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Chapter 6 Outline

Notes

  1. United Nations, World Investment Report, 1997 (New York and Geneva, United Nations, 1998).

  2. World Trade Organization, Annual Report, 1998 (Geneva, WTO, 1998) and United Nations, World Investment Report, 1997 (New York and Geneva, United Nations, 1997).

  3. United Nations, World Investment Report.

  4. Ibid.

  5. Ibid.

  6. M. Kidron and R. Segal, The New State of the World Atlas (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987).

  7. The data can be found on J. P. Morgan's Web site, http://www.jpmorgan.com.

  8. For example, see S. H. Hymer, The International Operations of National Firms: A Study of Direct Foreign Investment (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1976); A. M. Rugman, Inside the Multinationals: The Economics of Internal Markets (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981); D. J. Teece, "Multinational Enterprise, Internal Governance, and Industrial Organization," American Economic Review 75 (May 1983), pp. 233 - 38; and C. W. L. Hill and W. C. Kim, "Searching for a Dynamic Theory of the Multinational Enterprise: A Transaction Cost Model," Strategic Management Journal (special issue) 9 (1988), pp. 93 - 104.

  9. J. P. Womack, D. T. Jones, and D. Roos, The Machine that Changed the World (New York: Rawson Associates, 1990).

  10. The argument is most often associated with F. T. Knickerbocker, Oligopolistic Reaction and Multinational Enterprise (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1973).

  11. The studies are summarized in R. E. Caves, Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

  12. See R. E. Caves, "Japanese Investment in the US: Lessons for the Economic Analysis of Foreign Investment," The World Economy, 16 (1993), pp. 279 - 300; B. Kogut, and S. J. Chang, "Technological Capabilities and Japanese Direct Investment in the United States," Review of Economics and Statistics, 73 (1991), pp. 401 - 43; and J. Anand and B. Kogut, "Technological Capabilities of Countries, Firm Rivalry, and Foreign Direct Investment," Journal of International Business Studies, Third Quarter (1997), 445 - 65.
  1. For the use of Vernon's theory to explain Japanese direct investment in the United States and Europe, see S. Thomsen, "Japanese Direct Investment in the European Community," The World Economy, 16 (1993), pp. 301 - 15.

  2. J. H. Dunning, Explaining International Production, (London: Unwin Hyman, 1988).

  3. P. Krugman, "Increasing Returns and Economic Geography, Journal of Political Economy, 99, no. 3 (1991), pp. 483 - 99.

  4. J. H. Dunning and R. Narula, "Transpacific Foreign Direct Investment and the Investment Development Path," South Carolina Essays in International Business, 10 (May 1995).

  5. W. Shan and J. Song, "Foreign Direct Investment and the Sourcing of Technological Advantage: Evidence from the Biotechnology Industry, Journal of International Business Studies, Second Quarter (1997), pp. 267 - 84.

  6. R. E. Caves, Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis..

  7. J. F. Hennart, "Upstream Vertical Integration in the Aluminum and Tin Industries," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 9 (1988), pp. 281 - 99; and O. E. Williamson, The Economic Institutions of Capitalism (New York: Free Press, 1985).

  8. Hennart, "Upstream Vertical Integration."

  9. Ibid.

  10. See R. E. Caves, Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
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