The paper compares the structural characteristics, market conditions, organizational features, strategic behaviour and performance of merged versus unmerged private business establishments in the UK. The results are based on the analysis of the 1990 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey. The...

The paper analyses two different indicators of internationalisation. The transnationality index developed by the UNCTAD links the internationalisation process to the dichotomy home versus foreign production. The network spread index considers internationalisation in relation to the number of...

The paper deals with the flow of earnings from inward and outward foreign direct investment. The paper starts with a review of some works which stress the intertemporal effects on the balance of payments and from it on the real sector of the economy. This is designed to give an introduction to...

This paper analyses the profile of the world largest 664 transnational companies, in terms of the locational structure of their foreign affiliates. Two basic indices are used: (a) a Network Spread index which assesses the extent to which companies spread their activities in various countries of...

The paper starts with a list of stylized facts on economic trends in the last few decades with particular attention to international elements. A very brief analysis of the current economic crisis is then attempted. The root cause, the causa causans, of the excessive growth of the financial...

The paper is developed at the interface between internationalization and innovation studies. It utilizes data on innovation from the UK Community Innovation Surveys 3 and 2 (CIS3 and CIS2) to assess whether multinationality affects the innovation propensity of surveyed enterprises. The...

The aims of the paper are: (a) to analyse the possible motives behind international location strategies of companies with particular emphasis on why companies may locate in many foreign countries; (b) to develop two complementary methods of assessing the degree of internationalisation and...

With contributions from the leading commentators in the field and an over-arching introduction from the editor, the concerns of this updated and revised Handbook are two-fold. Firstly, to redefine the concept of globalisation and dispel the haze that surrounds it through a systematic and...