TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 39, Issue 3 (April/May 2008)

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Editorial

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

Lorraine Eden Editor-in-Chief

J Int Bus Stud 39: 333-336; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400367

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Perspective

Perspectives on China's outward foreign direct investment

Randall Morck, Bernard Yeung and Minyuan Zhao

J Int Bus Stud 39: 337-350; advance online publication, February 14, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400366

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Articles

Does psychic distance moderate the market size–entry sequence relationship?

Paul D Ellis

J Int Bus Stud 39: 351-369; advance online publication, February 21, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400360

Investment in new foreign subsidiaries under receding perception of uncertainty

Jan Hendrik Fisch

J Int Bus Stud 39: 370-386; advance online publication, March 6, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400362

How much does country matter? An analysis of firms' growth options

Tony W Tong, Todd M Alessandri, Jeffrey J Reuer and Asda Chintakananda

J Int Bus Stud 39: 387-405; advance online publication, January 24, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400355

The performance implications of relationship banking during macroeconomic expansion and contraction: a study of Japanese banks' social relationships and overseas expansion

William P Wan, Daphne W Yiu, Robert E Hoskisson and Heechun Kim

J Int Bus Stud 39: 406-427; advance online publication, February 21, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400364

Control–cooperation interfaces in global strategic alliances: a situational typology and strategic responses FREE

Yadong Luo, Oded Shenkar and Haresh Gurnani

J Int Bus Stud 39: 428-453; advance online publication, February 14, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400365

The motives for international acquisitions: capability procurements, strategic considerations, and the role of ownership structures

Shih-Fen S Chen

J Int Bus Stud 39: 454-471; advance online publication, January 31, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400357

Do multinationals really prefer to enter culturally distant countries through greenfields rather than through acquisitions? The role of parent experience and subsidiary autonomy

Arjen H L Slangen and Jean-François Hennart

J Int Bus Stud 39: 472-490; advance online publication, February 7, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400356

The evolution and internalization of international joint ventures in a transitioning economy

H Kevin Steensma, Jeffrey Q Barden, Charles Dhanaraj, Marjorie Lyles and Laszlo Tihanyi

J Int Bus Stud 39: 491-507; advance online publication, November 22, 2007; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400341

Incompatible strategies in international mergers: the failed merger between Telia and Telenor

Christine Benedichte Meyer and Ellen Altenborg

J Int Bus Stud 39: 508-525; advance online publication, January 24, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400354

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Research Note

Relational ties or customized contracts? An examination of alternative governance choices in China

Kevin Zheng Zhou, Laura Poppo and Zhilin Yang

J Int Bus Stud 39: 526-534; advance online publication, February 7, 2008; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400363