Comprised of chapters that explore the impact of the global crisis on emerging economies and firms and their response to it. The ways in which the leading emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China are dealing with the challenges of the crisis are complemented by the methods applied by countries and firms in Central and Eastern Europe.

'By linking the global economic crisis with the inward and outward foreign investment of emerging economies, this book uniquely combines cyclical and secular trends that are of great importance economically as well as geopolitically. It emphasizes the importance of context in defining how emerging economies and firms deal with the challenges of the global crisis. The volume is an essential read for the corporate and government decision maker and for the serious student.' - Oded Shenkar, Professor of Management and Human Resources, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, USA

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FABIO BERTONI Tenured Assistant Professor at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, Italy KATARINA BLOMKVIST Assistant Professor of International Business at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden THOMAS BORGHOFF Senior Lecturer in the School of Marketing and International Business at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand LOUIS BRENNAN Professor at the School of Business and Director of the Institute for International Integration Studies at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland RIAN DROGENDIJK Associate Professor of International Business at the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden STEFANO ELIA Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy SERGEY FILIPPOV Assistant Professor of Innovation Management at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands FRANÇOISE HAY ANDREJA JAKLI? Assistant Professor and Researcher at the Centre for International Relations at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia JORMA LARIMO Professor of International Marketing at the Faculty of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, Finland MARINA LATUKHA Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University, Russia GERALDINE MCALLISTER Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University, USA CHRISTIAN MILELLI KRZYSZTOF OB?ÓJ Distinguished Professor of Strategic Management and holds chairs ofthe Strategic Management Departments at the School of Management of the University of Warsaw and Kozminski University, Poland ANDREI PANIBRATOV Professor of Strategic and International Management at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg University, Russia LARISSA RABBIOSI Assistant Professor at the Department of Strategic Management and Globalization at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark KARL SAUVANT Founding Executive Director of the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, Co-Director of the Millennium Cities Initiative, and Guest Professor at Nankai University, China YUNNAN SHI MARJAN SVETLI?I? Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia RAKHI VERMA TIIA VISSAK Senior Researcher of International Business at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Tartu, Estonia ALEKSANDRA W?SOWSKA Assistant Professor at the School of Management, University of Warsaw, Poland WITOLD WILINSKI Lecturer at World Economy Faculty in the Warsaw School of Economics, Poland XIAOTIAN ZHANG Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu, Estonia

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List of Tables List of Figures Notes on Contributors The Global Crisis and the World: The Cases of Emerging and Developed Economies; M.Marinov & S.Marinova Foreign Direct Investment by Emerging Economy Multinationals: Coping with the Global Crisis; G.McAllister & K.P.Sauvant Outward FDI from the BRICs: Trends and Patterns of Acquisitions in Advanced Countries; F.Bertoni , S.Elia & L.Rabbiosi Internationalization of Central and Eastern European Countries and their Firms in the Global Crisis; W.Wilinski Information and Communication Technologies in the Globalisation of Small and Medium-sized Firms during the Global Crisis: An Empirical Study in China, India, New Zealand, and Singapore; T.Borghoff An Analysis of Macroeconomic Determinants of Indian Outward Foreign Direct Investment; R.Verma & L.Brennan Influence of Cultural Distance on Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment; K.Blomkvist & R.Drogendijk Russia's Emerging Multinational Firms in the Global Crisis; S.Filippov Internationalization of Chinese Car Manufacturers; F.Hay , C.Milelli & Y.Shi Location Determinants of Polish Outward Foreign Direct Investment and the Impact of the Global Crisis; A.W?sowska & K.Ob?ój Reactions of Slovene Multinational Firms to the Global Crisis; M.Svetli?i? & A.Jakli? The Impact of the Global Crisis on the Internationalization of Estonian Firms: A Case Study; T.Vissak Servicing Local Customers for Entering Foreign Markets: Internationalization of Russian IT Firms; M.Latukha & A.Panibratov Longitudinal Internationalization Processes of Born Globals: Three Chinese Cases of Radical Change and the Global Crisis; X.Zhang & J.Larimo