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Students will be expected to be familiar with the three Readings.
During the class, they will be expected to critique these Readings: ie to explore what is strong and what is weak in the papers. The Readings are:

Mayrhofer, Brewster, Morley and Ledolter. Hearing a Different Drummer: evidence of convergence in European HRM?

Stavrou, Brewster Charalambous. Human Resource Management as a Competitive Tool in Europe

Jokinen, Brewster and Suutari Career capital during international work experiences: contrasting self-initiated expatriate experiences and assigned expatriation

Prof. John CANTWELL

Readings

Athreye, S. and Cantwell, J.A. (2007) Creating competition? Globalisation and the emergence of new technology producers, Research Policy, 36, (2): 209-226.

Ernst, D. (2002) Global production networks and the changing geography of innovation systems: implications for developing countries, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 11 (6): 497-523.

Florida, Richard (2002) The economic geography of talent, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 92 (4): 743-755.

Kumar, S. and Russell, R.R. (2002) Technological change, technological catch-up and capital deepening: relative contributions to growth and convergence, American Economic Review, 92: 527-548.

Makino, S., Lau, C.-M. and Yeh, R.-S. (2002) Asset exploitation versus asset seeking: implications for location choice of foreign direct investment from Newly Industrialised Economies, Journal of International Business Studies, 33: 403-421.

Prof. Philip COOKE

Readings

P. Cooke Global bioregions; knowledge domains, capabilities and innovation system networks (2006) Industry & Innovation, 13, 437-458

P. Cooke Regionally asymmetric knowledge capabilities and open innovation : exploring *Globalisation 2* a new model of industry organisation (2005), Research Policy, 34,1128-1149

P. Cooke Rational drug design, the knowledge value chain and bioscience megacentres (2005), Cambridge Journal of Economics, 29, 325-341

P. Cooke Regional knowledge capabilities, embeddedness of firms and industry organisation: bioscience megacentres and economic geography (2004), European Planning Studies, 12, 625-641

Against 'Placeless Foodscapes': Agro-Food Contests in Global Contexts

Books

Storper, M. & Salais, R. (1997) The Worlds of Production; the Action Frameworks of the Economy, Cambridge, Harvard University Press

Storper, M. (1997) The Regional World: territorial Development in a Global Economy, London, Guildford

Prof. Mats FORSGREN

Readings

Subsidiary Embeddedness and Control in the Multinational Corporation

The strategic impact of external networks: subsidiary performance and competence development in the multinational corporation

Balancing subsidiary influence in the federative MNC:a business network view

Prof. Martin HAEMMIG

Readings

The Economic Importance of Venture Capital Backed Companies to the U.S. Economy

The Globalization of the Venture Capital Industry

Global Venture Capital Insights Report 2006

Venture capital and the structure of capital markets
Banks versus stock markets

Knowledge, institutions, and foreign entry: the internationalization of u.s. venture capital firms

The determinants of venture capital funding: evidence across countries

How Do Legal Differences and Learning Affect Financial Contracts?

Org Science reviews on Chinese IPO paper

Legitimating the Environmentally Challenged: Chinese Entrepreneurial IPOs in U.S. Equity Markets

Israel and the Virtues of necessity

Sharing the idea The emergence of global innovation networks

Global Trends in Venture Capital 2006 Survey

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