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Item Details
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TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION
CONCEPTS, THEORIES AND EFFECTS |
| By: |
Grazia Ietto-Gillies |
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Paperback |
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£25.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1845422554 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781845422554 |
| Publisher: |
EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD |
| Pub. date: |
29 March, 2005 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
This unique textbook provides a comprehensive critical analysis of modern theories, concepts and effects relating to transnational corporations and international production. Its user-friendly presentation includes boxes to highlight key concepts as well as suggestions for further reading. |
| Synopsis: |
This unique textbook provides a comprehensive critical analysis of modern theories, concepts and effects relating to transnational corporations and international production. Its user-friendly presentation includes boxes to highlight key concepts as well as suggestions for further reading.The text begins with a clear and concise discussion of basic concepts, and goes on to examine various theoretical approaches, topics and authors including: * Hymer, Vernon, Knickerbocker, Aliber, Dunning, Cantwell, Cowling and Sugden * the Internalisation Theory, the Scandinavian School, and the New Trade Theory approaches * Pre-WWII Marxist and neoclassical approaches to international investment.Finally, Grazia Ietto-Gillies deals with methodological issues in the assessment of effects as well as with specific effects on performance, labour, international trade and the balance of payments.Bringing together wide-ranging research literature on TNCs for the first time, this textbook will be invaluable to post graduate and advanced undergraduate students of a variety of disciplines including business/international business, economics, international relations, and development studies. Lecturers and researchers wishing to familiarize themselves with the theoretical developments of the subject will also find the book of enormous interest. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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