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Part 1 The evolution of international business as an academicdiscipline: international business as an academic discipline, KennethSimmonds; internationalising the business curriculum - obstacles andstrategies, Stefan Robock. Part 2 International business as aninterdisciplinary field of enquiry: the conceptual frontiers of internationalbusiness, Brian Toyne; the economic theory of the firm as the basis for a"core" theory of international production, John Dunning; internationalpolitical economy and MNEs' strategies - new directions for interdisciplinaryresearch, Thomas Brewer. Part 3 Current issues and controversies: a"borderless" world - issues and evidence, George Yip; evolution of thetransnational, Christopher Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal; global strategiesof multinational enterprises, Alan Rugman and Alain Verbeke; an invisiblehistory, a competitive future - women managers in a worldwide economy, NancyAdler and Dafna Izraei; the ties that bond? Mark Casson, Ray Loveridge andSatwinder Singh. Part 4 Future directions in international business andresearch: the compleat executive - the state of international businesseducation and some future directions, Farok Contractor; trends ininternational business research - the next 25 years, Peter Buckley; currentissues in international business - an overview, Stephen Young.