Download or read book Foreign Multinationals and the British Economy written by Stephen Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1988, examines the impact of multinational companies on the British economy and the British government’s policy responses. It assesses the effects of multinationals both on the national economy and on different regions and evaluates the benefits and problems brought by overseas companies. It looks at how government has attempted to entice multinationals to invest, and the UK government’s success in these attraction efforts as compared with other countries. Regulatory aspects of policy are also reviewed and evaluated, and consideration is given to possible new policy approaches. This title will be of interest to students of business studies.

Download or read book Britain and the Multinationals written by John Stopford and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1986-02-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the history and impact British and foreign multinationals have had on the economy and political structure of the United Kingdom. Integrates history with current analysis of investment flows and the effects they have on the economy. Raises the questions of why the British economy, in spite of low growth, deindustrialization and high unemployment, attracts international investment. Provides a readable overview of the phenomenon by integrating strategy, economics and politics.

Download or read book Multinational Firms in the World Economy written by Giorgio Barba Navaretti and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depending on one's point of view, multinational enterprises are either the heroes or the villains of the globalized economy. Governments compete fiercely for foreign direct investment by such companies, but complain when firms go global and move their activities elsewhere. Multinationals are seen by some as threats to national identities and wealth and are accused of riding roughshod over national laws and of exploiting cheap labor. However, the debate on these companies and foreign direct investment is rarely grounded on sound economic arguments. This book brings clarity to the debate. With the contribution of other leading experts, Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Anthony Venables assess the determinants of multinationals' actions, investigating why their activity has expanded so rapidly, and why some countries have seen more such activity than others. They analyze their effects on countries that are recipients of inward investments, and on those countries that see multinational firms moving jobs abroad. The arguments are made using modern advances in economic analysis, a case study, and by drawing on the extensive empirical literature that assesses the determinants and consequences of activity by multinationals. The treatment is rigorous, yet accessible to all readers with a background in economics, whether students or professionals. Drawing out policy implications, the authors conclude that multinational enterprises are generally a force for the promotion of prosperity in the world economy.

Download or read book Foreign Multinationals in the United States written by Lina Gálvez-Muñoz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, leading scholars in international business and business history in the United States, Europe and Japan examine the experiences of a range of firms in the United States. They survey British, Canadian, French, German, Spanish and Japanese firms, and span a range of sectors including automobiles, banking, electricals, petroleum and steel. Together, their contributions present a unique evolutionary and comparative perspective on the management and performance of foreign companies in the United States since 1945. This book is essential reading for all those with a professional or academic interest in international business, management, business history or business in the United States.

Download or read book Multinational Enterprises and Host Country Development written by Holger Görg and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multinational Enterprises and Host Country Development is a unique collection of papers looking at different aspects of the link between multinational enterprises and their effects on the host countries' economies. The volume studies effects of multinationals on R&D, innovation, productivity, wages, as well as growth and survival of firms in the host countries, and distinguishes direct and indirect effects through spillovers. All the analyses are conducted using firm level data for countries as diverse as China, Ireland, Sweden, Ghana, the UK or a group of countries in Central and Eastern Europe. This volume is a valuable reading for graduate students and researchers wishing to investigate the impact of multinationals.

Download or read book International Big Business written by Labour Party (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy written by John H. Dunning and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 947 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years to come this volume. . .is surely going to be the ultimate reference work on international business. . . thanks to Dunning and Lundan, have at their disposal, a wealth of relevant data, as well as theoretical and empirical analyses, which will enable them to assess the capabilities, contributions and challenges posed by the multinational enterprises to the global economy. Seev Hirsch, International Business Review Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy has become a classic in international business. . . Yet , the book s second edition is even better than the first, in part because of Professor Dunning s wise decision to choose Dr Lundan as his co-author and to draw upon her deep knowledge of various strands of research on business government relations and the societal effects of firm behaviour. . . In addition to being a remarkably useful reference book, Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy is the first book any IB doctoral student should read to understand the significance and richness of IB scholarship as it has developed over the past 50 years. Alain Verbeke, Journal of International Business Studies The second edition of Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy provides unparalleled coverage not only of the literature relevant to IB research but also of the evolution of IB in the world economy. Dunning and Lundan offer powerful insights into the societal effects of MNEs and the role of business government relations in the IB context. Journal of International Business Studies This wonderful book offers the definitive synthesis of the modern literature on the economic aspects of international business. It is encyclopedic yet full of incisive insights. It is a creative masterpiece which unbundles the DNA of the multinational enterprise and shows how it is the cornerstone of the field of international business. Alan M. Rugman, University of Reading, UK The rise of the multinational enterprise, and the consequent globalisation of the world economy, was arguably the single most important phenomenon of the second half of the twentieth century. This magisterial book, written by two leading authorities, examines this phenomenon in depth. It explains how foreign investment by multinationals diffused advanced technologies and novel management methods, driving productivity growth in Europe, Asia and North America; however, economic inequalities were reinforced as rich countries attracted more foreign investment than poor ones. This new edition of a classic work is not only an authoritative guide to contemporary multinational business, but a major historical resource for the future. Mark Casson, University of Reading, UK This thoroughly updated and revised edition of a widely acclaimed, classic text will be required reading for academics, policymakers and advanced students of international business worldwide. Employing a distinctive and unified framework, this book draws together research across a range of academic fields to offer a synthesis of the determinants of MNE activity, and its effects on the economic and social well-being of developed and developing countries. Unique to the new edition is its focus on the institutional underpinnings of the resources and capabilities of MNEs, and the role of MNE activity in transmitting and facilitating institutional change. Since the initial publication of this book more than a decade ago, the economic, managerial and social implications of globalisation and technological advancement have become even more varied and prominent. Accompanying these developments, there has been a rise in scholarly interest in interdisciplinary research addressing the important challenges of an ever-changing physical and human environment. Drawing on articles and books from international business and economics, as well as economic geography, political economy and strategic management, a systematic overview of the developments in scholarly thinking is prese

Download or read book An Introduction to the Multinationals written by Margaret Allen and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-02-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Britain for Sale written by Alex Brummer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Buy British!’ we often hear, and many foreign companies have done just that. US food giant Kraft bought Cadbury in 2010, Dutch group AkzoNobel acquired ICI in 2007, Deutsche Bahn now own Arriva, and that’s just the beginning. The truth is that hundreds of billions of pounds’ worth of British businesses have been sold off abroad in recent years. But what does this takeover bonanza mean for our future economic health? In Britain for Sale, award-winning financial journalist Alex Brummer investigates this question, explaining why British companies are so irresistible to overseas buyers and weighing up the true cost of these transactions.

Download or read book Merchants to Multinationals written by Geoffrey Jones and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-03-07 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merchants to Multinationals examines the evolution of multinational trading companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major trade intermediaries and subsequently engaged in foreign direct investment. Complex multinational business groups emerged controlling large investments in natural resources, processing, and services in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. While theories of the firm predict the demise over time of merchant firms, this book identifies the continued resilience of British trading companies despite the changing political and business environments of the twentieth century. Like Japanese trading companies, they 're-invented' themselves in successive generations. The competences of the trading companies resided in their information-gathering, relationship-building, human resource, and corporate governance systems. This book provides a new dimension to the literature on international business through the focus on multinational service firms and its evolutionary approach based on confidential business records.

Download or read book Inward Investment Technological Change and Growth written by N. Pain and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-12-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers from the NIESR conference at the British Academy identifies the channels through which inward investment can affect host economies, and provides quantitative evidence on the extent to which inward investment has acted to shape the size and structure of industrialised economies over the last decade. Leading authors in the fields of international investment and the behaviour of national and multinational firms combine innovative methodologies and firm-level data to enable empirical evaluation of the impact of inward investment. Detailed studies of aspects of inward investment in the UK are put into context through a review of existing literature and by comparison of UK developments to those experienced by French, Italian, German and US economies.

Download or read book Britain for Sale written by Alex Brummer and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Foreign Direct Investment Statistics How Countries Measure FDI written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign Direct Investment Statistics: How Countries Measure FDI shows progress in recent years in moving toward compilation in accordance with international standards that have been established by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the ...

Download or read book Multinational Enterprises and their hosts An impact assessment on the United Kingdom written by Alexander Dürr and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2004-12-29 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, grade: 1,0 (A), Leeds Metropolitan University (Leeds Business School), course: International Business, language: English, abstract: The desire to attract inward investment is one of the few industrial policies pursued consistently by successive UK governments over the past twenty five years. (Pain, N.) It is widely recognized that foreign direct investment (FDI) may play a significant role in helping to transfer leading-edge skills, technologies, management styles and other best practices to host economies. (Potter, J. & Moore, B. & Spires, R., 2003) However, research that has assessed the benefits (and costs) of attracting foreign direct investments into host states and regions demonstrates that foreign firms, even within the same industry sector, may differ considerably in their ability to contribute to host regions’ economies. (Potter, J. & Moore, B. & Spires, R., 2003) This work will assess the impact of Multinational Enterprises on the British economy . With regards to Daniels, J. & Radebough, L. (2004) “a company that has a worldwide approach to markets and production is known as an MNE. It usually undertakes nearly every type of international business practice.” For the purpose of this work a MNE will further be defined as a company who owns and controls assets. The report is fundamentally structured into three parts. First there will be given a brief overview about foreign direct investment flows into the United Kingdom. The second part will analyse the cost and benefits of FDI for the United Kingdom both in theoretical and empirical terms. Based on the assessment the last section will suggest policy implications. The work is based on secondary research to a large extent.

Download or read book The Growth of Multinationals written by Mira Wilkins and published by Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : E. Elgar. This book was released on 1991 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new anthology - prepared by a leading business historian - presents the outstanding contributions on the history of US, British, Continental European and Japanese multinational corporations and constitutes an introduction to the subject. The first part has four survey articles showing the origins of the multinational enterprise in the late 19th century and the subsequent developments. It then presents pioneer studies and offers a range of new perspectives on the history of multinationals. The final parts of the book contain case studies as well as articles on the history of the operations of multinational enterprises in such host countries as Britain, China, Japan and Poland. This authoritative volume provides an indispensable guide to the state-of-the-art research on the history of multinationals.

Download or read book Multinational Corporations and National Government written by Michael Hodges and published by Farnborough, Hants. (D. C. Heath Limited, Westmead, Farnborough, Hants.) : Saxon House ; Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books. This book was released on 1974 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised thesis comprising a case study of foreign investment in the UK from 1964 to 1970, to illustrate relations between multinational enterprises and national (State) governments - covers economic policies regarding competition and the role of USA-based firms, etc., considers the case of the computer and motor vehicle industries, and includes the results of an attitude survey of politicians and administrators. References and statistical tables.

Download or read book British Multinationals written by Geoffrey Jones and published by Aldershot, Hants ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Gower. This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: