Introduction / Ionara Costa, Wilfred Dolfsma and Geert Duysters
1. Multinationals are multicultural units: some indications from a cross-cultural study / Nantawan Noi Kwanjai and J. Friso den Hertog
2. innovativeness of foreign firms in China / Branka Urem, Ludovico Alcorta and Tongliang An
3. New Europe's promise for life sciences / Sergey Filippov and Kálmán Kalotay
4. Facing the trial of internationalizing clinical research to developing countries: evidence from Mexico / Fernando Santiago-Rodriguez
Intermezzo I. Do multinationals matter for emerging markets, or vice versa? / Rajneesh Narula
5. Strategic motivations for international alliances: the Chinese perspective / Tina Saebi and Qinqin Dong
6. Cross-border investment and economic integration: the case of Guangdong Province and Hong Kong SAR / Naubahar Sharif and Can Huang
7. The 'making of' national giants: the international expansion of oil companies from Brazil and China / Flavia Carvalho and Andrea Goldstein
8. Beyond the emission market: Kyoto and the internationalization of firms from the waste industry / Asel Doranova, Geert-Jan Eenhoorn and Ionara Costa
Intermezzo II. Emerging knowledge economies / Jojo Jacob and Luc Soete
9. Changing configuration of alternative energy systems / Radhika Perrot
10. Serving low-income markets: rethinking multinational corporations' strategies / Shuan SadreGhazi and Geert Duysters.
