1. The Costs of Crossing Borders in the Global Economy; Sarianna Lundan PART I: BEHAVIOURAL ASSUMPTIONS IN THE THEORY OF THE TNC 2. A Transaction Cost Theory of the TNC; Jean-François Hennart 3. Bounded Reliability: A New Behavioral Foundation for MNE Governance (Reprint from JIBS 2009); Alain Verbeke and Nathan S. Greidanus 4. The 'Parenting Advantage' and Innovation Processes in the Multinational Firm – Does Top Management Mess Things Up?; Mats Forsgren PART II: THE FOOTPRINT OF THE TNC: THE ROLE OF BORDERS AND DISTANCE 5. Distance-related Barriers and the Pattern of Internationalisation of Finnish MNEs; Sarianna Lundan 6. Looking into the Innovation Process: How International is Innovation in Multinational Companies?; Jannika Mattes 7. Locations of Corporate Headquarters in Europe: Between Territorial Embeddedness and Transnational Dynamics; Martin Heidenreich and Nina Baur PART III: MANAGING CROSS-BORDER INTERDEPENDENCIES 8. Intra-firm Trade Law - Contract Enforcement and Dispute Resolution in TNCs; Gralf-Peter Calliess and Stephan von Harder 9. Competence Building in Transnational Companies: The Role of Regional Headquarters in Subsidiary Coordination; Jörg Freiling and Sven Laudien 10. The Lifecycle of a Population of Regional Headquarters: An Ecological Analysis; Perttu Kähäri and Rebecca Piekkari PART IV: TNCS AS INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURS 11. Accounting Firms - Global Spread with Limited Transnationalisation; Jochen Zimmermann and Jan-Christoph Volckmer 12. Operationalising the UN Business and Human Rights Framework: The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights and Due Diligence; Peter Muchlinski 13. The Changing Role of Business in Global Society: Implications for Governance, Democracy, and the Theory of the Firm; Andreas Georg Scherer, Guido Palazzo and Hannah Trittin
