The new competition for inward investment : companies, institutions, and territorial development / edited by Nicholas Phelps, Phil Raines.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phelps, N. A. (Nicholas A.)

Raines, Philip.

Series:

New horizons in international business

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investments.

Investments, Foreign.

Physical Description:

xiii, 231 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar, [2003]

Contents:

2. Core Industries, Coercive Competition and the Structural Contradictions of Global Neoliberalism / James Crotty 9

3. MNCs and Wannabes

Inward Investment, Discourses of Regional Development, and the Regional Service Class / John Lovering 39

4. Attracting Foreign Direct Investment to the United States: the Joust Between the Federal Government and the States / Edward M. Graham 61

5. The Politics of Orchestrating Inward Investment: Institutions, Policy and Practice in the Industrial Midwest / Andrew Wood 79

6. Uncertainty, Incentives, and the Preservation of an Industrial Icon: The Case of Toledo Jeep / Neil Reid, Jay D. Gatrell 99

7. Flows and Territories: the New Geography of Competition for Mobile Investment in Europe / Philip Raines 119

8. Cross-border Plant Closures in the EU: UK Perspectives / H. D. Watts 137

9. Joining the Competition: Central and Eastern European Challenge to Established FDI Destinations? / Ewa Helinska-Hughes, Michael Hughes 155

10. Business Cultures, the State, and the Changing Investment Environment of East and Southeast Asia / Bill Pritchard, Kate Lloyd 173

11. Scramble for FDI: The Experience of Guangdong Province in Southern China / Godfrey Yeung 193

12. Conclusions: Who's Competing with Whom? / Philip Raines, Nicholas Phelps 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

184064785X

OCLC:

52334942