Multinational Corporations and Foreign Direct Investment Avoiding Simplicity, Embracing Complexity

Name: Multinational Corporations and Foreign Direct Investment Avoiding Simplicity, Embracing Complexity
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ISBN: 9780195179361

ISBN-10: 0195179366

ISBN-13: 9780195179361

Edition: 2006

Authors: Stephen D. Cohen

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Foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational corporations (MNCs)--for better and worse--play a large and growing role in shaping our world. The integrating thesis of this book is the inevitability of heterogeneity in FDI and MNCs and, accordingly, the imperative of disaggregation. Large companies doing business on a global basis increasingly dominate the production and marketing of the world's goods and services. The importance of these companies continues to grow while the debate about their nature and effects remains mired in a long-standing stalemate couched in strong black and white terms. Stephen D. Cohen seeks to reconcile this impasse by analyzing multinational corporations and…

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List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/3/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Abbreviations


Introduction



Fundamentals



A Better Approach to Understanding Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations



Defining the Subject: Subtleties and Ambiguities



From Obscurity to International Economic Powerhouse: The Evolution of Multinational Corporations



Heterogeneity: The Many Kinds of Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations and Their Disparate Effects



Perceptions and Economic Ideologies



The Strategy of Multinationals



Why Companies Invest Overseas



Where Multinational Corporations Invest and Don't Invest and Why



Impact on the International Order



Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Less Developed Countries: Vagaries, Variables, Negatives, and Positives



Why and How Multinational Corporations Have Altered International Trade



Multinational Corporations versus the Nation-State: Has Sovereignty Been Outsourced?



The International Regulation of Multinational Corporations: Why There Is No Multilateral Foreign Direct Investment Regime



The Case for Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations



The Case against Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations



An Agnostic Conclusion: "It Depends"



Recommendations



An Agenda for Future Action


Index