After a joint venture agreement with a high-income country’s firm, an export-oriented but technologically backward firm in a low-income country may earn higher profit, but may not be able to improve its export market performance, unless the world market size is large. In a two-firm-two-country...

ILO pub. Working paper analysing the increasing role of developing countries in multinational enterprise operations and the effects of their choice of technology on employment creation in developing countries - describes small- scale and labour intensive technology, small size of enterprise,...

ILO pub. Working paper analysing the increasing role of developing countries in multinational enterprise operations and the effects of their choice of technology on employment creation in developing countries - describes small- scale and labour intensive technology, small size of enterprise,...

ILO pub. Working paper, research report on personnel management decision making in foreign owned subsidiarys of multinational enterprises and international joint ventures - discusses legal aspects, the role of absentee top management, host country employers organizations and other interest...

Covers trends in the 1980s and 1990s. Includes case studies of social and labour policies in eight companies.

ILO pub. Working paper analysing the increasing role of developing countries in multinational enterprise operations and the effects of their choice of technology on employment creation in developing countries - describes small- scale and labour intensive technology, small size of enterprise,...

Examines the structural features and operational characteristics of the two EPZs, as well as their socio-economic consequences for the host country. The data analysed in this respect relate to the period covering the inception of the two EPZs, up to 1996 - Chittagong EPZ (1983 to 1996) and Dhaka...

There are four major modes through which firms undertake foreign direct investment (FDI) – merger and acquisition (M&A), joint venture (JV), new plant (NP) and others (O). The four modes of FDI are distinct from each other, and each has its own unique advantages and disadvantages. While a...