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245 1 0 _aThird World multinationals :
_bthe rise of foreign investment from developing countries
_cLouis T. Wells, Jr.
260 _aCambridge, Mass.
_bMIT Press
_cc1983.
300 _aviii, 206 p.
_c24 cm.
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.
650 0 _aCorporations
_zDeveloping countries.
650 0 _aInternational business enterprises
_zDeveloping countries.
650 4 _aCorporations, Foreign
_zDeveloping countries.
650 6 _aCorporations
_zPays en voie de dâeveloppement.
650 6 _aEntreprises mutinationales
_zPays en voie de dâeveloppement.
650 7 _aEntreprises multinationales
_zPays en voie de dâeveloppement.
_2ram
650 7 _aInvestissements âetrangers
_zPays en voie de dâeveloppement.
_2ram
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.
651 0 _aDeveloping countries
_xInternational business enterprises.
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
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