Foreign Direct Investment and Governments: Catalysts for economic restructuring / Edition 1

by John Dunning, Rajneesh Narula

Overview

This new paperback edition of Foreign Direct Investment and Governments examines the dynamic relationship between foreign direct investment, governments and economic development. The book includes:
* an investigation of the catalytic role played by the governments and multinationals in determining national advantages
* eleven in-depth national studies of the UK, USA, Japan, New Zealand, India, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, China, Indonesia and Taiwan
* analysis of all aspects of the investment development path
Foreign Direct Investment and Governments is an excellent source book for students of international business.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415173551
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/25/1997
Series:	Studies in International Business and the World Economy , #3
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	470
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Dunning, Rajneesh Narula

Table of Contents

1. The Investment Development Path Revisited: Some Emerging Issues John H. Dunning and Rajneesh Narula 2. The United Kingdom: a Par Excellence Two-way Direct Investor Jeremy Clegg 3. The United States: Some Musings on its Investment Development Path Edward M. Graham 4. Sweden: a Latecomer to Industrialization Ivo Zander and Udo Zander 5. Japan: the Macro-IDP, Meso-IDPs and the Technology Development Path (TDP) Terutomo Ozawa 6. New Zealand: the Development of a Resource-rich Economy Mich‘ele Akoorie 7. Spain: a Boom from Economic Integration Jos'e Manuel Campa and Mauro F. Guill'en 8. Mexico: Foreign Investment as a Source of International Competitiveness Alvaro Calder'on, Michael Mortimore and Wilson Peres 9. Taiwan: Foreign Direct Investment and the Transformation of the Economy Roger van Hoesel 10. Indonesia: the Critical Role of Government Donald J. Lecraw 11. India: Industrialization, Liberalization and Inward and Outward Foreign Direct Investment Nagesh Kumar 12. China: Rapid Changes in the Investment Development Path Hai-Yan Zhang and Danny Van Den Bulcke 13. The Investment Development Path: Some Conclusions Sanjaya Lall

Editorial Reviews

Makes available in paper binding a collection of 13 papers, which were presented in their first draft at a December 1994 workshop in Rotterdam. Topics include emerging issues in the investment development path, a case study of the UK as a two-way direct investor, Sweden as a latecomer to industrialization, the development of the resource-rich economy in New Zealand, industrialization and liberalization in India, foreign investment as a source of international competitiveness in Mexico, and the critical role of government in Indonesia. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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