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Foreign Direct Investment

Firm and Host Country Strategies

Palgrave Macmillan

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  1. Magnus Blomström
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  2. Ari Kokko
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  3. Mario Zejan
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Magnus Blomström, Ari Kokko, Mario Zejan
      Pages 1-11

  3. Firm Strategies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Modes of International Investment

      • Magnus Blomström, Ari Kokko, Mario Zejan
      Pages 15-29

    3. Why Do Multinationals Seek Out Joint Ventures?

      • Magnus Blomström, Ari Kokko, Mario Zejan
      Pages 30-41

    4. MNC Entry Strategies: New Ventures or Acquisitions?

      • Magnus Blomström, Ari Kokko, Mario Zejan
      Pages 42-48

    5. R&D Activities in Affiliates of Swedish MNCs

      • Magnus Blomström, Ari Kokko, Mario Zejan
      Pages 49-62

    6. Intra-firm Trade and Swedish Multinationals

      • Magnus Blomström, Ari Kokko, Mario Zejan
      Pages 63-80

    7. MNCs and Structural Adjustment in Latin America: Lessons from the Debt Crisis

      • Magnus Blomström, Ari Kokko, Mario Zejan
      Pages 81-97

  4. Host Country Strategies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Multinational Corporations and Spillovers

      • Magnus Blomström, Ari Kokko, Mario Zejan
      Pages 101-133

    3. Multinational Corporations and Productivity Convergence in Mexico

      • Magnus Blomström, Ari Kokko, Mario Zejan
      Pages 134-159

    4. Technology, Market Characteristics and Spillovers

      • Magnus Blomström, Ari Kokko, Mario Zejan
      Pages 160-176

    6. Productivity Spillovers from Competition between Local Firms and Foreign Affiliates

      • Magnus Blomström, Ari Kokko, Mario Zejan
      Pages 187-202

    7. Policies to Encourage Inflows of Technology through Foreign Multinationals

      • Magnus Blomström, Ari Kokko, Mario Zejan
      Pages 203-220

    8. Host Country Competition, Labour Skills, and Technology Transfer by Multinationals

      • Magnus Blomström, Ari Kokko, Mario Zejan
      Pages 221-231

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 232-253
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About this book

This book gathers together thirteen articles that deal with the internationalization strategies of firms, effects of foreign investment on host countries and host country policies vis-a-vis foreign multinationals. It illustrates how the behaviour of multinational firms and their effects on the host country are likely to differ between countries in a systematic manner, depending on the host country's economic policies and market conditions and provides a new approach on how to look at multinational firms.
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Reviews

'An excellently crafted monograph. One of the most thorough and incisive economic evaluations of the determinants and impact of foreign direct investments that I have read.' - John H. Dunning, Emeritus Professor of International Business, University of Reading

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About the authors

MAGNUS BLOMSTROM is Professor at the European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics.

ARI KOKKO and MARIO ZEJAN are lecturers at the same institution.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Foreign Direct Investment

  • Book Subtitle: Firm and Host Country Strategies

  • Authors: Magnus Blomström, Ari Kokko, Mario Zejan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598614

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-23141-5Published: 30 June 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59861-4Published: 15 March 2000

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 253

  • Topics: International Business, International Economics, Organization

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