Multinational corporations and foreign direct investment : avoiding simplicity, embracing complexity / Stephen D. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Stephen D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International business enterprises--Finance.

International business enterprises.

Investments, Foreign.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Large companies doing business on a global basis increasingly dominate the production and marketing of the world's goods and services. This book analyses multinational corporations.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Fundamentals; 1 A Better Approach to Understanding Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations; 2 Defining the Subject: Subtleties and Ambiguities; 3 From Obscurity to International Economic Powerhouse: The Evolution of Multinational Corporations; 4 Heterogeneity: The Many Kinds of Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations and Their Disparate Effects; 5 Perceptions and Economic Ideologies; Part II: The Strategy of Multinationals; 6 Why Companies Invest Overseas

7 Where Multinational Corporations Invest and Don't Invest and WhyPart III: Impact on the International Order; 8 Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Less Developed Countries: Vagaries, Variables, Negatives, and Positives; 9 Why and How Multinational Corporations Have Altered International Trade; 10 Multinational Corporations versus the Nation-State: Has Sovereignty Been Outsourced?; 11 The International Regulation of Multinational Corporations: Why There Is No Multilateral Foreign Direct Investment Regime; Part IV: Three Bottom Lines

12 The Case for Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations13 The Case against Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations; 14 An Agnostic Conclusion: ''It Depends''; Part V: Recommendations; 15 An Agenda for Future Action; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-988448-X

0-19-517936-6

9786610965748

1-4356-1962-5

1-280-96574-6

0-19-803985-9

OCLC:

141199965