1. Globalization of professional business services / Yair Aharoni -- 2. Business and professional services : competing in a more mobile world / Bernard Ascher -- 3. Effects of GATT rules on trade in professional services / Richard H. Snape -- 4. Mutual recognition, regulatory competition and the globalization of professional services / Kalypso Nicolaidis -- 5. The globalization of services and service-intensive goods industries / Seev Hirsch -- 6. The internationalization of the production of services : some general and specific explanations / John H. Dunning -- 7. The globalization of professional service firms : evidence from four case studies / Charles Baden-Fuller -- 8. Ownerships, networks and coalitions / Yair Aharoni -- 9. The impact of bargaining and negotiating on the globalization of professional service firms / Karin Fladmoe-Lindquist -- 10. Risk-sharing incentive contracts : on setting compensation policy for expatriate professionals in a foreign operation / Zur Shapira -- 11. Co-operative strategies for professional service firms : unique opportunities and challenges / Bente R. Lowendahl -- 12. Patterns of international competition in service industries : global oligopolistic reaction and national competitive advantages / Jiatao Li and Stephen Guisinger -- 13. International competitiveness and corporate strategies in the construction services sector / Yehia Soubra -- 14. Business co-operation with Eastern Europe : problems and perspectives / Viktor Vlasek -- 15. Globalization of professional business services and Eastern Europe / Jan Maciejewicz -- 16. The global expansion of Japanese financial service firms : role of domestic economic and regulatory policies / Raj Aggarwal -- 17. Globalization of banking services : Canada’s strategies in the Triad / Alan M. Rugman and Andrew Anderson -- 18. The internationalization process in professional business service firms : some tentative conclusions / Yair Aharoni.