The early research on multinational enterprises usually relied on traditional
economic theory or relatively simple but powerful theories developed in the
field of international business. They were developed to help us understand why
firms entered international markets.
However, as the field of international management has developed further, with
more scholars from adjacent disciplines conducting research on issues of
importance to international markets and multinational firms, newer, more diverse
and complex theoretical perspectives have been developed. The present volume
involves a series of invited papers focused partly on Professor Doz??'s recent
work and on other newer and important theoretical perspectives on the
multinational enterprise. These works are authored by