The Reading School of International Business is widely understood in the field of international business (IB), management and economics to embody a stream of conceptual, and theoretically-driven empirical research, and consists of a group of economists and international business scholars who share a common approach to analyzing multinational enterprise and foreign direct investment. Some are based in the Department of Economics and in Henley Business School at the University of Reading, England, but membership is international. The Reading School builds upon the pathbreaking theoretical work of Peter Buckley and Mark Casson on internalization theory. This was complemented by simultaneous work by John Dunning as he developed the eclectic paradigm of international business as an envelope explanation containing three principal drivers of foreign direct investment, comprising ownership (O); location (L); and internalization (I). The Reading School approach continues through the work of its academic disciples around the world, as well as through The John Dunning Centre at Henley Business School, University of Reading, under the directorship of Rajneesh Narula. DUNNING, John H. British, b. 1927. Genres: Business/Trade/Industry, Economics, International relations/Current affairs. Career: University of Reading, foundation professor of economics, 1964-74, Esmee Fairbairn Professor of Intl Investment and Business Studies, 1975-87, ICI research professor in intl investment and business studies, 1987-92, emeritus professor of intl business, 1992-. Rutgers University, Newark, state of NJ professor of intl business; University of Intl Business and Economics, Beijing, honorary professor of intl business, 1995-2001. Economists Advisory Group, London, chairman and director, 1982-2002. University of Southampton, former lecturer. Adviser, National Economic Development Office, England, 1973, UN, 1973-74, OECD, 1974-85, European Commission, 1995-96. Sr. economic adviser to UN Centre on Transnational Corporations and UNCTAD, 1987-. Publications: American Investment in British Manufacturing Industry, 1958, rev. ed., 1998; Studies in International Investment, 1970; United Kingdom Multinationals and Trade Flows of Less Developed Countries, 1976; (with T. Houston) United Kingdom Industry Abroad, 1976; United States Industry in Britain, 1976; International Production and the Multinational Enterprise, 1981; (with R.D. Pearce) The World's Largest Industrial Companies, 1985; Multinational Enterprises, Economic Structure, and International Competitiveness, 1985; Japanese Participation in British Industry, 1986; Explaining International Production, 1988; Multinationals: Technology and Competitiveness, 1988; Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy, 1993; Global Business and the Challenge of the 1990s, 1993; Alliance Capitalism and Global Business, 1997. EDITOR/CO-EDITOR: Readings in International Investment, 1972; Economic Analysis and the Multinational Enterprise, 1974; International Capital Movements, 1982; The IRM Directory of Statistics on International Investment and Production, 1987; Structural Change in the World Economy, 1990; Governments, Globalization and International Business, 1997; Regions, Globalization and the Knowledge Based Economy, 2000; Global Capitalism at Bay, 2001; Theories and Paradigms of International Business Activity, 2002; Making Globalization Good, 2003.