Multinational Service Firms

ISBN-13: 9780415643191 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 304 str.

Peter Enderwick

Opis

This volume presents a world survey of multinational firms in the key parts of the service sector. The service sector has grown greatly in importance in recent years in many countries of the world. Many of the key parts of the service sector that are growing most rapidly are dominated by large multinational firms and this has important implications for the future shape of the world economy and for closer economic integration between countries.

Spis treści

Preface. List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Part 1 1. Some Economics of Service-Sector Multinational Enterprises Peter Enderwick 2. Service Trade by the Multinational Enterprise James R Markusen. Part 2 3. Multinational Banking Herbert G Grubel. 4. Internationalisation of Professional Producer Services: Accountancy Conglomerates Peter W Daniels, Nigel J Thrift, A Leyshorn. 5. Multinational News Agencies Oliver Boyd-Barret. 6. Multinational Contracting Peter Enderwick. Part 3 7. Soviet and Eastern European Service Multinationals Malcolm R Hill. 8. Third World Multinationals in the Service Industries Donald J Lecraw. Part 4 9. Policy Issues in International Trade and Investment in Services Peter Enderwick. 10. Conclusions Peter Enderwick. Bibliography. Index.

O autorze

Peter Enderwick