List Books » Globalizing Customer Solutions: The Enlightened Confluence of Technology, Innovation, Trade, and Investment
Authors: Edmund B. Fitzgerald
ISBN-13: 9780275970734, ISBN-10: 0275970736
Format: Paperback
Publisher: ABC-Clio, LLC
Date Published: August 2000
Edition: New Edition
EDMUND B. FITZGERALD is Managing Director of Woodmont Associates in Nashville, TN, and an Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University.
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.
Preface | ||
Abbreviations | ||
Ch. 1 | Introduction and the Global Economic Metrics | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Globalization: The New Paradigm | 11 |
Ch. 3 | Technology and Innovation | 23 |
Ch. 4 | International Trade | 37 |
Ch. 5 | Trade Distortions | 51 |
Ch. 6 | Multilateral versus Alternative Trade Practices | 69 |
Ch. 7 | The World Trade Organization | 79 |
Ch. 8 | Foreign Direct Investment | 93 |
Ch. 9 | FDI: Who Needs It? - Almost Everyone | 105 |
Ch. 10 | FDI and Developing Nations: Risks and Jurisdictions | 117 |
Ch. 11 | FDI and Developing Nations: Technology and Finance | 127 |
Ch. 12 | FDI and Developing Nations: Linkages and Patterns of Operation | 139 |
Ch. 13 | Reflections | 153 |
Index | 157 |