Part 1: the characteristics and performance of Japanese-North American joint ventures in North America, Andrew Inkpen; approaching heterachy - a review of the literature on multinational strategy and structure, Julian M. Birkinshaw. Part 2 Expatriates and entrepreneurs: the boundary spanning role of expatriates in the multinational corporation, David C. Thomas; US expatriates and the Civil Rights Act of 1991 - dissolving boundaries, Sully Taylor and Robert W. Eder; corporate entrepreneurship - United States firms operating in the Middle East and the Arab World, Carol Carlson Dean and Mary Shephered Thibodeaux; organizational changes in planned economies in transition - an eclectic model, Mike W. Peng; learning from the Asian NICS - policy options for Central and East European republics, Raymond Saner and Lichia Yiu.