouquet, Julian Birkinshaw...