The Multilateral Investment System and Multinational Enterprises

ISBN-13: 9780198293156 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 320 str.

Thomas L. Brewer; Stephen Young

Opis

Brewer and Young examine the future of the world economy and the key economic and political forces that will shape it. Considering the implications of historically important changes in the world economy in recent years, including the expansion of the international investments of multinational corporations and the new role of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the authors present numerous examples of how countries have changed their international trade and investment policies, and examine how these changes are affecting firms' strategies and operations worldwide. This book explains the importance to international investment, as well as trade and technology transfer, of the many agreements being implemented by the WTO, and discusses the roles of other international agencies such as the UN, World Bank, OECD, EU, and NAFTA.

Recenzje

This is a timely study of an important and complex set of issues which has rarely received the comprehensive treatment it requires. . . . This study has many admirable features. It is firmly grounded in the key concepts of economics, politics and business theory as they apply to TNCs, and it has a detailed historical base. It has obvious current relevance . . . it lays out the conflicting principles and viewpoints both within and between developing and developed countries while proposing some intermediate solutions to the deeper incursions into national policy which many governments resist. It contains an extraordinary range of tables, summaries and cases relating to everything from the contents of existing international agreement to details on the subsidies available to TNCs.

O autorze

Professor Brewer is Editor-in-Chief Designate of the Journal of International Business Studies.