Technological Innovation and Third World Multinationals
1st Edition
Published on 2. September 2003
480 pages
978-1-134-94566-5 (ISBN)
Description
This examines the relationship between technological growth and outward direct investment from firms in Asia and Latin America which has become increasingly siginificant as these countries develop.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
3,42 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-94566-5 (9781134945665)
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Additional editions
Paz Estrella Tolentino
Technological Innovation and Third World Multinationals
Foreword by John H. Dunning
Book
03/1993
1st Edition
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Persons
Paz Estrella E. Tolentino is a Transnational Corporations Affairs Officer at the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, New York. The initial research for this book emerged from a doctoral thesis prepared by the author at the University of Reading where the author received the 1989 Academy of International Business Richard N. Farmer prize for the best Ph.D dissertation on international business.
Content
1 Introduction 2 Trends in foreign direct investment 3 The theories of international production 4 The theories of Third World multinationals 5 The concept of an investment development cycle: some econometric testing 6 The role of foreign technology in the development of Third World multinationals 7 The dynamic interdependence between inward and outward investment in the Philippines 8 A profile of Philippine multinationals 9 The industrial development of Third World outward investment 10 The geographical development of Third World outward investment 11 In conclusion: implications for theory and policy
