Multinational corporations and foreign direct investment : avoiding simplicity, embracing complexity /

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Autor principal: Cohen, Stephen D.
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • INTRODUCTION and Acknowledgements
  • PART I: FUNDAMENTALS
  • 1. A Better Approach to Understanding Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational
  • Corporations 2. Defining the Subject: Subtleties and Ambiguities
  • 3. From Obscurity to International Economic Powerhouse: The Evolution of Multinational Corporations
  • 4. Heterogeneity: The Many Kinds of Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations--and Their Disparate Effects
  • 5. Perceptions and Economic Ideologies
  • PART II: THE STRATEGY OF MULTINATIONALS
  • 6. Why Companies Invest Overseas
  • 7. Where Multinational Corporations Invest and Dont Invest and Why
  • PART III: IMPACT ON THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER
  • 8. Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Less Developed Countries: Vagaries, Variables, Negatives, and Positives
  • 9. Why and How Multinational Corporations Have Altered International Trade
  • 10. Multinational Corporations versus the Nation State: Has Sovereignty Been Outsourced?
  • 11. The International Regulation of Multinational Corporations: Why There Is No Multilateral Foreign Direct Investment Regime
  • PART IV: THREE BOTTOM LINES
  • 12. The Case For Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations
  • 13. The Case Against Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations
  • 14. An Agnostic Conclusion: It Depends
  • PART V: RECOMMENDATIONS
  • 15. An Agenda for Future Action.