| | | List of figures, tables and boxes | | |
| | | Introduction by Ionara Costa and Wilfred Dolfsma and Geert Duysters | | 1 |
| 1 | | Multinationals are multicultural units: some indications from a cross-cultural study by Nantawan Noi Kwanjai and J. Friso den Hertog | | 6 |
| 2 | | The innovativeness of foreign firms in China by Branka Urem and Ludovico Alcorta and Tongliang An | | 23 |
| 3 | | New Europes promise for life sciences by Sergey Filippov and Kalman Kalotay | | 41 |
| 4 | | Facing the trial of internationalizing clinical research to developing countries: evidence from Mexico by Fernando Santiago-Rodriguez | | 58 |
| Intermezzo I | | Do multinationals matter for emerging markets, or vice versa? by Rajneesh Narula | | 75 |
| 5 | | Strategic motivations for international alliances: the Chinese perspective by Tina Saebi and Qinqin Dong | | 78 |
| 6 | | Cross-border investment and economic integration: the case of Guangdong Province and Hong Kong SAR by Naubahar Sharif and Can Huang | | 92 |
| 7 | | The making of national giants: the international expansion of oil companies from Brazil and China by Flavia Carvalho and Andrea Goldstein | | 111 |
| 8 | | Beyond the emission market: Kyoto and the internationalization of firms from the waste industry by Asel Doranova and Geert-Jan Eenhoorn and Ionara Costa | | 127 |
| Intermezzo II | | Emerging knowledge economies by Jojo Jacob and Luc Soete | | 144 |
| 9 | | Changing configuration of alternative energy systems by Radhika Perrot | | 149 |
| 10 | | Serving low-income markets: rethinking multinational corporations strategies by Shuan SadreGhazi and Geert Duysters | | 166 |
| | | Index | | 183 |