Multinational Enterprises in Less Developed Countries

✍ Scribed by Peter J. Buckley, Jeremy Clegg (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 361
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume identifies and analyses the crucial issues in the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on less developed countries (LDCs). Although the authors take a variety of wide stances on the important questions a uniformity of approach emerges. The perspective is essentially that of economic analysis but it is enlivened by unorthodox concepts derived from related social science disciplines. The chapters cover the process of development, paying attention to entrepreneurship, cultural factors and management styles and examine the impact on welfare and income distribution in the host country.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction and Statement of the Issues....Pages 3-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Multinational Enterprises in Less Developed Countries: Cultural and Economic Interactions....Pages 27-55
On the Transferability of Management Systems: The Case of Japan....Pages 56-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Strategic Trade Policy and the Multinational Enterprise in Developing Countries....Pages 79-91
Market Rivalry, Government Policies and Multinational Enterprise in Developing Countries....Pages 92-110
The Impact of Foreign Investment on Less Developed Countries: Cross-Section Analysis versus Industry Studies....Pages 111-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Countertrade: Theory and Evidence....Pages 133-162
Factors Influencing FDI by TNCs in Host Developing Countries: A Preliminary Report....Pages 163-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Foreign Multinationals and Industrial Development in Africa....Pages 183-224
Yugoslav Foreign Direct Investment in Less Developed Countries....Pages 225-247
The Evolution of Multinationals from a Small Economy: A Study of Swedish Firms in Asia....Pages 248-269
Multinational Activity in the Mediterranean Rim Textile and Clothing Industry....Pages 270-291
Service Sector Multinationals and Developing Countries....Pages 292-309
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Some Concluding Remarks....Pages 313-321
Back Matter....Pages 322-353

✦ Subjects

Development Economics;Organization