Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction David B. Audretsch PART I GLOBALIZATION AND THE ROLE OF SMEs 1. David B. Audretsch and A. Roy Thurik (2001), ‘What’s New About the New Economy? Sources of Growth in the Managed and Entrepreneurial Economies’ 2. Tomás O. Kohn (1997), ‘Small Firms as International Players’ 3. Benjamin Gomes-Casseres (1997), ‘Alliance Strategies of Small Firms’ PART II SMEs AND GLOBAL STRATEGIES 4. Patricia P. McDougall (1989), ‘International Versus Domestic Entrepreneurship: New Venture Strategic Behavior and Industry Structure’ PART III SMEs AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT 5. Edith Tilton Penrose (1956), ‘Foreign Investment and the Growth of the Firm’ 6. Masataka Fujita (1995), ‘Small and Medium-sized Transnational Corporations: Salient Features’ 7. Peter J. Buckley (1989), ‘Foreign Investment by Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: The Theoretical Background’ 8. Masataka Fujita (1995), ‘Small and Medium-sized Transnational Corporations: Trends and Patterns of Foreign Direct Investment’ PART IV CLUSTERS AND NETWORKS AS SOURCES OF SME COMPETITIVENESS 9. Michael E. Porter (2000), ‘Locations, Clusters, and Company Strategy’ 10. Hideki Yamawaki (2002), ‘The Evolution and Structure of Industrial Clusters in Japan’ PART V EXPORT STRATEGIES OF SMEs 11. Joachim Wagner (1995), ‘Exports, Firm Size, and Firm Dynamics’ 12. Bee Yan Aw, Geeta Batra and Mark J. Roberts (2001), ‘Firm Heterogeneity and Export-Domestic Price Differentials: A Study of Taiwanese Electronics Products’ 13. Joachim Wagner (2001), ‘A Note on the Firm Size-Export Relationship’ PART VI SMEs AND THE INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT OF LABOR 14. Annalee Saxenian (2001), ‘The Role of Immigrant Entrepreneurs in New Venture Creation’ 15. Anuradha Basu (1998), ‘An Exploration of Entrepreneurial Activity among Asian Small Businesses in Britain’ PART VII SMEs AND TRANSNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER 16. Lorraine Eden, Edward Levitas and Richard J. Martinez (1997), ‘The Production, Transfer and Spillover of Technology: Comparing Large and Small Multinationals as Technology Producers’ 17. Peter J. Buckley (1997), ‘International Technology Transfer by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises’ PART VIII THE DEVELOPING COUNTRY CONTEXT 18. Brian Levy (1991), ‘Transaction Costs, the Size of Firms and Industrial Policy: Lessons from a Comparative Case Study of the Footwear Industry in Korea and Taiwan’ 19. Mona Haddad, Jaime de Melo and Brendan Horton (1996), ‘Morocco, 1984–89: Trade Liberalization, Exports, and Industrial Performance’ 20. Jeffrey B. Nugent and Seung-Jae Yhee (2002), ‘Small and Medium Enterprises in Korea: Achievements, Constraints and Policy Issues’ 21. Bee Yan Aw and Geeta Batra (1999), ‘Wages, Firm Size, and Wage Inequality: How Much Do Exports Matter?’ PART IX POLICY ISSUES 22. Zoltan J. Acs, Randall Morck, J. Myles Shaver and Bernard Yeung (1997), ‘The Internationalization of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Policy Perspective’ 23. Steven J. Davis and Magnus Henrekson (1997), ‘Industrial Policy, Employer Size, and Economic Performance in Sweden’ 24. Ingrid Verheul, Sander Wennekers, David Audretsch and Roy Thurik (2002), ‘An Eclectic Theory of Entrepreneurship: Policies, Institutions and Culture’ Name Index

'. . . an excellent and timely collection of both conceptual and empirical papers on the subject of the role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the process of globalization. . . this book presents a well-balanced collection of readings on SMEs internationalization and public policy.'