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Most contributions to a handbook are necessarily retrospective, but there is also scope for a prospective view of the kind offered in this chapter. In retrospect there have been significant theoretical achievements in international business (IB) over the past 40 years, but the prospects are not so good.
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Casson, M. (2004). Strategic Complexity in International Business. In: The Challenge of International Business. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230508644_3
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