Books by Henrik Schaumburg-Müller

The New Asian Dragon – Internationalization of Firms in Vietnam is an exciting exploration of how firms in Vietnam have grown and developed their export strategies contributing significantly to the country's amazing economic growth and poverty reduction. It is also a study of how foreign firms have contributed, and about inter-cultural management and strategies of linkages between local and transnational companies. The book contributes to new knowledge within international business and private sector development studies of how cross-border economic organization takes place for example with global value chains in a country new to economic globalization. The edited book is the outcome of four years research cooperation between two universities in Vietnam, the National Economics University and the Foreign Trade University, and two in Denmark, the Copenhagen Business School and Aalborg University. As a result of their joint research sixteen researchers from Vietnam and four from Denmark have contributed as authors of the ten chapters in the book.

The book presents the findings of a study of the world's largest container shipping firm, A.P. Moller - Maersk and its role in integrating developing countries into the global economy. The study focuses on A.P. Moller - Maersk's container business in South East Asian developing countries, in particular Vietnam. Building on an extensive empirical analysis of A.P. Moller - Maersk's container business in South East Asia, the book suggests that A.P. Moller - Maersk's container business may play an important role in the integration of global production processes, not only by moving goods from A to B and coordinating multiple modes of transport, but also by coordinating and integrating increasingly atomized production processes at a global scale. By analysing A.P. Moller - Maersk's activities in South East Asia, the book con-tributes to our understanding of the role of container shipping services in economic develop-ment processes.

The book is based on a number of case studies of linkage collaborations and a survey of about 90 Danish firms and their relations to partners in developing countries. The analysed host countries are Ghana, India, Malaysia, South Africa and Vietnam. The book is a contribution to the emerging literature on firm strategy in developing countries, offering new empirical evidence of the multi-facetted and complex nature of cross border inter-firm linkages. It documents how even small firms in both developed and developing countries engage in, and can benefit from, cross border linkages. The target groups for this book are academics with an interest in business and development studies, policy makers and managers within private sector development, and students of international business and development studies.