Foreign Direct Investments in U.S.,1974-1978

The subject of foreign investments in U.S remains of high interest from both an academic and real world prospective. Since the 1970's, the flow of foreign investments has accelerated, and particularly since 1975.In 1975, the authors of this paper complied a directory of foreign manufacturing firms in U.S.11Arpan and Ricks, Directory of foreign manufacturers in the U.S., Georgia State University, 1975. The directory was the result of pulling together the known data available on foreign investors in U.S. as of 1974. So much has happened since then, however, that the authors have completed a 1979 edition. This note compares the two directories in order to make several rather interesting observations as to recent trends of foreign direct investments in the U.S.© 1979 JIBS. Journal of International Business Studies (1979) 10, 85–88