From International Business to Intranational Business

Abstract

This chapter argues that international business has much to contribute to intranational business in helping develop a theory of the business enterprise in space. It makes its arguments by articulating four propositions about international business that appear to carry over directly to intranational business. According to the first three propositions, business activities of multiple types are dampened by borders and those that do cross them typically diminish with geographic as well as other types of distance. The fourth proposition supplements these general discussions of the landscape of business with a focus on a specific business application: it works through the case of business strategy by discussing how insights from the international domain can be applied to the intranational domain in that field of business.

Citation

Ghemawat, P. (2015), "From International Business to Intranational Business", Emerging Economies and Multinational Enterprises (Advances in International Management, Vol. 28), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 5-28. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-502720150000028002