Sjoerd Beugelsdijk is Professor of International Business at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Steven Brakman is Professor of Globalization in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Groningen. Hans van Ees is Professor of Global Economics and Management at the University of Groningen. Harry Garretsen is Professor of International Economics at the Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University.

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Despite their common roots, international economics (IE) and international business (IB) have developed into two distinct fields of study. Economists have directed their efforts at formalizing the workings of international trade and investment at the macroeconomic level; business scholars have relied more on data-driven conceptual narratives than mathematical tools. But the recent focus of IE literature on firm heterogeneity suggests that IE would benefit from IB analyses of the behavior and organization of the internationalizing firm. The contributions to this volume investigate ways that insights from IB can enrich IE research in firm heterogeneity.

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Essays by leading scholars suggest that insights from international business could enrich firm heterogeneity research in international economics.