Download or read book Sociology of Underdevelopment written by Rajendra Pandey and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1970 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Technological Innovation and Third World Multinationals written by Paz Estrella Tolentino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examines the relationship between technological growth and outward direct investment from firms in Asia and Latin America which has become increasingly siginificant as these countries develop.

Download or read book Multi National Corporations and Third World Development written by Pradip K. Ghosh and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1984-09-25 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles on the influence of multinational enterprise on economic and social development in the developing countries - examines the effects of MNEs on economic growth, industrial restructuring, employment creation, technological change, consumption patterns, etc.; discusses their role in world trade and the New International Economic Order; reviews patterns of government policy (incl. Economic policy) towards MNEs in the developing countries; includes a directory of information sources and an annotated bibliography. Graphs, references, statistical tables.

Download or read book The Role of Multinational Companies in the Middle East written by Mamarinta P. Mababaya and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigated whether known economic and international business theories available in the literature are meaningful enough to explain the nature, existence and role of multinational companies (MNCs) in the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia. Two sets of questionnaires were distributed in major cities of Saudi Arabia -- one set for 100 multinational managers and another for 280 multinational customers. 234 questionnaires were collected -- 45 from multinational managers and 189 from customers. This represents a total response rate of 62 percent, which is adequate for this study.The empirical results, supported with comprehensive secondary data, confirmed virtually all of the research hypotheses. The study found that joint ventures are the dominant form of multinational business in Saudi Arabia, both in manufacturing and service industries. The core roles of MNCs in the Saudi-foreign ventures are evident in the cross-border value-adding activities of marketing, trading, manufacturing, consulting, contracting, project management, insurance, hotel operation and banking. Likewise, MNCs provide licensing, franchising, financing services and various auxiliary roles in the Kingdom. Therefore, the multinationality of a firm or a group of firms operating across national boundaries is not necessarily synonymous with international production -- the main subject of contemporary multinational theories.The respondents generally perceived the competitiveness of MNCs operating in Saudi Arabia as a function of a number of economic, management, marketing, technological and other variables. They also perceived the contributions of MNCs to the KingdomÍs socio-economic developments as significant and positive.The study also found that understanding Islamic values and ethics is important for MNCs. In this regard, the researcher looked at some objective indicators of business success and related them to selected measures of MNCsÍ local cultural awareness and responsiveness. The results indicate that the business success of multinationals operating in Saudi Arabia is positively related to their local cultural awareness and responsiveness. Along this line, this study covers some vital elements of Islamic culture, which will help MNCs understand further the cultural needs, values and sensitivities of the Saudi people and Muslims in general.

Download or read book International Business Success in a Strange Cultural Environment written by Mamarinta P. Mababaya and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on the cultural aspect of the author's published PhD thesis entitled "The Role of Multinational Companies in the Middle East: The Case of Saudi Arabia", which he has carried out at the University of Westminster. It explores the success of multinational enterprises doing business in Saudi Arabia vis-à-vis their cultural awareness and responsiveness. The empirical findings discussed in this book reveal that international business success in a strange cultural environment depends partly on the ability of multinational managers to understand the local culture. The cultural subject in this book pertains to Islam in its entirety. The findings may seem strange to many readers who are not familiar with Islamic culture, in its purest form. Many newcomers to Saudi Arabia -- especially non-Muslim foreign investors, businessmen and workers -- often find many things "strange" about the Kingdom, its people and cultural values. Some feel it odd that many Muslims give more importance to prayer than business. Some are disappointed when they find commercial establishments like shopping centres closed as Muslim workers go to the mosques to attend to their daily prayers. Business visitors find strange the fact that in the midst of their meetings with their Saudi or Muslim counterparts, the latter excuse themselves for prayer. They have these "strange" feelings due to their lack of understanding of true Islamic culture. The cultural aspect of this book will help businessmen and concerned institutions worldwide gain understanding of Islam and reconcile their cultural differences with the Muslim world. Through this book, international companies will be able to have a better understanding of authentic Islamic culture, which will help them gain greater competitive advantages in the Saudi marketplace.

Download or read book Investing in Development written by Theodore Moran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume surveys current views in the debate about the impact of foreign direct investment on Third World development--on growth, employment, exports, technology, and distribution of income. It examines whether the efforts of less developed countries to attract and control multinational corporations have constituted a serious "distortion" of trade that threatens jobs in the home nations. It provides new studies of foreign investment in agriculture and in the least developed states. It looks at the threat of transmitting environmental pollution. And it analyzes the link between international companies and the "umbrella" of World Bank cofinancing as a mechanism to reduce risk. Finally, it attempts to estimate how much of the "gap" in commercial bank lending might plausibly be filled by direct corporate investment over the next decade.

Download or read book The Journal of Developing Areas written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Critical Intersections written by M.D. Litonjua and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is all about intersections. Living is where sorrow meets joy, where pain encounters ecstasy, where the weakness of the flesh is buoyed by the strength of faith, where love conquers all doubts and betrayals. Marriage is for better and worse, for richer and poorer, in sickness and health; it is for life and death. Spirituality is the arduous integration of lifes dispositions and tendencies, of ones urges and habits, for the whole to reach out in transcendence to ones fellow human beings and to God. Growth to Christian maturity is actualizing the intersecting, because cruciform, demands of love of God and love of neighbor, which follows the path that leads from Good Friday to Easter Sunday. Academic life is also becoming one of intersections. After the increasing structural differentiation and functional specialization characteristic of modernity, academic disciplines are critically intersecting and cross-fertilizing with each other for integration, enrichment, and further enlightenment. The behavioral sciences need genetics and biology for a more adequate explanation of human behavior. Homo oeconomicus of neoclassical economics is complemented by the realities of power of homo sociologicus. Theology calls on the social sciences, in addition to its ancient ancilla, philosophy, to make moral sense of social and global problems. Interdisciplinary courses try to make connections between the disciplines students have studied, and to integrate the breadth and the depth of knowledge they have been exposed to.

Download or read book What Can Multinationals Do for Peasants written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The International Political Economy and the Developing Countries written by Stephan Haggard and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book International Regulation of Transnational Corporations written by Kwamena Acquaah and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1986-09-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unable to organize their collective power, Third World countries depend on international regulations on foreign investment and transfer of technology to balance the economic scales more in their favor. This is the first book to research the history of such regulation and suggests strategies to policy officials and transnational corporation officers for improving regulation in the future. Examining the international community from political, economic, and legal perspectives, it gives a comprehensive understanding of all the issues involved in regulation.

Download or read book Journal of Business and Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Politics of Import Substitution and the Industrialization Process written by Chibuzo Samson Agomo Ogbuagu and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Impact of Modernization on Developing Nation Consumption Patterns the Case of Mexico written by Jose Francisco Medina and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer in Developing Countries written by Ramesh Chandra Chitrakar and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study concerned with two important issues facing developing countries in general and Nepal in particular: how to attract foreign investment and how to benefit from it. It also compares foreign investment policy in Nepal with that in other developing countries and makes financial and economic analyses of foreign investment and technology transfer firms in Nepal.