Images of the multinational firm / Simon Collinson and Glenn Morgan -- The regional dimension of multinationals and the end of varieties of capitalism / Alan Rugman and Alain Verbeke -- The innovative multinational firm : the dispersion of creativity, and its implications for the firm and for world development / John Cantwell and Yanli Zhang -- The multinational firm as the major global promoter of economic development / Simon Collinson -- The multinational firm as a creator, fashioner and respondent to institutional change / John H. Dunning and Sarianna M. Lundan -- The multinational firm as an evolutionary system / D. Eleanor Westney -- The multinational firm as a distinct organizational form / Richard Whitley -- Multinational firms as societies / Glenn Morgan and Peer Hull Kristensen -- The multinational firm as a contested terrain / Paul Edwards and Jacques B'elanger -- The multinational firm as a locus of learning along networks / Ray Loveridge -- The multinational firm as an instrument of exploitation and domination / Raza Mir and Diana Rosemary Sharpe.