Includes bibliographical references.

Recent trends in foreign direct investment / by Rolf Jungnickel -- Direct employment in multinational enterprises in industrialized and developing countries in the 1980s: main characteristics and recent trends / by Aurelio Parisotto -- Employment effe cts of the changing strategies of multinational enterprises / by James Hamill -- Cross-border mergers, acquisitions and strategic alliances / by James Hamill -- Growth and structural changes of Japanese overseas direct investment: implications for labour and management in host economies / by Susumu Watanabe -- Local sourcing and indirect employment: multinational enterprises in northern Mexico / by Noe Aron Fuentes F. ... [et al.] -- Employment and national enterprises in Indonesia / by Hal Hill -- Effects of foreign direct investment on employment in the former "centrally planned economies" of Central and Eastern Europe / by Martin K. Welge and Dirk Holtbrègge -- Multinational enterprises in the service sector: conceptual and policy issues / by Ana Romero -- The globalizing firm and labour institutions / by Duncan Campbell -- Overview and conclusions / by Geoffrey Renshaw.

Developed and developing countries, multinational enterprises, Central and Eastern Europe, Mexico, Indonesia, Japanese overseas direct investment.