Driving Global Businesses, Fall 2015
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5. Select the appropriate year and volume (e.g. Spring/Summer77, Vol. 8 Issue 1) to find all the articles
published in that issue.
Ask Iiris if you don’t know how to use the search engines! It’s good to learn how to use them because you
will need to find articles throughout your studies, especially when working on your Master’s thesis 
Lecture 4
Johanson, J., & Vahlne, J. E. (1977). The internationalization process of the firm-a model of knowledge
development and increasing foreign market commitments. Journal of international business studies, vol. 8,
no. 1, pp. 23-32. Link
Johanson, J., & Vahlne, J. E. (2009). The Uppsala internationalization process model revisited: From liability
of foreignness to liability of outsidership, Journal of International Business Studies, vol. 40, no. 9, pp. 14111431. Link
Marks, M. L. and Mirvis, P. H. (2001): Making Mergers and Acquisitions Work: Strategic and Psychological
Preparation, The Academy of Management Executive, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 80-94 Link
Lecture 6
Cavusgil, S. T. and Knight, G. (2015). The born global firm: An entrepreneurial and capabilities perspective
on early and rapid internationalization, Journal of International Business Studies, 46: 3-16. Link
Lecture 7
Handfield, R.B. and Nichols Jr., E. L.. (2004), ‘Key issues in global supply base management’. Industrial
Marketing Management, 33, pp. 29-35. Link
Pagell, M., Wu, Z. (2009), ‘Building a more complete theory of sustainable supply chain management using
case studies of 10 exemplars’. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 45 (2), pp. 37-56. Link
Swartz, J. (2010), ‘Timberland’s CEO on Standing Up to 65,000 Angry Activists’. Harvard Business Review,
88 (9), pp. 39-43. Link
Lecture 8
Luo, Y. and Tung, R.L. (2007). International expansion of emerging market enterprises: a springboard
perspective. Journal of International Business Studies, 38, 481–498. Link
Ramamurti, R. 2012. Competing with emerging-market multinationals. Business Horizons, 55, 1 (May 2012):
241-249. Link
Lecture 10
Almeida, P., & Phene, A. (2004) Subsidiaries and knowledge creation: The influence of the MNC and host
country on innovation. Strategic Management Journal, 25(8–9): 847–864. Link
Andersson, U., Forsgren, M. & Holm, U. (2007) Balancing subsidiary influence in the federative MNC: A
business network view. Journal of International Business Studies, 38: 802-818. Link