Multinational corporations and foreign direct investment : avoiding simplicity, embracing complexity

Multinational corporations and foreign direct investment : avoiding simplicity, embracing complexity / Stephen D. Cohen.

Large companies doing business on a global basis increasingly dominate the production and marketing of the world's goods and services. This book analyses multinational corporations.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Stephen D.
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
International business enterprises > Finance.
Investments, Foreign.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Personal Finance > Investing.
International business enterprises > Finance
Investments, Foreign
Direktinvestition
Multinationales Unternehmen
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • pt. I. Fundamentals
  • 1. A better approach to understanding foreign direct investment and multinational corporations
  • 2. Defining the subject : subtleties and ambiguities
  • 3. From obscurity to international economic powerhouse : the evolution of multinational corporations
  • 4. Heterogeneity : the many kinds of foreign direct investment and multinational corporations and their disparate effects
  • 5. Perceptions and economic ideologies
  • pt. II. The strategy of multinationals
  • 6. Why companies invest overseas
  • 7. Where multinational corporations invest and don't invest and why
  • pt. III. Impact on the international order
  • 8. Effects of foreign direct investment on less developed countries : vagaries, variables, negatives, and positives
  • 9. Why and how multinational corporations have altered international trade
  • 10. Multinational corporations versus the nation-state : has sovereignty been outsourced?
  • 11. The international regulation of multinational corporations : why there is no multilateral foreign direct investment regime
  • 12. The case for foreign direct investment and multinational corporations
  • 13. The case against foreign direct investment and multinational corporations
  • 14. An agnostic conclusion : "it depends"
  • pt. 5. Recommendations
  • 15. An agenda for future action.

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