LEADER 03947nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910778443503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-04466-5 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674044661 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805433 035 $a(OCoLC)449791752 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10326104 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000177896 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11156970 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177896 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10218057 035 $a(PQKB)10931665 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300560 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10326104 035 $a(OCoLC)923111832 035 $a(DE-B1597)574555 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674044661 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300560 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805433 100 $a19980319d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn the hurricane's eye$b[electronic resource] $ethe troubled prospects of multinational enterprises /$fRaymond Vernon 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d1998 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-44582-1 311 $a0-674-00424-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-257) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPreface -- $t1 SETTING THE CONTEXT -- $t2 TENSIONS IN THE BACKGROUND -- $t3 INSIDE THE EMERGING ECONOMIES -- $t4 INSIDE THE INDUSTRIALIZED ECONOMIES -- $t5 THE STRUGGLE OVER OPEN MARKETS -- $t6 RIGHTING THE BALANCE -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aThe world's multinational enterprises face a spell of rough weather, political economist Ray Vernon argues, not only from the host countries in which they have established their subsidiaries, but also from their home countries. Such enterprises--a few thousand in number, including Microsoft, Toyota, IBM, Siemens, Samsung, and others--now generate about half of the world's industrial output and half of the world's foreign trade; so any change in the relatively benign climate in which they have operated over the past decade will create serious tensions in international economic relations. The warnings of such a change are already here. In the United States, interests such as labor are increasingly hostile to what they see as the costs and uncertainties of an open economy. In Europe, those who want to preserve the social safety net and those who feel that the net must be dismantled are increasingly at odds. In Japan, the talk of "hollowing out" takes on a new urgency as the country's "lifetime employment" practices are threatened and as public and private institutions are subjected to unaccustomed stress. The tendency of multinationals in different countries to find common cause in open markets, strong patents and trademarks, and international technical standards has been viewed as a loss of national sovereignty and a weakening of the nation-state system, producing hostile reactions in home countries. The challenge for policy makers, Vernon argues, is to bridge the quite different regimes of the multinational enterprise and the nation-state. Both have a major role to play, and yet must make basic changes in their practices and policies to accommodate each other. 606 $aInternational business enterprises 606 $aHost countries (Business)$xEconomic policy 606 $aCompetition, International 606 $aPressure groups 615 0$aInternational business enterprises. 615 0$aHost countries (Business)$xEconomic policy. 615 0$aCompetition, International. 615 0$aPressure groups. 676 $a338.8/8 700 $aVernon$b Raymond$f1913-1999.$032851 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778443503321 996 $aIn the hurricane's eye$93745168 997 $aUNINA