Growth Frontiers in International Business

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

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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 a Research 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.

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