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The choice of location for the production plants of multinational
firms is an important issue, not least because this decision is
accompanied by so many fears brought into public debate. This book
analyses how foreign direct investors choose their locations,
whilst exploring the forces which shape international economic
geography. Although these two issues are, to some extent,
inter-related, researchers have only recently acknowledged the
similarity of economic geography and international business
approaches to the empirical assessment of likely causes of the
degree of spatial concentration observed in many modern industries.
Giving insight into the direction that future research should take,
this book contains state-of-the-art papers on both theoretical and
empirical levels. This original collection makes a particularly
important contribution to our understanding of the existence and
impact of home market effects. Introducing a welcome synthesis
between two related and yet rarely integrated areas of study using
case studies of firms in Europe, US MNEs and the Mexican automobile
industry, this book will be welcomed by both academic and
practising economists. Regional scientists and economists, and
those with a specific interest in international trade issues will
also find the book enlightening.
Multinational Firms and International Relocation addresses the
impact of inward foreign direct investment on the host country and
the extent to which it displaces jobs at home. Multinational firms
in the United States, Japan and the European Union are focused on
by a distinguished group of international business scholars who
include Giovanni Balcet, Pierre-Andre Buigues, Wong Yu Ching, John
H. Dunning, Edward M. Graham, F. Harianto, Thomas Hatzichronglou,
Alexis Jacquemin, Terutomo Ozawa, E. Safarian, Philippe Saucier,
Yoko Sazanami and Hideki Yamawaki. Issues addressed include
European industrial relocations in low wage countries, US direct
investments abroad, the strategies of Japanese multinationals, the
impact of foreign investment on the domestic manufacturing industry
of OECD countries, and multinationals and technology diffusion in
South East Asia. International business scholars, business
strategists and policy makers will welcome Multinational Firms and
International Relocation for the combination of insights and
analysis it offers on the strategies of multinational firms, the
impacts of their relocation policies and the evolution of the
delocalization debate.
When it was originally published this book presented the first
independent review of the critical role played by multinationals in
Europe. Extending its focus beyond 1992, the book examines both the
economic and business strategy frameworks the firms need to develop
to maintain a competitive advantage. Using case-studies from
specific industries, it looks not only at the activity of
multinationals within the single market but explores the
competitive strategies of non-European firms with special emphasis
on Japanese companies which were poised to exploit 1992. The
importance of interaction between multinationals and national
government policies is also analysed taking into account the
integration already achieved.
Contents: Part I: Where Do We Stand? 1. Multinational Enterprises and the End of the Global Strategy 2. Location Determinants of Multinational Firms: the Effects of Firms' Strategic Choices of the WTO Trade-Investment Regime 3. The International Competitiveness of the UK: is it Eroding or Rather Chaging Form? Part II: Globalization and Regional Integration 4. Regional Economic Integration between the EU and Central and Eastern Europe: the Impact Upon FDI and Trade 5. The Locations of US Multinational Firms in the European Community: Determinants of US Foreign Direct Investment into the EC, 1951-1990 6. The Impact of European Integration on FDR: The UK Food Industry in the 1990s 7. The Governance Structure of Japanese Subsidiaries in Western Europe and Evidence Part III: Location Strategies 8. Hierarchical Location Choice and Multinational Firms' Strategy, a Nested Logit Model Applied to Japanese Investment in Europe 9. The Geographic Concentration of FDI in Asia 10. Relocation and Public Aid: a First Report 11. Clusters, Innovation and Growth: a Comparative Study of European Countries
For decades governments, politicians, and trade unions have feared that firms investing abroad involved a loss of employment and a decline in wages for the home country, the implied assumption being that global production and consumption are somehow fixed. Similarly, research on multinational firms has tended to present them as having a number of alternatives - export, licensing or foreign direct investment - for the exploitation of fixed foreign markets. In reality, the complex relationships between parent companies and their foreign affiliates must be examined very carefully and with the most disaggregated statistics available if we are to get an accurate understanding of firms impacts. A major obstacle to this research has been the confidential nature of the necessary data. This collection, with contributions from many distinguished writers in the field, presents work which has been able to exploit relevant data for countries such as the United States, France, Italy, Belgium and Japan. eBook available with sample pages: 0203166701
When it was originally published this book presented the first
independent review of the critical role played by multinationals in
Europe. Extending its focus beyond 1992, the book examines both the
economic and business strategy frameworks the firms need to develop
to maintain a competitive advantage. Using case-studies from
specific industries, it looks not only at the activity of
multinationals within the single market but explores the
competitive strategies of non-European firms with special emphasis
on Japanese companies which were poised to exploit 1992. The
importance of interaction between multinationals and national
government policies is also analysed taking into account the
integration already achieved.
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