Transnational Corporations and International Production : Concepts, Theories and Effects, Third Edition /: Concepts, Theories and Effects, Third Edition. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Grazia Ietto-Gillies.
• Authors: Ietto-Gillies, Grazia
• Contents: Contents: Introduction PART I EVOLUTION AND CONCEPTS 1. Evolution and and growth 2. Modalities of TNCs' operations PART II PRE-WWII APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT Introduction to Part II 3. Marxist approaches 4. Foreign investment within the neoclassical paradigm PART III MODERN THEORIES Introduction to Part III 5. Hymer's seminal work 6. The product life cycle and international production 7. Oligopolistic reactions and the geographical pattern of FDI 8. Currency areas and internationalization 9. Internalization and the transnational corporation 10. Dunning's eclectic framework 11. Stages in the internationalization process: the Uppsala Model 12. Evolutionary theories of the TNC 13. New trade theories and the activities of TNCs 14. Transnational monopoly capitalism 15. Nation-states and TNCs' strategic behaviour 16. The transnational corporation as a network 17. Bundle of resources, dynamic capabilities and the TNC 18. Theories of the TNC and the XXI century PART IV EFFECTS Introduction to Part IV 19. Boundaries in the assessment of effects 20. Innovation and the TNCs 21. Effects on Labour 22. Effects on Trade 23. Wider effects from the balance of payments to fiscal revenues References Index.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (360 pages)
• Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General; International business; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Production & Operations Management; Multinationals; Economic geography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781788117142
• Related ISBNs: 9781788117135
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