The book deals with cases about the impact of, and interaction between, the different Latin American cultural, economic, legal, and political settings on activities, strategies, structures and decision-making processes of MNCs. The cases focus on business processes, settings and organizational...

Cover -- Title -- Copyrights -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword: Upgrading Chinese Business Enterprise Globalization -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- 1 Scholarly Context of This Book -- The secondary literature on Chinese outbound investment and this book --...

Intro -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Multinational corporations and local firms in emerging economies: An introduction / Eric Rugraff and Michael W. Hansen -- Part II. Studies of spillovers and linkages between multinational corporations and local firms -- 2. The...

Russian multinationals are playing an increasingly important role in the world economy, particularly in some key sectors such as oil, gas and metallurgy. At the same time, Russian multinationals differ in many respects from multinationals from other countries in that they often receive special...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. The First World War, 1914-1918 -- 2. America's New Role, 1919-1923 -- 3. Survival, Expansion, and New Arrivals, 1919-1923 -- 4. Prosperity, 1924-1929 -- 5. The Foreign Multinationals, 1924-1929...

Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Contribution of R&D to U.S. Economic Development -- 3 Foreign Participation in Privately Funded U.S. R&D -- 4 Foreign Participation in Publicly Funded U.S. R&D -- 5 Findings and Recommendations -- References --...

In the early 1990s, Singapore, the Malaysian state of Johor, and the Riau Islands in Indonesia sought to leverage their proximity, differing factor endowments, and good logistics connections to market themselves as an integrated unit. Beyond national-level support in all three countries, the...

Discussing the standards of legal treatment for international investment, means subjecting the law branch in its entirety to research. Representing the most comprehensive part, of particular importance for international investment law, treatment standards continue to generate a series of...

Intro -- Map and Time Zones -- At a Glance (2002) -- Basic Information -- Geography -- Politics -- Taiwan and Mainland China -- Political Structure -- Political Parties -- Economy -- Background -- Current Trends -- Regional Differences -- Investment and Trade -- The Underground Economy --...

Intro -- Map and Time Zones -- At a Glance (2002) -- Basic Information -- Geography -- Politics -- Economy -- Background -- Current Trends -- Regional Differences -- Investment and Trade -- E-commerce -- Zaibatsu and keiretsu -- Preparing to Leave -- Scheduling -- Visas and Documentation --...