Theories and Paradigms of International Business Activity: The Selected Essays of John H. Dunning (John H. Dunning Essays)

This volume contains a selection of John Dunning's best known writings on the theory of international business activity. Spanning more than three decades, the 16 contributions trace the evolution of his thoughts and ideas as an economist, from his first article on the determinants of international production, published in 1973, to his most recent essay on relational assets, networks and global business activity completed in 2002. The volume gives particular prominence to the author's eclectic paradigm, which he first promulgated at a Nobel symposium on the international allocation of economic activity in 1976. Since then, he has written over 60 articles, pamphlets and chapters in books which have extended, refined and updated his theorizing on the interface between trade, FDI and MNE activity, in the light of the changing characteristics of the world economy and advances in international business scholarship.