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Authors: Srinivas Prasad (Editor), Pervez N. Ghauri (Editor), Pervez N. Ghauri
ISBN-13: 9781567204216, ISBN-10: 156720421X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Srinivas Prasad

S. BENJAMIN PRASAD is Director of York Research in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and Professor Emeritus of Management at Ohio University and Central Michigan University. He has taught or conducted scholarly research in Brazil, Canada, Kuwait, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, and the Netherlands during a thirty-year period. The author of dozens of journal articles, he has written five books and edited ten.

PERVEZ N. GHAURI is Professor of International Business at the University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, in Manchester, England.

Book Synopsis

Illuminates the challenges faced by global firms doing business in those developing countries that have attained the status of emerging markets, and highlights issues unique to the post-9/11 business environment.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Preface
Ch. 1On multinationals after 19893
Ch. 2The bald eagle cannot find its way in the rain forest13
Ch. 3Challenges for the European auto multinationals37
Ch. 4Multinationals and technology development in Latin America and East Asia61
Ch. 5Supranational rules on strategy context: Embraer and Brazil's aerospace program83
Ch. 6Initial trust of joint venture partners in emerging nations105
Ch. 7Family conglomerates : key features relevant to multinationals121
Ch. 8International joint venture control : an integrated framework147
Ch. 9An analysis of joint venture activities in Southeast Asia171
Ch. 10National culture in China and multinationals' performance195
Ch. 11Entering emerging markets : ignorance and discovery207
Ch. 12Strategies of multinationals in contemporary China227
Ch. 13Rethinking MNE-rmerging market relationships : some insights from East Asia251
Ch. 14Institutions and market reforms : a logical guide for MNE investments267
Ch. 15On economic liberalization in India285
Ch. 16A look ahead : multinational enterprise and emerging markets307
Selected bibliography311
Index313
About the editors and contributors317

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