TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ietto-Gillies, Grazia
TI  - Transnational corporations and international production: concepts theories and effects
SN  - 9781845422554
U1  - 338 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cheltenham
PB  - Edward Elgar
KW  - International business enterprises
KW  - International trade
KW  - Industrial productivity
N1  - pt. I. Concepts --
1. The transnational corporation --
2. Foreign direct investment and other international business activities --
Appendix to part I : definitions and data issues --
pt. II. Pre-WWII approaches to international investment --
3. Marxist approaches --
4. Foreign investment within the neoclassical paradigm --
pt. III. Modern theories --
5. Hymer's seminal work --
6. The product life cycle and international production --
7. Oligopolistic reactions and the geographical pattern of FDI --
8. Currency areas and internationalization --
9. Internalization and the transnational corporation --
10. Dunning's eclectic framework --
11. Stages in the internationalization process : the Scandinavian school --
12. Technological accumulation and international activities --
13. New trade theories and the activities of TNCs --
14. Transnational monopoly capitalism --
15. Nation-states and TNCs' strategic behaviour --
pt. IV. Effects --
16. Methodological issues --
17. Specific effects : performance --
18. Specific effects : labour --
19. Specific effects : trade --
20. Specific effects : balance of payments
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