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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.

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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

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´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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