03718nam a2200445Ia 4500001001100000005001700011008004100028020001500069020001800084043001200102050002400114090001900138090002100157245011300178260004100291300002500332500002100357504003300378505136300411520056301774650004002337650006202377650004902439650005202488650006602540650007202606650007302678650002902751650002702780650002102807650003702828650003702865650003902902651004002941651006202981651002603043653007603069856011203145999001503257000000991820251012174510.0 821028s1983 mau b 001 0 eng a0262231131 a9780262231138 ad------00aHD2755.5b.W44 198300a332.6/731421904a338.8/88172421910aThird World multinationals :bthe rise of foreign investment from developing countriescLouis T. Wells, Jr. aCambridge, Mass.bMIT Presscc1983. aviii, 206 p.c24 cm. aIncludes index. aBibliography: p. [193]-200. 0 apt. 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.0 aThis 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. 0aCorporationszDeveloping countries. 0aInternational business enterpriseszDeveloping countries. 4aCorporations, ForeignzDeveloping countries. 6aCorporationszPays en voie de dâeveloppement. 6aEntreprises mutinationaleszPays en voie de dâeveloppement. 7aEntreprises multinationaleszPays en voie de dâeveloppement.2ram 7aInvestissements âetrangerszPays en voie de dâeveloppement.2ram07aAuslandsinvestition2swd07aDirektinvestition2swd07aInvestition2swd07aMultinationales Unternehmen2swd17aBuitenlandse investeringen.2gtt17aInternationale ondernemingen.2gtt 0aDeveloping countriesxCorporations. 0aDeveloping countriesxInternational business enterprises. 7aEntwicklungslèander aForeign investment by multinational companies from developing companies42yInhaltsverzeichnisuhttp://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780262231138.pdfmV:DE-601;Bowker3Inhaltsverzeichnis c4799d4799