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Globalizing Customer Solutions: The Enlightened Confluence of Technology, Innovation, Trade, and Investment » (New Edition)

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Authors: Edmund B. Fitzgerald
ISBN-13: 9780275970734, ISBN-10: 0275970736
Format: Paperback
Publisher: ABC-Clio, LLC
Date Published: August 2000
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: Edmund B. Fitzgerald

EDMUND B. FITZGERALD is Managing Director of Woodmont Associates in Nashville, TN, and an Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University.

Book Synopsis

Examines current global economic metrics, showing the influence of the globalization paradigm, and explores how that paradigm has been driven by the enlightened confluence of technology, innovation, trade, and FDI.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Ch. 1Introduction and the Global Economic Metrics1
Ch. 2Globalization: The New Paradigm11
Ch. 3Technology and Innovation23
Ch. 4International Trade37
Ch. 5Trade Distortions51
Ch. 6Multilateral versus Alternative Trade Practices69
Ch. 7The World Trade Organization79
Ch. 8Foreign Direct Investment93
Ch. 9FDI: Who Needs It? - Almost Everyone105
Ch. 10FDI and Developing Nations: Risks and Jurisdictions117
Ch. 11FDI and Developing Nations: Technology and Finance127
Ch. 12FDI and Developing Nations: Linkages and Patterns of Operation139
Ch. 13Reflections153
Index157

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