[fre] À l'issue des élections législatives de 1993, les gouvernements français suc­cessifs ont entrepris un ambitieux programme de privatisations. En trois ans, l'État a cédé, au moins partiellement, de ses participations dans neuf grandes sociétés publiques, et d'autres firmes parmi...

<heading format="display" id="h1" implicit="yes" level="1">Abstract</heading> (1249) Renato Aguilar and Andrea Goldstein Copyright 2009 The Authors. Journal compilation 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

<heading format="display" id="h1" implicit="yes" level="1">Abstract</heading> (1248) Andrea Goldstein, Nicolas Pinaud, Helmut Reisen and Dorothy McCormick Copyright 2009 The Authors. Journal compilation 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

While Italy's catch-up in the course of the 20th century has been nothing short of extraordinary, it has failed to produce a large number of global business players. Nonetheless, half a century ago an Italian company concluded what was at the time the largest-ever foreign takeover of a US...

Embraer, a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer, has transformed itself after privatisation in 1992 to become a world market leader in a high-tech industry traditionally dominated by OECD-based companies. In recent years Embraer has also become an aggressive foreign investor and took over Portugal's...

This timely and much-needed Handbook reconsiders an old topic from a fresh perspective, raising a number of new, interesting and worthwhile issues in the wake of ten years of globalization. This comprehensive analysis illustrates that old-style industrial policies whereby the government directly...

The global economy is changing rapidly and multinational corporations (MNCs) are at the forefront of this transformation. This book provides novel and profound analyses of how MNCs and emerging economies are related, and how this relationship affects the dynamics of the global economy. In...

Regulating Development examines the impact that regulation – good or bad – can have on the development of poorer societies. It opens with a succinct review of critical issues, including the implications of the spread of intellectual property rights legislation and the role of the...

This insightful book shows that foreign direct investment (FDI) from emerging markets has grown from negligible amounts in the early 1980s to $210 billion in 2007, with the stock of investment now being well over $1 trillion. This reflects the rise of firms from these economies to become...