Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Introduction: the rise of internationalizing firms from emerging markets; PART 1A THEORY PERSPECTIVES; 1. The many faces of the ever-changing multinational enterprise; 2. Punching above their weight: the sources of competitive advantage for emerging-market multinationals; 3. Explaining the internationalization of emerging-economy multinationals: the relative resource specialization of firm and environment; PART 1B CONCEPTUAL AND EMPIRICAL CONTRIBUTIONS ON EMERGING-MARKET MULTINATIONALS 4. Breakout multinationals: emerging-market multinationals in global value chains5. How institutional distance matters to cross-border mergers and acquisitions by multinational enterprises from emerging economies in OECD countries; 6. Globalization of Indian multinationals: what lies ahead?; 7. Indian multinationals: location choices of overseas mergers and acquisitions; PART II CASE STUDIES ON EMERGING-MARKET MULTINATIONALS; 8. Relative risk in emerging markets for emerging multinationals: the case of Orascom Telecom 9. Dynamic capabilities, managerial mindsets and the outcomes of internationalization: the case of Chinese state-owned enterprises10. South African multinationals in Africa: growth and controversy; 11. Acquisitions as engines of foreign expansion of Russian multinationals; Conclusions and future research directions: lessons learned from the rise of emerging-market multinationals; Index.

This Handbook, compiled by leading scholars of international business, focuses on why emerging market multinationals internationalize, how they do so, what advantages they explore and exploit as they internationalize, and what strategies they implement when competing abroad. Collectively, these contributions offer interesting insight into emerging market multinationals' internationalization drivers, growth processes, and expansion behaviour and underscore how these might be similar to and different from the international expansion of developed country internationalizing firms.