The multinational enterprise : theory and applications /

These papers provide an integrated treatment of the theory with its applications for industrial sectors, regions and international business policy. The theory is applied to smaller firms, to co-operative agreements between firms and to exports in the strategy of large multinational firms.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buckley, Peter J., 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press, 1989.
Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1989.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • New theories of international business : some unresolved issues
  • Foreign direct investment by small- and medium-sized enterprises: the theoretical background
  • A theory of cooperation in international business / with Mark Casson
  • The limits of explanation : testing the internalisation theory of the multinational enterprise
  • Exports in the strategy of multinational enterprises / with Robert D. Pearce
  • The implications of the economic theory of the multinational enterprise for control at the international level
  • Policy issues of intra-EC direct investment / with Patrick Artisien
  • An economic transactions analysis of tourism
  • Manpower management in the domestic and international construction industry / with Peter Enderwick
  • On Japanese foreign direct investment
  • The wit and wisdom of Japanese management : an iconoclastic analysis / with Hafiz Mirza
  • The strategy of Pacific Asian multinationals / with Hafiz Mirza.