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_aHD2755.5 _b.W44 1983 |
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_aThird World multinationals : _bthe rise of foreign investment from developing countries _cLouis T. Wells, Jr. |
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_aCambridge, Mass. _bMIT Press _cc1983. |
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_aviii, 206 p. _c24 cm. |
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| 500 | _aIncludes index. | ||
| 504 | _aBibliography: p. [193]-200. | ||
| 505 | 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. | |
| 520 | 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. | |
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_aCorporations _zDeveloping countries. |
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| 650 | 0 |
_aInternational business enterprises _zDeveloping countries. |
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| 650 | 4 |
_aCorporations, Foreign _zDeveloping countries. |
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| 650 | 6 |
_aCorporations _zPays en voie de dâeveloppement. |
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| 650 | 6 |
_aEntreprises mutinationales _zPays en voie de dâeveloppement. |
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| 650 | 7 |
_aEntreprises multinationales _zPays en voie de dâeveloppement. _2ram |
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| 650 | 7 |
_aInvestissements âetrangers _zPays en voie de dâeveloppement. _2ram |
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| 650 | 0 | 7 |
_aAuslandsinvestition _2swd |
| 650 | 0 | 7 |
_aDirektinvestition _2swd |
| 650 | 0 | 7 |
_aInvestition _2swd |
| 650 | 0 | 7 |
_aMultinationales Unternehmen _2swd |
| 650 | 1 | 7 |
_aBuitenlandse investeringen. _2gtt |
| 650 | 1 | 7 |
_aInternationale ondernemingen. _2gtt |
| 651 | 0 |
_aDeveloping countries _xCorporations. |
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| 651 | 0 |
_aDeveloping countries _xInternational business enterprises. |
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| 651 | 7 | _aEntwicklungslèander | |
| 653 | _aForeign investment by multinational companies from developing companies | ||
| 856 | 4 | 2 |
_yInhaltsverzeichnis _uhttps://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780262231138.pdf _mV:DE-601;Bowker _3Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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