TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 39, Issue 2 (March 2008)

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Editorials

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief FREE

Lorraine Eden Editor-in-Chief

J Int Bus Stud 39: 177-179; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400352

From the Editors: what makes a study sufficiently international? FREE

Rosalie L Tung and Arjen van Witteloostuijn Area Editors

J Int Bus Stud 39: 180-183; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400351

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Articles

Reassessing (home-)regionalisation

Thomas Osegowitsch and André Sammartino

J Int Bus Stud 39: 184-196; advance online publication, January 10, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400345

Regional diversification and firm performance

Gongming Qian, Lee Li, Ji Li and Zhengming Qian

J Int Bus Stud 39: 197-214; advance online publication, January 10, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400346

The regional nature of Japanese multinational business

Simon Collinson and Alan M Rugman

J Int Bus Stud 39: 215-230; advance online publication, January 3, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400347

Internalization and experience: Japanese banks' international expansion, 1980–1998

Lihong Qian and Andrew Delios

J Int Bus Stud 39: 231-248; advance online publication, September 20, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400317

Strategic investments by US firms in transition economies

Donna L Paul and Rossitza B Wooster

J Int Bus Stud 39: 249-266; advance online publication, November 15, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400334

International entrepreneurship and geographic location: an empirical examination of new venture internationalization

Stephanie A Fernhaber, Brett Anitra Gilbert and Patricia P McDougall

J Int Bus Stud 39: 267-290; advance online publication, December 6, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400342

The paradox of technological capabilities: a study of knowledge sourcing from host countries of overseas R&D operations

Jaeyong Song and Jongtae Shin

J Int Bus Stud 39: 291-303; advance online publication, January 3, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400348

The role of past performance in export ventures: a short-term reactive approach

Luis Filipe Lages, Sandy D Jap and David A Griffith

J Int Bus Stud 39: 304-325; advance online publication, November 29, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400339

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Commentary

The theory and practice of regional strategy: a response to Osegowitsch and Sammartino

Alan M Rugman and Alain Verbeke

J Int Bus Stud 39: 326-332; advance online publication, January 17, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400349