Multinationals on the Periphery

by Benito, Gabriel; Narula, Rajneesh

• ISBN13: 9781403991669
• ISBN10: 1403991669
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book focuses on how MNE activity both to and from peripheral economies differs from MNEs associated with "core" economies.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. viii
Notes on the Contributors	p. x
Preface	p. xi
States and Firms on the Periphery: The Challenges of a Globalizing World	p. 1
Can Domestically Owned Manufacturing Firms of Small Developing Economies Compete in a Liberalized Trading Environment?	p. 25
Internationalization of Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises: Are Foreign Investors Dictating the Rules of the Game?	p. 48
The Internationalization Patterns of Norwegian Firms: Does Industry Matter?	p. 74
The Pace of Internationalization for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises	p. 98
Public Policy, FDI Attraction and Multinational Subsidiary Evolution: The Contrasting Cases of Ireland and Portugal	p. 131
MNCs in the Periphery: DaimlerChrysler South Africa (DCSA), Human Capital Upgrading and Regional Economic Development	p. 158
Outside the Triad: An Examination of International R&D Investments within Peripheral Economies	p. 188
Moving Out of the Country: An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Country, Cluster and Firm-related Factors	p. 206
Centre and Periphery in the WTO: The Case of TRIPS	p. 228
Index	p. 269
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