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Description

1. viii, 206 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. 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 addition 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.

Subject

1. Investissements étrangers > Pays en voie de développement
2. Foreign investment by multinational companies from developing companies
3. Buitenlandse investeringen
4. Corporations, Foreign > Developing countries
5. Internationale ondernemingen
6. Corporations > Pays en voie de développement
7. International business enterprises > Developing countries
8. Entreprises multinationales > Pays en voie de développement
9. Entreprises mutinationales > Pays en voie de développement
10. Multinationales Unternehmen
11. Investition
12. Auslandsinvestition
13. Corporations > Developing countries
14. Direktinvestition
15. Entwicklungsländer

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. [193]-200.