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9780415167888

The Nature of the Transnational Firm

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415167888

  • ISBN10:

    0415167884

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2000-04-26
  • Publisher: Routledge

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This book brings together the major, state-of-the-art approaches to the transnational firm in one volume. Leading international thinkers present overviews of a vibrant theoretical literature and assess the current state of analysis. Thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the explosive growth of foreign direct investment in the 1990's, this volume will be welcomed by students and researchers of international business, international economics and business economics.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
vi
Figures and tables
vii
The (theory of the) transnational firm: the 1990s and beyond
1(9)
Christos N. Pitelis
Roger Sugden
A survey of theories of international production
10(47)
John Cantwell
A critical re-evaluation of Hymer's contribution to the theory of the transnational corporation
57(15)
Mohammad Yamin
Transaction costs theory and the multinational enterprise
72(47)
Jean-Francois Hennart
The eclectic paradigm of international production: a personal perspective
119(21)
John H. Dunning
The resource-based approach to multinational enterprise
140(22)
Neil Kay
Strategic management and transnational firm behaviour: a formal approach
162(12)
Edward M. Graham
Divide and rule by transnational corporations
174(19)
James Peoples
Roger Sugden
The TNC: an all-weather company
193(17)
Christos N. Pitelis
Index 210

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