International Business in the Information and Digital Age

This volume compiles 16 chapters on the interaction between multinational enterprises and the information and digital age and new opportunities and challenges that the information and digital age have created for multinational enterprises. Researchers from Brazil, Europe, the US, and China address trends, conceptualizations, and theoretical developments related to international production, information and communication technologies, and the effects of global connectivity on knowledge complexity; entrepreneurial strategies like blockchain ventures, e-commerce usage, internationalization strategies of Chinese digital platform firms, and business-to-business social media; aspects related to employees, services, and value chains, including smart services and additive manufacturing; and the regulatory context and its impact on the internationalization strategies of companies, clusters, and networks, such as Amazon and Alibaba, Italian companies, and science parks. The information and digital age is shaped by a small number of multinational enterprises from a limited number of countries. This volume covers the latest insight from the International Business discipline on prevailing trends in business model evolution. It also discusses critical issues of regulation in the new information and digital space.

• | Author: Alain Verbeke, Rob van Tulder, Lucia Piscitello
• | Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• | Publication Date: Nov 16, 2018
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781787563261
• | ISBN-10: 178756326X