the rise of foreign investment from developing countries text bibliography m Cambridge, Mass MIT Press c1983 monographic 0 e

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viii, 206 p. 24 cm. This book explores the question of why firms based in developing countries have chosen to invest in branches, joint ventures, and wholly owned subsidiaries overseas rather than simply export goods or enter into licensing arrangements abroad. In additi on to the cost of transport, tariff barriers, and import restrictions, it identifies a number of less apparent factors, such as the motivations of managers in wanting to go abroad, the meshing of technological levels, ethnic ties, and the desire to protect proprietary processes and competitive advantages. pt. 1. The new multinationals. Terminology -- Data and methodology -- pt. 2. Understanding foreign direct investment. Firm-specific advantages -- Motivations for investment -- Investment or license? -- pt. 3. Small-scale manufacturing as a competitive advantage. Small-scale markets -- Characteristics of the small-scale technology -- Low overheads -- Exploiting the advantages -- pt. 4. Local procurement and special products as competitive advantages. Use of local resources -- Ethnic products -- Other innovations -- Level of technology -- pt. 5. Access to markets as a competitive advantage. Trade name as an advantage -- Following the customer -- The offshore manufacturers -- Price as a marketing tool -- pt. 6. Motivations for foreign investment. Defending export markets -- Quotas and the offshore manufacturers -- The search for lower costs -- Ethnic ties -- Diversification -- Other drives for investment abroad -- Resulting investment patterns -- pt. 7. Invest or license? problems of contract -- Successful contractors -- Partial internalization -- pt. 8. Nonmanufacturing investments. The service sector -- Raw materials -- pt. 9. Government policies. Host governments -- Home governments -- International institutions -- Governments of industrialized countries -- pt. 10. Prospects for the firms. Manufacturing firms -- Nonmanufacturing firms. Louis T. Wells, Jr. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [193]-200. d------ Corporations Developing countries International business enterprises Developing countries Corporations, Foreign Developing countries Corporations Pays en voie de dâeveloppement Entreprises mutinationales Pays en voie de dâeveloppement Entreprises multinationales Pays en voie de dâeveloppement Investissements âetrangers Pays en voie de dâeveloppement Auslandsinvestition Direktinvestition Investition Multinationales Unternehmen Buitenlandse investeringen Internationale ondernemingen Developing countries Corporations Developing countries International business enterprises Entwicklungslèander Foreign investment by multinational companies from developing companies HD2755.5 .W44 1983 0262231131 9780262231138 http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780262231138.pdf http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780262231138.pdf 8210 20251012174510.0 0000009918