Foreign ownership of Canadian industry / A. E. Safarian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Safarian, A. E., author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporations, American--Canada.

Corporations, American.

Corporations, Foreign--Canada.

Corporations, Foreign.

Industries--Canada.

Industries.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This third edition of Foreign Ownership of Canadian Industry features a new preface contextualizing Safarian's influential work against contemporary economic issues and policies.

Contents:

pt. 1. Introduction. Direct investment in the Canadian economy

The controversy about the international firm.

pt. 2. The statistical background to the study. The nature of the interviews and questionnaire

Comparisons of respondent firms with all direct investment companies

Cross-classifications of the variables.

pt. 3. The managers and their powers. The senior executives

The board of directors

The management or executive committee

Other methods of maintaining contact with the affiliate

The delegation of powers

The degree of decentralization of responsibility

The degree of supervision.

pt. 4. The exports of subsidiary companies. The evidence on private international trade restriction

The export pattern of direct investment companies

The nature of the export sales organization

The effect of affiliation on exports

External pressures on foreign-owned firms.

pt. 5. The imports of subsidiary companies. The import pattern of direct investment companies

Policy and organization with regard to purchasing

The effect of affiliation on purchases.

pt. 6. The transfer of knowledge. The performance of research by the respondent companies

The nature of the Canadian research programs

Access to the parent's knowledge.

pt. 7. Comparative costs of production. Unit production costs compared with affiliates

Broader issues regarding efficiency.

pt. 8. The pattern of ownership and finance. The ownership of voting stock

Sources of funds

Payment of dividends

The United States guidelines program.

pt. 9. Nationality of ownership and performance of the firm. Degrees of foreign ownership and performance

The nature of the resident-owned firms in this study

Senior personnel

Marketing and purchasing

Research and development

Ownership and finance

Further tests of difference regarding performance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-9672-9

1-4426-5926-2

OCLC:

905361577