This book analyses how foreign direct investors choose their locations, whilst exploring the forces which shape international economic geography. Although these two issues are, to some extent, inter-related, researchers have only recently acknowledged the similarity of economic geography and...

This original and important book explores how the interaction between China and multinational enterprises has the potential to affect the future of the Chinese economy, the global economy, and international business.

This original and important book explores how the interaction between China and multinational enterprises has the potential to affect the future of the Chinese economy, the global economy, and international business.

This original and important book explores how the interaction between China and multinational enterprises has the potential to affect the future of the Chinese economy, the global economy, and international business.

This original and important book explores how the interaction between China and multinational enterprises has the potential to affect the future of the Chinese economy, the global economy, and international business.

The location determinants of US FDI in the Pacific region of the OECD, i.e. Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Korea, are analysed for 1982-1997. The data set allowed two time periods i.e. the 1980s and the 1990s, and two different subgroups, i.e. Australia and New Zealand, and Japan and Korea...

The paper argues that policies towards inward investment should extend, much more decisively and comprehensively, beyond initial attraction in order to seek to secure sustained benefits from these operations. The view of the modern multinational enterprise as a dynamic differentiated network,...

Identifies the similarities and differences between the concepts of regionalism, multilateralism, globalization and localization; and their effects on multinational enterprises (MNEs). Suggests that the responses of MNEs to the emergence of trade blocs are more complex than generally supposed...