International business research represents an excellent testing ground for multidisciplinary research. Indeed, it has been considered as a test case for a unified social science approach. This paper (1) examines previous attempts to achieve interdisciplinarity in international business research,...

This paper discusses various explanations of how transaction cost-minimizing corporate configurations come about. It contrasts Darwinian with rational explanations, finding both unsatisfactory. What matters, rather than computation of fully recognized transaction costs, are managerial...

This paper reports on an ESRC-funded project investigating 'the management of cooperative strategies', testing hypotheses drawn largely from (transaction cost) economics using data derived from the investigative methods of social anthropology. Cooperative strategies in a sample of British and...

In this paper we call for a better understanding of cultural distance and its importance to managers across borders. We report on the structuring and interpretation of cultural distance by managers from Germany, the UK and Poland. In particular we are interested in the German/Polish, and the...