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| List of figures | |
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| List of tables | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Key themes of this book | |
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| The empirical contribution of the book | |
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| The regional sales data in the book | |
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| The regional and global case studies in the book | |
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| Summary of this book | |
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| Regional multinationals: the data | |
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| Methodology | |
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| The intra-regional nature of the world's largest firms | |
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| Intra-regional sales by industry categorization | |
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| Intra-regional sales by region | |
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| Updated data | |
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| Two regional strategy frameworks | |
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| Basic analysis of regionalization | |
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| The CSA/FSA matrix | |
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| The regional matrix | |
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| Matrix strategies of large MNEs | |
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| The integration/responsiveness matrix | |
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| The regional strategy matrix | |
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| Examples of the regional strategy matrix | |
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| Appendix to chapter 3 | |
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| Regional and global strategies of multinational enterprises | |
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| The triad power concept | |
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| Empirical analysis of triad power | |
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| The meaning of regional strategies | |
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| Implications for new analysis | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Retail multinationals and globalization | |
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| Theory | |
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| Empirical evidence | |
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| The home-triad base of MNE retail activity | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Banking multinationals | |
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| Barriers to global expansion in the banking industry | |
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| Size and international scope | |
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| Cases | |
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| Pharmaceutical and chemical multinationals | |
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| Barriers to global strategy in the pharmaceutical industry | |
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| Case studies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Automotive multinationals | |
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| Barriers to global expansion in the automotive industry | |
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| Cases | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Profiles of leading multinational enterprises | |
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| Home-region cases | |
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| Bi-regional cases | |
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| Global cases | |
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| Host-region cases | |
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| "Near miss" global cases | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Analysis of the regional and global strategies of large firms | |
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| The regional matrix and the large firms | |
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| A model of multi-regional strategy and structure | |
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| Regional organizations: strategy and structure | |
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| A regional, not a transnational solution | |
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| Revisiting the transnational solution cases | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Regional multinationals and government policy | |
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| Regional, not global, business and trade agreements | |
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| Regional economic determinism in the triad | |
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| Security and regional US energy supply | |
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| Implications of regionalization for business-government relations | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Regional multinationals: the new research agenda | |
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| Regionalization and new theory | |
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| Regional or global theory | |
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| Implications for MNE theory | |
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| Implications of regionalization for business strategy | |
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| Implications of regionalization for society | |
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| The regional data are robust | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The 500 companies with triad percent sales, alphabetical, 2001 | |
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| Company notes | |
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| Case references | |
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| Academic references | |
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| Author index | |
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| General index | |