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The problems of U. S. businesses operating abroad in terrorist environments / Susanna W. Purnell, Eleanor S. Wainstein.

Title
The problems of U. S. businesses operating abroad in terrorist environments / Susanna W. Purnell, Eleanor S. Wainstein.
Author
Purnell, S. W.
Publication
Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 1981.

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Additional Authors
  • United States. Department of Commerce.
  • Wainstein, Eleanor S. (Eleanor Sullivan), 1924-2006
Description
xiii, 103 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
Based on interviews with 59 businessmen, their advisers, and U.S. government officials, this report focuses on the problems of U.S. businesses that run overseas operations in high-risk environments, particularly Latin America. These problems include operating in a climate of instability, high costs of property damage, ransom payments, and expenditures for security purposes; and managerial and technical adjustments that often lower productivity and hamper quality control. Despite the hardships, most businesses do not pull out of a country as a result of terrorist threats or attacks, but cope with them as with other acts of violence.
Series Statement
Rand publication series ; report R-2842-DOC.
Subject
  • Business enterprises, Foreign
  • Corporations, American
  • International business enterprises
  • Terrorism > Economic aspects
  • Terrorism
Note
  • "Prepared for the U.S. Department of Commerce."
  • Bibliography: p. 101-103.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-103).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
OCLC
8166134
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library