Transnational corporations and international production : concepts, theories and effects /
Grazia Ietto-Gillies.
- 2nd ed.
- xiv, 260 páginas ; 25 cm.
Previous ed.: 2005.
Incluye bibliografía (p. [231]-249).
Evolution and concepts -- Marxist approaches -- Foreign investment within the neoclassical paradigm -- Hymer´s seminal work -- The product life cycle and international production -- Oligopolistic reactions and the geographical pattern of FDI -- Currency areas and internationalization -- Internalization and the transnational corporation -- Dunning´s eclectic framework -- Stages in the internationalization process : the Scandinavian school -- Evolutionary theories of the TNC -- New trade theories and the activities of TNCs -- Transnational monopoly capitalism -- Nation-states and TNCs´ strategic behaviour -- Resources, networks and the TNC -- Boundaries in the assessment of effects -- Innovation and the TNCs -- Effects on labour -- Effects on trade -- Effects on the balance of payments.