The Multinational Enterprise: Theory and Applications

✍ Scribed by Peter J. Buckley (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

These papers provide an integrated treatment of the theory with its applications for industrial sectors, regions and international business policy. The theory is applied to smaller firms, to co-operative agreements between firms and to exports in the strategy of large multinational firms.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
New Theories of International Business: Some Unresolved Issues....Pages 3-23
Foreign Direct Investment by Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises: The Theoretical Background....Pages 24-45
A Theory of Cooperation in International Business....Pages 46-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
The Limits of Explanation: Testing the Internalisation Theory of the Multinational Enterprise....Pages 77-93
Exports in the Strategy of Multinational Enterprises....Pages 94-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
The Implications of the Economic Theory of the Multinational Enterprise for Control at the International Level....Pages 113-122
Policy Issues of Intra-EC Direct Investment....Pages 123-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
An Economic Transactions Analysis of Tourism....Pages 153-160
Manpower Management in the Domestic and International Construction Industry....Pages 161-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
On Japanese Foreign Direct Investment....Pages 185-201
The Wit and Wisdom of Japanese Management: An Iconoclastic Analysis....Pages 202-225
The Strategy of Pacific Asian Multinationals....Pages 226-246
Back Matter....Pages 247-254

✦ Subjects

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