Multinational enterprise and public policy : a study of the industrial countries
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Multinational enterprise and public policy : a study of the industrial countries
（New horizons in international business）
E. Elgar, c1993
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 538-567) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Multinational Enterprise and Public Policy is a timely and instructive analysis of the relations between multinational corporations and the governments of the industrialized states. Traditional studies have emphasized the activities of multinational corporations in the developing economies, while ignoring their less dramatic, but no less significant, role in the political and economic life of the industrialized nations.A.E. Safarian has written a comprehensive account of policy development in 15 industrial countries over the past three decades which questions both the motivation and effectiveness of government policy in relation to multinationals. He explains how government policies have evolved, comparing the application of specific policies such as restricted sectors, investment review and investment incentives. In conclusion, he offers a masterly assessment of recent progress towards more liberal and better targeted government policies.
This work offers a wealth of data and makes a comparative analysis that has rarely been attempted on this scale before. It will be an invaluable reference companion for every serious student of international business.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Governments and multinationals: what governments are trying to do
- constraints on national policy - MNE strategy
- country strategies - opportunities and constraints. Part 2 Country policies - origins, nature, effectiveness: the approach to the country studies
- establishment review - the natural resource-based economies, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden
- other countries with review - France, Japan
- host countries lacking review - Belgium, Ireland, Italy
- home countries lacking review - Federal Republic of Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States. Part 3 A comparative evaluation of policies: origins of policies
- effectiveness of policies
- the new policies - managed internationalism in the 1980s. Appendices: List of interviews
- letters to interviewees
- selected decisions on investment proposals
- variables used to measure the determinants of policy on FDI in Chapter 10.
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