Ietto-Gillies, Grazia <br/><br/>
Transnational corporations and international production: concepts theories and effects/ 
Grazia Ietto-Gillies 
 - Cheltenham:  Edward Elgar,  2005. 
 - xiii, 252 p. :  ill. ;  26 cm. 
<br/><br/>pt. I. Concepts --<br/>1. The transnational corporation --<br/>2. Foreign direct investment and other international business activities --<br/>Appendix to part I : definitions and data issues --<br/>pt. II. Pre-WWII approaches to international investment --<br/>3. Marxist approaches --<br/>4. Foreign investment within the neoclassical paradigm --<br/>pt. III. Modern theories --<br/>5. Hymer's seminal work --<br/>6. The product life cycle and international production --<br/>7. Oligopolistic reactions and the geographical pattern of FDI --<br/>8. Currency areas and internationalization --<br/>9. Internalization and the transnational corporation --<br/>10. Dunning's eclectic framework --<br/>11. Stages in the internationalization process : the Scandinavian school --<br/>12. Technological accumulation and international activities --<br/>13. New trade theories and the activities of TNCs --<br/>14. Transnational monopoly capitalism --<br/>15. Nation-states and TNCs' strategic behaviour --<br/>pt. IV. Effects --<br/>16. Methodological issues --<br/>17. Specific effects : performance --<br/>18. Specific effects : labour --<br/>19. Specific effects : trade --<br/>20. Specific effects : balance of payments. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781845422554 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>International business enterprises<br/>International trade<br/>Industrial productivity
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338  / GIL/T