Firms in the international economy :  firm heterogeneity meets international business / 
edited by Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Steven Brakman, Hans van Ees, and Harry Garretsen. 
 - Cambridge, Massachusetts :  The MIT Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource (vi, 432 pages) :  illustrations. 
 - CESifo seminar series .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction : firm heterogeneity, international economics, and international business --  International business theory for international economists /  Managerial characteristics and the export decision of firms /  Foreign firms and local communities --  Institutional quality and FDI to the South /  Heterogeneous export spillovers to Chinese domestic firms /  Intrafirm and arm's-length trade /  Make or buy : on the organizational structure of firms with asymmetrical suppliers /  Global value chains during the Great Trade Collapse /  Multinationals' technology transfers and firms' performance /  Innovation offshoring and inventor substitution /  Heterogeneous firms, trade, and economic policy /  Alan M. Rugman and Quyen T.K. Nguyen --  Filomena Pietrovito, Alberto Fracon Pozzolo, and Luca Salvatici --  David Sala and Erdal Yalcin --  Julia Darby, Rodolphe Desbordes, and Ian Wooton --  Florian Mayneris and Sandra Poncet --  Pamel Bombarda --  Verena Nowak, Christian Schwartz, and Jene Suedekum --  Carlo Altomonte [and 4 others] --  María García-Vega and Elena Huergo --  Roger Smeets and Laura Abramovsky --  Michael Pflüger and Stephan Russek. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262314473 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>International business enterprises.<br/>International trade.<br/>International economic relations.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD2755  / .F576 2014