Direct foreign investment : a Japanese model of multinational business operations / Kiyoshi Kojima.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kojima, Kiyoshi, 1920-2010, author.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Japan.

Routledge library editions. Japan ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investments, Japanese.

International business enterprises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 1978, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Direct foreign investment and the activities of multinational corporations are new dynamic elements in the international economy. This book identifies, theoretically and practically, a Japanese model of multinational business operations which has characteristics differing from the American or ""anti-trade oriented"" type, and casts light on important policy implications concerning direct foreign investment and multinational corporations. By developing a macroeconomic approach to direct foreign investment, instead of the prevalent explanation from the viewpoint of business administration and in

Contents:

""BOOK COVER""; ""TITLE 01""; ""COPYRIGHT 01""; ""TITLE 02""; ""COPYRIGHT 02""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""1 ISSUES OF DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT""; ""2 INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOUR: BASIC THEORIES FOR TRADE AND INVESTMENT""; ""3 THE THEORIES OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT: AN OVERVIEW""; ""4 DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT: JAPANESE MODEL VERSUS AMERICAN MODEL""; ""5 A MACRO-ECONOMIC THEORY OF DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT""; ""6 INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FOREIGN INVESTMENT: SUBSTITUTES OR COMPLEMENTS?""; ""7 TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: JAPANESE TYPE VERSUS AMERICAN TYPE""

""8 DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: THE ISSUE OF OVER-PRESENCE""""9 DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT BETWEEN ADVANCED INDUSTRIALISED COUNTRIES""; ""10 JAPAN�S RESOURCE SECURITY AND FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN THE PACIFIC""; ""11 GIANT MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS: MERITS AND DEFECTS""; ""INDEX""

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: London : Croom Helm, 1978.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-92886-3

1-136-92887-1

1-283-03815-3

9786613038159

0-203-84566-8

9780203845660

OCLC:

764571133