Foreign direct investment : research issues / / edited by Bijit Bora

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451558603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
• ISBN: 0-429-23268-3; 1-134-55724-8; 1-282-77865-X; 9786612778650; 0-203-46969-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in international business and the world economy ; ; 22
• Altri autori (Persone): BoraBijit
• Disciplina: 332.67/3
• Soggetti: Investments, Foreign; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Theory and measurement of FDI; International business research: steady-states, dynamics and globalisation; FDI: strategic issues; The international distribution of multinational production; A method for improved international and intertemporal comparisons of US MNCs' overseas gross product in manufacturing; Research issues in Japanese FDI; Structural issues related to the impact on FDI; FDI and trade; Cross-border investment and effects on competition in the telecommunications sector Outsourcing jobs and enterprise-level bargaining: 'Cheshire cat' unions revisited?; FDI and the structure of home country production; Host-country impact of FDI in East Asia; IPRs and FDI; FDI and the environment: the link between FDI and the environment; Analytical and policy issues; Modelling FDI in a computable general equilibrium framework; Measuring and modelling barriers to FDI; The impact of tax policy and incentives on FDI; Options for collecting globalisation statistics: Australia; Multilateral investment rulesFDI and development: research issues in ; the emerging context; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Foreign Direct Investment examines the different approaches to explaining the growth and distribution of FDI in the world. Pulling together contributions from an array of international experts, this study combines theoretical with empirical work on issues such as computable general equilibrium modelling, trade, intellectual property, environment, labour, services and development. By analyzing different aspects of the growth and impact of FDI this book is able to balance areas where research is well advanced with areas, such as the role of FDI in development, where many questions