The New Economic Analysis of Multinationals: An Agenda for Management, Policy and Research (New Horizons in International Business Series)

190 Pages·2003·0.95 MB·English

by  Thomas L. Brewer

The New Economic Analysis of Multinationals
NEWHORIZONS IN INTERNATIONALBUSINESS
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The New Economic Analysis of Multinationals
An Agenda for Management, Policy and Research
Edited by Thomas L. Brewer, Stephen Young and Stephen E. Guisinger
The New Economic
Analysis of
Multinationals
An Agenda for Management, Policy
and Research
Edited by
Thomas L. Brewer
Faculty, Georgetown University McDonough School of
Business, Washington, DC, USA
Stephen Young
Professor and Director, Strathclyde International Business Unit,
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Stephen E. Guisinger
Formerly Professor of International Management,
University of Texas, Dallas, USA
NEWHORIZONS IN INTERNATIONALBUSINESS
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The new economic analysis of multinationals: an agenda for management, policy, and
research/edited by Thomas L. Brewer, Stephen Young, Stephen E. Guisinger.
p. cm.—(New horizons in international business series)
Based on a symposium held in 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. International business enterprises—Management. 2. International business
enterprises. I. Brewer, Thomas L., 1941– II. Young, Stephen, 1944– III.
Guisinger, Stephen E. IV. New horizons in international business.
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Contents
List of figures vi
List of tables vii
List of contributors viii
Dedication ix
Introduction by Stephen E. Guisinger, Thomas L. Brewer and
Stephen Young x
1 Research on international business: problems and prospects 1
Richard E. Caves
2 Models of the multinational enterprise 17
Peter J. Buckley and Mark C. Casson
3 Location and the multinational enterprise: a neglected factor? 45
John H. Dunning
4 Market structure and the multinational enterprise:
a game-theoretic approach 70
Edward M. Graham
5 Multinational enterprise and economic analysis: technology
and productivity 91
Sylvia Ostry
6 Multinationals and the developing countries 106
Louis T. Wells, Jr
7 Multinational enterprises and public policy 122
Alan M. Rugman and Alain Verbeke
8 Overview and public policy reflections 145
Stephen Young and Thomas L. Brewer
Index 171
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Figures
7.1 The consistency between MNE and home and host
government goals 126
7.2 Institutional determinants of MNE-government interactions 128
7.3 MNE’s strategic approach to government policy 130
7.1A Examples of Figure 7.1 132
7.2A Examples of Figure 7.2 135
7.3A Examples of Figure 7.3 137
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Tables
I.1 The evolving research agenda: illustrative topics xi
3.1 Some variables influencing the location of value-added
activities by MNEs in the 1970s and 1990s 54
4.1 Effects on rhoAof changes in C and C (D = D = 100,
A B A B
m = m ) 82
A B
4.2 Effects on rhoAof changes in C and C (D = D = 100,
A B A B
m = 0.25 m ) 83
A B
4.3 Effects on rhoAof changes in C and C (D = D = 100,
A B A B
m = 4 m ) 83
A B
4.4 Effects on rhoAof changes in C and C (D = 100, D = 1000,
A B A B
m = m ) 84
A B
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Contributors
Thomas L. Brewer, former Editor of the Journal of International Business
Studies, and Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business,
Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
Peter J. Buckley, Professor of International Business and Director of the
Centre for International Business, University of Leeds (CIBUL), UK
Mark C. Casson, Professor of Economics, University of Reading, UK
Richard E. Caves, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy,
Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
USA
John H. Dunning, Emeritus Professor of International Business, University of
Reading, UK, and Emeritus Professor of International Business, Rutgers
University, USA
Edward M. Graham, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics,
Washington, DC, USA
Stephen E. Guisinger, formerly Professor of International Management,
University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Sylvia Ostry, Distinguished Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Alan M. Rugman, Leslie Waters Chair of International Business, Kelley
School of Business, Indiana University, USA and Thames Water Senior
Research Fellow, Templeton College, University of Oxford, UK
Alain Verbeke, Professor of International Business and Public Policy, Solvay
Business School, University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium, and Associate
Fellow, Templeton College, University of Oxford, UK
Louis T. Wells, Jr, Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management,
Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Stephen Young, Director, Strathclyde International Business Unit, University
of Strathclyde, UK
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Stephen Guisinger, a good
friend and collaborator, who died in Dallas, Texas on 3 July 2001. He inspired
and co-edited the symposium in the Journal of International Business Studies
on ‘Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis’(volume 29, number 1),
on which this book is based.
Steve enjoyed a distinguished career as a scholar and teacher of interna-
tional business, and he was active in governmental policy-making circles as a
specialist in foreign direct investment issues and business–government rela-
tions. His publications included articles in JIBSin 1989, 1991, 1992, 1995 and
1998. He had recently begun working on an international business textbook
based on his analytic framework emphasizing the interactions of firms with
their political–economic environments. He worked with numerous doctoral
students in his career, and was always a strong supporter of them during and
after their studies. Perhaps less known to members of the AIB were his profes-
sional activities on government policy issues – for instance, as a frequent
consultant to the World Bank on foreign direct investment issues, particularly
in Asia. He was also directly involved in drafting the Asia Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) code on foreign direct investment.
Steve had been robust – and energetically looking forward to the future –
until a few days before his death. Many of us will continue to be inspired by
his example.
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