Professor Rajneesh Narula
International Business and Strategy
Professor of International Business Regulation
Director of the John H. Dunning Centre for International Business
Rajneesh Narula is Professor of International Business Regulation and Director of the John H. Dunning Centre for International Business at the Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. His research, teaching and consulting have focused on the internationalisation of innovation, R&D alliances, emerging economies, and the role of multinational firms in industrial development. He is the author or editor of ten books, and over 60 articles and chapters in books. He acts regularly as a consultant and advisor to various UN agencies, the European Commission and the OECD. Narula has previously held positions at the Copenhagen Business School, University of Oslo, BI Norwegian School of Management, the University of Maastricht, Rutgers University, and the United Nations.
By area: International business, innovation, economic development
Programme Director for MSc in International Business, Module Convenor for International Strategic Management, Contemporary Issues in International Business, and Industrialisation and the Multinational Enterprise
Narula, R. and Santangelo, G. D. "New Insights on the Role of Location Advantages in International Innovation"
Narula, R. and Nguyen, Q. "Emerging Country MNEs and the Role of Home Countries: Separating Fact from Irrational Expectations"
Journals
Meyer, K., Mudambi, R. and Narula, R. (2011) MNEs and Local contexts: location, control and value creation, Journal of Management Studies, 48(2), 253-277
Narula, R. and Guimón, J. (2010) The investment development path in a globalised world: implications for Eastern Europe. Eastern Journal of European Studies, 1 (2). pp. 5-19. ISSN 2068-6633
Narula, R., Dunning, J.H. (2010). Multinational enterprises, development and globalization: some clarifications and a research agenda. Oxford Development Studies, 38(3): 263 – 287
Narula, R. (2010) Keeping the eclectic paradigm simple. Multinational Business Review, 18 (2). pp. 35-50. ISSN 1525-383X
Narula, R. and Santangelo, G. (2009) Location, Collocation and R&D alliances in the European ICT Industry, Research Policy, Vol 38, pp 393 – 403
Criscuolo, P. and Narula, R. (2007). Using multi-hub structures for international R&D: organizational inertia and the challenges of implementation, Management International Review, Vol 47, 639-660
Narula, R. (2006). Globalization, new ecologies, new zoologies, and the purported death of the eclectic paradigm. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 23(2): 143.151
Globalisation and Technology: interdependence, innovation systems and industrial policy, Intellectual publishing house, Beijing, 2011 (Chinese edition)
New Insights on the Role of Location Advantages in International Innovation. In A. Verbeke and H. Merchant (eds) Edward Elgar Handbook of Research on International Strategic Management, Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 2012 (with Santangelo, G.D.)
Multinational Firms, Globalization and Innovations for New Members States of the EU, in S. Radosovic (ed), Challenges Of Innovation Policy on European Periphery: Schumpeterian Perspective, Edward Elgar, 2011
Global R&D Trends and Implications for Europe, in P. Ahrweiler (ed) Innovation in Complex Social Systems, Routledge, 2010 (with Julie Michel)
A novel approach to national technological accumulation and absorptive capacity: aggregating Cohen and Levinthal In K. Meyer (ed) Multinational Enterprises and Host Economies, Edward Elgar, Adershot (with Paola Criscuolo), 2009
Multinational enterprises from small economies. Internationalization patterns of large corporations from Denmark, Finland, and Norway, D. Van Den Bulcke, A. Verbeke and Y. Yuan Handbook on Small Nations in the Global Economy, Edward Elgar, 2009
Do multinationals matter for emerging markets, or vice versa? in Multinationals and Emerging Economies , edited by Wilfred Dolfsma, Geert Duysters and Ionara Costa, Edward Elgar, 2009
Multinational enterprises', in in Ramkishen S. Rajan and Kenneth A. Reinert, eds., Princeton Encyclopaedia of the World Economy, Princeton University Press (2008)
Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development: Opportunities and Limitations from a Developing Country Perspective in L .Piscitello and G. Santangelo (eds) do multinationals feed local development and growth? Elsevier; Amsterdam, 2007 (with Brian Portelli)
Knowledge creation and why it matters for development, in Globalization of R&D and developing countries, UNCTAD, Geneva, 2006
Understanding the growth of international R&D alliances, in John Cantwell and Jose Molero (eds) Multinational Enterprises, Innovative Strategies and Systems of Innovation, Edward Elgar, 2004
Globalisation of Innovation : The Role of Multinational Enterprises in: Jan Fagerberg, David Mowery and Richard R. Nelson (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Innovation, Oxford University Press, 2004
The Eclectic Paradigm and the Global Economy, in J. Cantwell and R. Narula (eds) International Business and the Eclectic Paradigm, Routledge, 2003
R&D Collaboration by SMEs: Some Analytical Issues and Evidence, in F. Contractor and P. Lorange (eds), Cooperative Strategies and Alliances, Pergamon Press, 2002
Regional Integration and the strategies of Multinational firms, in Trade and regional Integration in the Development Agenda, Brookings institution/IDB: Washington DC, 2002
The Pattern and Determinants of US Foreign Direct Investment in Industrialised Countries, (with K. Wakelin), in R. Narula (ed), Trade and Investment in a globalising world, New York: Pergamon, 2001
Evolutionary Understanding of Corporate Foreign Investment Behaviour: US Foreign Direct Investment in Europe, (with J. Hagedoorn) in R. Narula (ed), International Trade, Investment in a globalising world, New York: Pergamon, 2001
Choosing partners in R&D alliances: some technological considerations, in Farok Contractor (ed.) The valuation of intangible assets in global operations, Westport CT and London: Quorum Books, 2001
Strategic technology alliances by European firms since 1980: questioning integration?, in F. Chesnais, G. Ietto-Gillies and R. Simonetti (eds) European Integration and Global Corporate Strategies, Routledge, London 2000
Foreign Direct Investment, Globalisation and Country-Specific Factors in the Industrialised Countries, in H. Singer, Hatti, N. and Tandon, R. Globalisation, Technology and Trade, BR Publishing Co, forthcoming 1999
Outward investment from the Netherlands: Introduction and overview (with Roger van Hoesel) Published in: R. van Hoesel and R. Narula (eds.), Multinationals from the Netherlands, London: Routledge, 1999, pp 1-31
Dutch Manufacturing MNEs in the US between 1950 and 1995, (with A. Hogenbirk) in R. van Hoesel and R. Narula (eds), Multinationals from the Netherlands, Routledge, London, 1999
Technological Competitiveness, Trade and Foreign Direct Investment, (with K. Wakelin), reprinted in Technology diffusion in the third world, H. Singer, N. Hatti and R. Tandon (editors), BR publishing Co, 2000
Technocratic-Corporate Partnering: Extending Alliance Capitalism, in G. Boyd and J. Dunning (ed) Building Global Complementarities, Edward Elgar, 1998
Third World Multinationals Revisited: New Developments And Theoretical Implications, (with J. H. Dunning and R. van Hoesel) in Dunning, J. (ed) Globalization, Trade and Foreign Direct Investment, Pergamon, 1998
Choosing Modes of Governance for Strategic Technology Partnering: International and Sectoral Differences (with J. Hagedoorn) reprinted in Foreign Direct Investment and Technological Change, John Cantwell (editor), Edward Elgar: Cheltenham (1998), pp 241-261.
Elección de formas de organización de la asociación tecnológica estratégica: diferencias sectoriales e internacionales" In (Jose Molero, ed. )Globalización y Cambio Tecnológico. Ed. Pirámide.
Forms of International Cooperation between Corporations, in C. Jepma and A. Rhoen (eds), International Trade: A Business Perspective, Longman, Harlow, 1996
The Investment Development Path Revisited: Some Emerging Issues, in J. Dunning and R. Narula (eds) Foreign Direct Investment and Governments: Catalysts for Economic Restructuring, pp 1-41, London: Routledge, 1996, AND reprinted in Foreign Direct Investment and Technological Change, John Cantwell (editor), Edward Elgar: Cheltenham (1998), pp 350-390
Forms of International Cooperation between Corporations, C. Jepma and A. Rhoen (eds), International Trade: A Business Perspective, Longman, Harlow, pp 98-122, 1996
Transnational Corporations from Developing Country TNCs: Impact on Home Countries, (with S. Lall and M. Fujita), United Nations, New York, 1993
Multinationals and the Periphery (with Gabriel Benito), Palgrave, London, 2008
Understanding FDI-Assisted Economic Development (With Sanjaya Lall), Routledge, London 2006 (paperback published 2009)
Multinationals and Industrial competitiveness: a new agenda (with John Dunning), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2004.
International Business and the Eclectic Paradigm (with John Cantwell) Routledge, 2003
Globalisation and Technology: interdependence, innovation systems and industrial policy, Polity Press: Cambridge, 2003.
Trade and Investment in a Globalising World, New York: Pergamon Press, 2001.
Multinationals from the Netherlands, London: Routledge, (co-edited with Roger van Hoesel) 1999
Foreign Direct Investment and Governments: Catalysts for Economic Restructuring, London: Routledge, (co-edited with John Dunning) 1996 (reprinted in paperback, 1999) 10. Multinational Investment and Economic Structure: Globalisation and Competitiveness, London: Routledge, 1996
Keynote speaker, inter-government meeting on the impact of FDI on Development, UNCTAD, Geneva March, 2011
Keynote address, UCD Dublin, conference 'Innovation in complex social Systems" Dec 10-12, 2008
Keynote address: The 3rd Iberian International Business Conference, 19th-20th October 2007, Aveiro, Portugal
Keynote address: Association of Development Researchers in Denmark (FAU) annual meeting, 10-11 May 2007 'Financing Development: The Impact of Competing Flows of Resources'.
Keynote address: The European Commission IST 2006 Conference "Strategies for Leadership in New Technologies" Helsinki, November 21-23, 2007
Keynote Speaker, Conference of FDI and Technology Transfer, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, Sept 2-4 2005. Keynote speaker, Academy of International Business, UK Chapter, Bath, April 2005
Karim Kirollos - MNEs from emerging economies Elsen Ho - reverse knowledge transfer Chaturbhuj Tripathi - Indian SMEs and outward FDI