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[email protected]. Revised 28 April 2006 Submitted to Long Range Planning NOT TO BE QUOTED OR REPRODUCED. COMMENTS WELCOME.. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES George Yip is Professor of Strategic and International Management at London Business School and Lead Senior Fellow of the U.K.’s Advanced Institute of Management Research. From July 2006, he will be Vice President and Director of Research & Innovation at Capgemini UK, based in London. He has also taught at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge. He is the author of Total Global Strategy (published in ten languages). Alan Rugman is the L. Leslie Waters Chair of International Business at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, where he is Professor of International Business and Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy and Director of IU CIBER.