FRONT COVER -- PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND META-KNOWLEDGE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- EDITORS' BIOGRAPHIES -- EDITORS' INTRODUCTION -- PART I -- INTRODUCTION TO PART I: BOOZ & CO./STRATEGY+BUSINESS EMINENT SCHOLAR IN INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT 2012 -- FROM THE AMERICAN CHALLENGE TO THE DRAGONS AT YOUR DOOR: FORTY YEARS OF WORK ON THE THEORY OF THE MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE -- HOW I BECAME INTERESTED IN THE THEORY OF THE MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE -- MY 1982 PHD THESIS: A THEORY OF MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE -- FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS: JOINT VENTURES AND THE BUNDLING MODEL -- PERFORMANCE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INTERNALIZATION THEORY AS THE GENERAL THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: JEAN-FRANÇOIS HENNART'S CONTRIBUTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- MNE-CENTRIC THEORIES -- THE ASSET BUNDLING APPROACH -- IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT -- MNE CONTROL OVER FOREIGN OPERATIONS -- ACQUISITIONS AS A FOREIGN ENTRY MODE -- INTERNATIONAL ENTRY MODE CHOICE AND NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- JEAN-FRANÇOIS HENNART: TYPES OF RESEARCH, QUALITIES AND CONTRIBUTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- A TYPOLOGY OF HENNART'S RESEARCH -- HENNART'S ACADEMIC QUALITIES -- HENNART'S CONTRIBUTIONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART II -- INTRODUCTION TO PART II: DO WE DO SCIENCE? PHILOSOPHY AND KNOWLEDGE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT -- THE DISTINCTIVENESS OF IB/IM SCHOLARSHIP -- DO WE MEET THE MINIMUM STANDARDS OF SCIENCE? -- MAKING IB/IM MORE SCIENTIFIC -- A SMALL BEGINNING -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- INHERITED PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE? ECONOMICS AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RESEARCH -- INTRODUCTION -- A BRIEF TOUR OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS.

ECONOMICS AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RESEARCH -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE ROAD TO RELEVANCE -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- WHY BASELINE MODELLING IS BETTER THAN NULL-HYPOTHESIS TESTING: EXAMPLES FROM INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RESEARCH -- INTRODUCTION -- WHY ARCHIBALD LOST FAITH IN POPPER'S IDEAS -- BASELINE MODELLING -- SIX USEFUL TYPES OF BASELINE MODELS -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ONTOLOGY AND IB: RE-IMAGINING THE MULTINATIONAL -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE PHILOSOPHY OF TURNING POINTS: A CASE OF DE-INTERNATIONALIZATION -- INTRODUCTION -- DE-INTERNATIONALIZATION EMERGING -- THE CONCEPT OF A TURNING POINT -- IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- META-KNOWLEDGE -- DO WE REALLY UNDERSTAND A RESEARCH TOPIC? FINDING ANSWERS THROUGH META-ANALYSES -- INTRODUCTION -- THE RATIONALE OF META-ANALYSIS -- THE STATISTICAL REVIEW OF A LITERATURE -- LIMITATIONS AND CRITIQUES ON META-ANALYSIS -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- META-ANALYTIC RESEARCH IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- META-ANALYSIS IN IB/IM RESEARCH -- REVIEW OF META-ANALYTIC STUDIES ON INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS -- FINDINGS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RESEARCH: UNDERSTANDING PAST PATHS TO DESIGN FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- METHOD -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PROGRESS, MATURITY OR EXHAUSTION? SOURCES AND MODES OF THEORIZING ON THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY - PERFORMANCE RELATIONSHIP (1990-2011) -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES -- MANNER OF THEORY REFINEMENT AND COMBINATION -- DISCUSSION -- RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES.

APPENDIX: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES: KEYWORDS AND REPRESENTATIVE WORKS -- WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE SUCCESS AND FAILURE OF INTERNATIONAL JOINT VENTURES? IN SEARCH OF RELEVANCE AND HOLISM -- INTRODUCTION -- REVIEWS OF FINDINGS REGARDING IJV PERFORMANCE -- SUMMARY OF THE CRITICISM OF IJV PERFORMANCE RESEARCH -- VOICES IN THE RESEARCH WILDERNESS - WHY CALLS FOR CHANGE STILL GO UNHEEDED -- REFERENCES -- WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT GOING GLOBAL EARLY? LIABILITIES OF FOREIGNNESS AND EARLY INTERNATIONALIZING FIRMS -- INTRODUCTION -- INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION -- SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW -- ANTECEDENT FIRM CHARACTERISTICS AND EARLY INTERNATIONALIZING FIRMS -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND ITS IMPLICATIONS TO DOMINANT DESIGN THEORY -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- METHOD -- THE CEMENT INDUSTRY IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES -- ANALYSIS OF THE RESULTS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT POST-MERGER INTEGRATION FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL ACQUISITIONS? -- INTRODUCTION -- KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER IN POST-MERGER INTEGRATION FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL ACQUISITIONS -- TWO ILLUSTRATIVE CASE STUDIES -- CONCLUDING DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES.