Despite their universal roots, foreign economics (IE) and overseas company (IB) have built into special fields of research. Economists have directed their efforts at formalizing the workings of foreign alternate and funding on the macroeconomic point; company students have relied extra on data-driven conceptual narratives than mathematical instruments. however the fresh concentration of IE literature on enterprise heterogeneity means that IE would get advantages from IB analyses of the habit and association of the internationalizing company. The contributions to this quantity examine ways in which insights from IB can enhance IE examine in company heterogeneity.The members speak about firm-specific benefits in overseas exchange and funding, contemplating the enterprise because the unit of research and managerial inputs as a variable in industry access judgements; examine interactions among a company and its exterior surroundings, together with neighborhood company philanthropy and institutional settings; learn the limits of the enterprise and organizational offerings akin to the make-or-buy determination; and examine know-how move and innovation offshoring, discussing the position of subsidiaries, inventor employment, and different comparable themes. even if IE and IB examine overseas corporations from various views, those contributions make it transparent that there's a power for a efficient trade of insights and knowledge among the 2 disciplines.ContributorsLaura Abramovsky, Carlo Altomonte, Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Bruce Blonigen, Pamela Bombarda, Steven Brakman, Julia Darby, Rodolphe Desbordes, Filippo Di Mauro, María García-Vega, Harry Garretsen, Elena Huergo, Florian Mayneris, Quyen T. okay. Nguyen, Verena Nowak, Cheyney O'Fallon, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Michael Pflüger, Filomena Pietrovito, Sandra Poncet, Alberto Franco Pozzolo, Alan M. Rugman, Armando Rungi, Stephan Russek, Davide Sala, Luca Salvatici, Christian Schwarz, Roger Smeets, Jens Suedekum, Hans van Ees, Vincent Vicard, Ian Wooton, Erdal Yalcin