Title: Multinationals on the periphery /
Authors: Benito, Gabriel R. G.; Narula, Rajneesh, 1963-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2007
Subjects: International business enterprises.; Industrial location.; Globalization Economic aspects
Contents: States and firms on the periphery : the challenges of a globalizing world / Gabriel R.G. Benito and Rajneesh Narula -- Can domestically owned manufacturing firms of small developing economies compete in a liberalized trading environment? / Lou Anne A. Barclay -- Internationalization of Estonian manufacturing enterprises : are foreign investors dictating the rules of the game? / Ele Reiljan -- The internationalization patterns of Norwegian firms : does industry matter? / Birgitte Grøgaard and Gabriel R.G. Benito -- The pace of internationalization for small and medium-sized enterprises / Siv Marina Karlsen -- Public policy, FDI attraction and multinational subsidiary evolution : the contrasting cases of Ireland and Portugal / Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann -- MNCs in the periphery : DaimlerChrysler South Africa (DCSA), human capital upgrading and regional economic development / Jochen Lorentzen -- Outside the triad : an examination of international R&D investments within peripheral economies / Björn Ambos and Tina C. Ambos -- Moving out of the country : an exploratory study of the impact of country, cluster and firm-related factors / Carl Arthur Solberg -- Centre and periphery in the WTO : the case of TRIPS / Helene Hoggen.