Multinational Corporations: Emergence and Evolution

✍ Scribed by Paz Estrella Tolentino

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 482
Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This work presents case-studies of the emergence and evolution of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) based in eleven developed and developing countries of widely divergent patterns of national development. From this analysis, Tolentino develops a comprehensive theory of the emergence and evolution of MNCs from a macroeconomic perspective.

✦ Table of Contents

Book cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series-Title......Page 3
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedications......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
List of Tables......Page 14
Foreword......Page 16
Preface......Page 20
1. The theoretical foundations......Page 28
2. The emergence of multinational corporations from the United States......Page 47
3. The evolution of multinational corporations from the United States......Page 77
4. The emergence and evolution of multinational corporations from Sweden......Page 100
5. The emergence and evolution of multinational corporations from Brazil......Page 113
6. Conclusion......Page 143
7. The emergence and evolution of multinational corporations from the United Kingdom......Page 159
8. The emergence and evolution of multinational corporations from Germany......Page 178
9. The emergence and evolution of multinational corporations from Japan......Page 197
10. The emergence and evolution of multinational corporations from Taiwan......Page 222
11. The emergence and evolution of multinational corporations from South Korea......Page 263
12. Conclusion......Page 301
13. The emergence and evolution of multinational corporations from Switzerland......Page 334
14. The emergence and evolution of multinational corporations from Hong Kong......Page 354
15. The emergence and evolution of multinational corporations from Singapore......Page 382
16. Conclusion......Page 407
17. The emergence and evolution of multinational corporations: implications for theory......Page 428
References......Page 452
Index......Page 474

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