Research Catalog

Title

Canadian-based multinationals / general editor, Steven Globerman.

Publication

Calgary : University of Calgary Press, ©1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Globerman, Steven.

Description

xii, 470 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"During the past decade, Canadian firms have undertaken significant expansion abroad. Today about 1,300 Canadian-based firms operate foreign (primarily U.S.) subsidiaries. Other major industrialized countries have experienced a similar expansion of direct investment abroad. This process of globalization has created important intra-firm linkages throughout world markets. Today, one-third of world trade is intra-firm. This means that Canada's international competitiveness depends on both the presence of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in this country and Canadian-based MNEs abroad." "This volume considers some major issues linked with Canadian direct investment abroad: whether and to what extent outward direct investment imparts net benefits to the Canadian economy over and above those realized by the investing companies themselves; labour-market issues (shifts in employment between low and high productivity sectors); technology issues (adoption, skills, diffusion, transfer, R & D); and tax issues (objectives and constraints on taxation of FDI, and location effects)."--Jacket

Series Statement

Industry Canada research series, 1188-0988

Uniform Title

Industry Canada research series.

Subject

• International business enterprises > Canada
• Investments, Canadian
• International business enterprises
• Multinationales Unternehmen
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Internationale ondernemingen
• Canada
• Kanada

Note

• Issued also in French under title: Les Multinationales canadiennes.
• Co-published by: Minister of Supply and Services Canada.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The public and private interests in outward direct investment / Steven Globerman -- Recent trends in Canadian direct investment abroad: the rise of Canadian multinationals / Franklin Chow -- Canadian-based multinationals : an analysis of activities and performance / Someshwar Rao, Marc Legault and Ashfaq Ahmad -- Canadian direct investment abroad and the Canadian economy : some theoretical and empirical considerations / Edward M. Graham -- Canadian foreign direct investment, R & D and technology transfer / Donald G. McFetridge -- Labour-market implications of outward foreign direct investment / Morley Gunderson and Savita Verma -- Taxation and Canadian direct investment abroad / Donald J.S. Brean -- Strategic management and Canadian multinationals / Alan M. Rugman -- Joint ventures and Canadian outward direct investment / Steven Globerman and Bernard M. Wolf -- Causes and consequences of Japanese direct investment abroad / John C. Ries and Keith C. Head -- Home-country effects of foreign direct investment : Sweden / Magnus Blomström and Ari O. Kokko -- Macmillan Bloedel : foreign investment decisions and their welfare consequences / Ilan Vertinsky and Rachana Raizada -- Northern Telecom : a case study in the management of technology / Fernand Amesse, Louise Séguin-Dulude and Guy Stanley.

ISBN

• 1895176492
• 9781895176490

OCLC

• ocm30664608
• 30664608
• SCSB-2066129

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library