Research Catalog

Title

Multinational investment and economic structure : globalisation and competitiveness / Rajneesh Narula.

Author

Narula, Rajneesh, 1963-

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

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Description

xviii, 217 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Examines the interaction between the foreign direct investment activities of multinational enterprises and national economic restructuring and development. Develops and uses a framework based on the investment development path, which states that such investment is influenced by the structure of the economy, and vice versa. Evaluates the proposition using a sample of 40 countries. Includes a study of foreign investment activity between Japan and the USA from 1945 to 1990.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in international business and the world economy, 1359-7930 ; 4

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in international business and the world economy 4.

Subject

• Geschichte 1950-1990
• Geschichte 1950-1990
• Investments, Foreign > Developing countries
• International business enterprises > Finance

Genre/Form

• bibliography.
• graph.
• bibliographie.
• graphique.
• bibliografía.
• gráfico.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-208) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Dynamics of FDI and Economic Growth -- 3. Cross-Sectional Test of the IDP -- 4. Natural and Created Assets as Determinants of FDI -- 5. Globalisation, Homogeneity Among Industrialised Countries and Differences in FDI Patterns -- 6. Country-Specific Factors, Trade and FDI Patterns Over the 1980s -- 7. Transpacific FDI: A Forty-Year View of Changing Competitiveness -- 8. Summary, Conclusions and Policy Implications.

ISBN

0415130131 (hb. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95009397^

OCLC

• 33043968
• SCSB-11728936

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library