The Location of Foreign Direct Investment
Geographic and Business Approaches
Published on 18. October 1995
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-85972-067-7 (ISBN)
Description
The location of foreign direct investment is important because it defines the realignment of capital relationships between countries. Locational choice is ever expanding, making an examination of incentives, entry mode, location choice as cultural learning, and failure of foreign controlled plants long overdue. Contributors from the diverse field of economic geography, economics, finance and marketing come together to provide a picture of foreign direct investment. The diversity of viewpoint, method of analysis and geographic area held by the contributors provides a treatment of foreign direct investment. The book should be of interest to students of geography and business alike, and also government regulators of foreign direct investment and local development officials hoping to attract foreign direct investment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
36figs.26tabs.
Dimensions
Height: 159 mm
Width: 222 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85972-067-7 (9781859720677)
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Content
Place-specific determinants of FDI - the geographical perspective; an examination of foreign direct investment theories and the multinational firm - a business/economic perspective; foreign direct investment in the innovation-driven stage - toward a learning option perspective; the internationalization process approach to the location of foreign direct investments - an empirical analysis; silicon Glen - 50 years of the electronics industry; Japanese manufacturing companies in southern Ontario and NAFTA; Japanese corporate groups and the locational strategy of Japanese auto and component parts makers in the US; causes of foreign takeovers in the US - a real sector imperfections model; trade regimes, foreign investments, and the new liberalization environment in Indonesia; the location of foreign banks in Australia; transnational branch banking 1976-1886 - an empiricist's approach; concentration and dispersion of global control links and changes in the multinational quaternary place system.