The authors discuss the extent and impact of foreign direct investment and multinational activities on the structure and development of individual economies in the industrialised world.
Autorentext
Rajneesh Narula is an Assistant Professor in International Business and Research Fellow at the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) at the University of Limburg.
Zusammenfassung
Multinational Investment and Economic Structure examines the relationship between industrial development and foreign direct investment (FDI) activities, and the interaction between multinational (MNE) activity and economic structures. It deals with the changing structure of the world economy as a whole, and the dynamics of the relationship between industrial development and the extent of FDI activities across countries. It evaluates the concurrent (and interrelated) evolutionary processes behind economic growth and MNE activity and how these evolutionary forces impact on the economic structure of individual economies in the industrialised world as their economies converge through globalisation.
Inhalt
1 INTRODUCTION 2 THE DYNAMICS OF FDI AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 3 A CROSS-SECTIONAL TEST OF THE IDP 4 NATURAL AND CREATED ASSETS AS DETERMINANTS OF FDI 5 GLOBALISATION, HOMOGENEITY AMONG INDUSTRIALISED COUNTRIES AND DIFFERENCES IN FDI PATTERNS 6 COUNTRY-SPECIFIC FACTORS, TRADE AND FDI PATTERNS OVER THE 1980s 7 TRANSPACIFIC FDI: A FORTY-YEAR VIEW OF CHANGING COMPETITIVENESS 8 SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS