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You are working for a company which is planning to invest in a foreign country. 
Management has requested a report regarding the attractiveness of alternate countries based 
on the potential return of foreign direct investment, 
by applying the following theories of international investment to access country attractiveness. 

a) Dynamic Capabilities

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1) Please do attach the articles /journal references by using Havard System.
    (Minimum 10 articles/journal)

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•    Turnitin plagiarism check must less than 5%

Recommendation Textbook;

1.International  Business: The Challenge of Globalization. 13th Edition ( 2012)
      Ball, Geringer, Mcnett & Minor . Mcgraw-Hill.
2.Cavusgil, S. Tamer, Gary Knight, John Riesenberger (2014), International Business: The New Realities, 3/E ISBN-13: 9780133254204 Prentice Hall
3.Maidment, Fred H, (2013), Annual Editions: International Business, 17/e, 17th Edition, ISBN-13 9780073528755, McGraw Hill
4.    Hill, Charles W. L. (2013), International Business, 9th Edition, ISBN-13 9780077630799, McGraw Hill

Text Books
1.    Cavusgil, S. Tamer, Gary Knight, John Riesenberger (2014), International Business: The New Realities, 3/E ISBN-13: 9780133254204 Prentice Hall
2.    Maidment, Fred H, (2013), Annual Editions: International Business, 17/e, 17th Edition, ISBN-13 9780073528755, McGraw Hill
3.    Hill, Charles W. L. (2013), International Business, 9th Edition, ISBN-13 9780077630799, McGraw Hill
4.    Geringer, Michael, Michael S Minor, Jeanne M. McNett, (2012), M: International Business, 1st Edition, ISBN-13 9780078029370, McGraw Hill
5.    Hebron, Lui, John F. Stack, Jr., (2011), Globalization, 2/E, ISBN-13: 9780205779703, Pearson 
6.    Adler, N. (2008). International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior. Prentice Hall
7.    Browaeys, M-J and Price, R. (2008). Understanding Cross-cultural Management FT Prentice HallJ.M. (2008) International Business: The Challenge of Global Competition. New York: Irwin/McGraw-Hill.  
8.    Daniels, J., Radebaugh, L. and Sullivan, D., (2007). International Business: Environments and Operations. Pearson Prentice Hall.
9.    Adler, N. (2008). International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior. Prentice Hall
10.    Browaeys, M-J and Price, R. (2008). Understanding Cross-cultural Management FT Prentice Hall
11.    French, R. (2007). Cross-Cultural Management in Work Organisations CIPD



Text Books
12.    Cavusgil, S. Tamer, Gary Knight, John Riesenberger (2014), International Business: The New Realities, 3/E ISBN-13: 9780133254204 Prentice Hall
13.    Maidment, Fred H, (2013), Annual Editions: International Business, 17/e, 17th Edition, ISBN-13 9780073528755, McGraw Hill
14.    Hill, Charles W. L. (2013), International Business, 9th Edition, ISBN-13 9780077630799, McGraw Hill
15.    Geringer, Michael, Michael S Minor, Jeanne M. McNett, (2012), M: International Business, 1st Edition, ISBN-13 9780078029370, McGraw Hill
16.    Hebron, Lui, John F. Stack, Jr., (2011), Globalization, 2/E, ISBN-13: 9780205779703, Pearson 
17.    Adler, N. (2008). International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior. Prentice Hall
18.    Browaeys, M-J and Price, R. (2008). Understanding Cross-cultural Management FT Prentice HallJ.M. (2008) International Business: The Challenge of Global Competition. New York: Irwin/McGraw-Hill.  
19.    Daniels, J., Radebaugh, L. and Sullivan, D., (2007). International Business: Environments and Operations. Pearson Prentice Hall.
20.    Adler, N. (2008). International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior. Prentice Hall
21.    Browaeys, M-J and Price, R. (2008). Understanding Cross-cultural Management FT Prentice Hall
22.    French, R. (2007). Cross-Cultural Management in Work Organisations CIPD
Journals
1.    Ricart, Enright, Ghemawat, Hart and Khanna.  (2004).  “New Frontiers in International Strategy”, Journal of International Business Studies  (35):175-200.
2.    Susan Feinberg and Anil Gupta. (2004).  “Knowledge Spillovers and the Assignment of R&D Responsbilities to Foreign Subsidiaries”, Strategic Management Journal, vol 25.
3.    Cantwell, J.A. and Santangelo, G.D. (2002), "The new geography of corporate research in information and communications technology (ICT)", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, vol. 12, nos. 1-2, pp. 163-197.
4.    Birkinshaw, Julian, Robert Nobel and Jonas Ridderstrale.  (2002). “Knowledge as a Contingency Variable: Do the Characteristics of Knowledge Predict MNE structure?”  Organization Science May
5.    Song, Jaeyong.  (2002) “Firm capabilities and technology ladders: Sequential foreign direct investment”  Strategic Management Journal; 23, 3:p191
6.    Kogut, B. G. Walker, and J. Anand.  (2002). “Agency and Institutions: National Divergences in Diversification Behavior.” Organization Science.
7.    Dunning, J.H. (2001), "The eclectic (OLI) paradigm of international production: past, present and future", International Journal of the Economics of Business, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 173-190;
8.    Cantwell, J.A. and Narula, R. (2001), "The eclectic paradigm in the global economy", International Journal of the Economics of Business, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 155-172;
9.    Tolentino, P.E.E. (2001), "From a theory to a paradigm: examining the eclectic paradigm as a framework in international economics", International Journal of the Economics of Business, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 191-209;
10.    Ozawa, T. and Castello, S. (2001), "Toward an 'international business' paradigm of endogenous growth: multinationals and governments as co-endogenisers", International Journal of the Economics of Business, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 211-228;
11.    Lundan, S. and Hagedoorn, J. (2001), "Alliances, acquisitions and multinational advantage", International Journal of the Economics of Business, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 229-242.

12.    Madhok, A. and Phene, A. (2001), "The co-evolutional advantage: strategic management theory and the eclectic paradigm", International Journal of the Economics of Business, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 243-256
13.    Guisinger, S. (2001), "From OLI to OLMA: incorporating higher levels of environmental and structural complexity into the eclectic paradigm", International Journal of the Economics of Business, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 257-272;
14.    Andersson, U. and Forsgren, M. (2000), "In search of centre of excellence: network embeddedness and subsidiary roles in multinational corporations", Management International Review, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 329-350.
15.    Gupta, Anil and Govindarajan, Vijay.  (2000). “Knowledge Flows Within Multinational Corporations”.  Strategic Management Journal.
16.    Cantwell, J.A. and Piscitello, L. (2000), "Accumulating technological competence: its changing impact upon corporate diversification and internationalisation", Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 21-51.

Text Books
17.    Guirdham, M (2005). Communicating across cultures at work. Palgrave Macmillan
18.    Hofstede, G. (2005). Cultures and Organizations McGraw Hill
19.    Jandt, F. (2004). An Introduction to Intercultural Communication: Identities in a Global Community Sage
20.    Mead, R. (2005). International Management: Cross-cultural Dimensions. Blackwell
21.    Perkins, S. & Shortland, S. (2006). Strategic International HRM - choices and consequences in multinational people management London: Kogan Page.
22.    Hood, N., (2006). The Multinational Subsidiary: Management, Economic Development and Public Policy. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
23.    Gannon, M, and Newman, K. (2006). The Blackwell Handbook of Cross-cultural Management Blackwell
24.    Archer, C., (2006). International Oganizations. London: Routledge.
25.    Hofstede, G. (2006) Culture’s Consequences: International Differences in Work Related Values Sage
26.    Schneider, S. and Barsoux, J-L (2006) Managing Across Cultures. Prentice Hall
27.    Trompenaars, F. and Hampden-Turner, C. (2007) Riding the Waves of Culture; Understanding cultural diversity in Business. Nicholas Brealey
28.    Ward, C., Bochner, S. and Furnham, A. (2007) The Psychology of Culture Shock Routledge.
29.    Schneider, S. and Barsoux, J-L (2007) Managing Across Cultures. Prentice Hall
30.    Calori, R., Atamer, T. And Nunes, P., (2007). The Dynamics of International Competition: From Practice to Theory. London: Sage.
31.    Dunning, J.H., (2006). The Globalisation of Business. NY: Routledge.
32.    Held, D., McGrew, A. Goldblatt, D. and Perraton, J., (2006). Global Transformations. Cambridge: Polity Press.
33.    Hirst, P., and Thompson, G., (2006). Globalization in question : the international economy and the possibilities of governance . Cambridge: Polity Press.
34.    Boyer, R., and Durand, J. P., (2006). After Fordism. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
35.    Ball, D. A., McCulloch, W. H., Jr., Geringer, J. M. Minor, M. S. & McNett, Carroll, S.J & Gannon, M.J., (2007). Ethical Dimensions of International Management. Thousand Oaks CA., Sage Publications. 

Journals
36.    Cantwell, J.A. and Piscitello, L. (1999), "The emergence of corporate international networks for the accumulation of dispersed technological competences", Management International Review, vol. 39, Special Issue no. 1, pp. 123-147.
37.    Oxley, Joanne. (1999) “Institutional environment and the mechanisms of governance: the impact of intellectual property protection on the structure of inter-firm alliances”,  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 38:283-309.
38.    Cantwell, J.A. and Fai, F.M. (1999), "Firms as the source of innovation and growth: the evolution of technological competence", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 331-366.
39.    Cantwell, J.A. (1999), "Innovation in the global economy", in D. Archibugi, J. Howells and J. Michie (eds.), Innovation Policy in a Global Economy, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 225-241. 
40.    Pearce, R.D. (1999), "Decentralised R&D and strategic competitiveness: globalised approaches to generation and use of technology in multinational enterprises (MNEs)", Research Policy, vol. 28, nos. 2-3, pp. 157-178.
41.    Birkinshaw, J. and Hood, N. (1998), "Multinational subsidiary development: capability evolution and charter change in foreign-owned subsidiary companies", Academy of Management Review, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 773-795.
42.    Dunning, J.H. (1998), "Location and the multinational enterprise: a neglected factor?", Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 45-66.
43.    Mowery, D.C., Oxley, J.E. and Silverman, B.S. (1998), “Technological overlap and interfirm cooperation: implications for the resource-based view of the firm”, Research Policy, Vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 507-523.
44.    Loasby, B.J. (1998), “The organisation of capabilities”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 139-160.
45.    Teece, D.J., Pisano, G. and Shuen, A. (1997), "Dynamic capabilities and strategic management", Strategic Management Review, vol 18, no. 7, pp. 509-533.
46.    Cantwell, J.A. and Barrera, M.P. (1998), “The localisation of corporate technological trajectories in the interwar cartels:  Cooperative learning versus an exchange of knowledge”, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 257-292.
47.    Rangan, Subramanian (1998) “Do multinationals operate flexibly?” Journal of International Business Studies; 29, 2: 217-237
48.    Tsai, Wenpin and Sumatra Ghoshal.  (1998). “Social Capital and Value Creation: the Role of Intra-Firm Networks”, Academy of Management Journal. 41(4)
49.    Hodgson, G.M. (1998), “Competence and contract in the theory of the firm”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 179-202