Autor: Paz Estrella Tolentino

Kevin Ibeh is Professor of Marketing and International Business and Assistant Dean/HOD at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He has published and consulted extensively on firm internationalisation, international entrepreneurship and international business, and is considered a leading authority on newly emerging African Multinationals. Paz Estrella Tolentino is a Lecturer in International Business at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. She received the 1989 Richard N. Farmer prize for the best Ph.D. dissertation on International Business. Her research interests include the theory of the multinational enterprise, emerging market MNEs, and international business strategy on which she has published two books and several journal articles. Odile E.M. Janne is a Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. She holds degrees from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, and the University of Reading, UK, and has been a Research Fellow at Shizuoka University, Japan. Her research interests and publications are in the fields of international business, geography and innovation. Xiaming Liu is Professor in International Business at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. His research interests include foreign direct investment, technology spill over and emerging economies and his articles have appeared in Journal of International Business Studies, Long Range Planning, International Business Review, among others.