This volume provides a fresh overview of many novel international business research challenges as they pertain to salient institutional dimensions with a locational component, with a focus on the ‘new normal’.

Introductory Section;D. Eleanor Westney: A Biography; Elizabeth L. Rose Chapter 1: Institutions 2.0: Which Institutions Matter in IB Research?; Alain Verbeke, Rob van Tulder, Elizabeth L. Rose, Yingqi Wei (Editors) Part I: The Great New Challenges for IB Research - Essays in Honour of Eleanor Westney Chapter 2: International Business and Multi-Level Institutional Change: Looking Back and Facing Forward; D. Eleanor Westney Chapter 3: Global Strategic Analysis and Multi-Level Institutional Change; Donald R. Lessard Chapter 4: Is a Networked World Economy Sustainable?; Stephen J. Kobrin Chapter 5: Network Effects and Multilevel Dynamics in the Internationalization of Digital Platforms: A Reflection; Mauro F. Guillen Chapter 6: Renewing the Relevance Of IB: Can Some History Help?; Geoffrey Jones Part II: Home Country Institutions and International Business/div> Chapter 7: Managing Around Populism; Timothy M. Devinney and Christopher A. Hartwell Chapter 8: Institutions, Corporate Governance and Internationalization of State Owned Enterprises in a Varieties of Capitalism Framework; Sergio Mariotti and Riccardo Marzano Chapter 9: Business Group Affiliation and Export Propensity in New Ventures; Jonas Eduardsen, Svetla Marinova, Bozidar Vlacic, and Miguel Gonzalez-Loureiro Chapter 10: Product and Process Innovations and the Institutional Context of Transition Economies: The Effects of External Knowledge; Virginia Hernandez, Maria Jesus Nieto, and Alicia Rodriguez Part III: Host Country Institutions and International Business Chapter 11: Corporate Anti-Corruption Policy, Investment Motives and Foreign Location Choice; Guoliang Frank Jiang and Michael A. Sartor Chapter 12: Host Government Intervention and FDI Inflows: An Empirical Investigation; Gilbert Kofi Adarkwah Chapter 13: Stakeholder Responses and the Interplay Between MNE Post-Entry Behavior and Host Country Informal Institutions; Elina Pelto and Anna Karhu Chapter 14: Old Risks, New Reference Points? An Organizational Learning Perspective into the Foreign Market Exit and Re-Entry Behavior of MNEs; Irina Surdu and Edith Ipsmiller Chapter 15: Intangible Assets of MNE Foreign Subsidiaries: The Role of Internal Financial Resources and Host Country Institutions; Quyen T.K. Nguyen Chapter 16: How Do SMEs Face Institutional Challenges in China?; Noemie Dominguez and Ulrike Mayrhofer Part IV: Multi-Country and Below-Country Level Institutions and International Business Chapter 17: International Services: The Interface Between Service Characteristics, Policy, and Institutions; Kristin Brandl, Peter D. Orberg Jensen, Andrew Jones, and Patrik Strom Chapter 18: Creating a Typology of International Alliances with City-Level Distance Measures; Juliane Engsig, Bo B. Nielsen, Paul Chiambaretto, and Andry Ramaroson Chapter 19: Successful and Unsuccessful Radical Transformation of Multinational Mobile Telephony Companies: The Role of Institutional Context; Frank Elter, Paul Gooderham, and Inger Stensaker Chapter 20: A Note on Changing Regulation in International Business; The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Artificial Intelligence; Aldo Alvarez-Risco and Shyla Del Aguila-Arcentales Part V: Institutions and Sustainability Strategies Chapter 21: Environmental Sustainability Strategy and International Performance: A Review of Literature and A Conceptual Model; Leonardo. Barbosa, Jorge Carneiro, Camila Costa, Filip De Beule, Rafael Goldszmidt, and T. Diana Macedo-Soares Chapter 22: Embeddedness and Interactions in New Public Environmental Management Governance: International and Intertemporal Evidence on Voluntary Standards; Marcus Wagner Chapter 23: Environmental Concerns - Uniting Generations for a Global Cause in Turbulent Times; Susana Costa e Silva, Paulo Duarte, Carla Martins, and Paulo Collaco Chapter 24: The Diffusion of Corporate Sustainability in Global Supply Networks: An Empirical Examination of The Global Automotive Industry; Bruno Barreto de Goes, Masaaki Kotabe, and Jose M. G. Geleilate