ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on integration and fragmentation, convergence and divergence, harmonisation and complexity. The themes are equally important to consider in European business research and in other regional studies, potentially on a comparative basis. The book contributes support for a strong thesis: that research complementing firm- and country-specific advantage literature needs to be furthered, through the development of a region-specific perspective. This strengthens the literature exploring the dependencies of home regionalisation and global internationalisation, whether within the fragmentation of the global value chain, in business-to-business and business-to-consumer transactions. European business research would be particularly well placed to explore further sub-themes, for example on resilience to terrorism, populism and motions towards pluri- or, at the other extreme, de-integration.
