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Authors: N. SINGH, Sugata Marjit
ISBN-13: 9780195648027, ISBN-10: 0195648021
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
The reader focuses on joint ventures and foreign investment in the context of development, covering the relevant theoretical and empirical literature.
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Introduction | 1 | |
I | Joint Ventures | |
1 | Host-Country Policy, Transfer Pricing and Ownership Distribution in International Joint Ventures: A Theoretical Analysis | 39 |
2 | Rationalizing Public-Private Joint Ventures in an Open Economy: A Strategic Approach | 60 |
3 | The Economics of Joint Ventures in Less Developed Countries | 68 |
4 | Measuring Performance of International Joint Ventures | 88 |
II | Multinationals and Foreign Investment | |
5 | International Trade, Foreign Investment, and the Formation of the Entrepreneurial Class | 109 |
6 | Multinationals, Linkages, and Economic Development | 125 |
7 | The Multinational Firm | 163 |
8 | Exploring New Markets: Direct Investment, Contractual Relations, and the Multinational Enterprise | 193 |
III | Technology Transfer | |
9 | Relative Backwardness, Direct Foreign Investment, and the Transfer of Technology: A Simple Dynamic Model | 219 |
10 | Technology Transfer by Multinational Firms: The Resource Cost of Transferring Technological Know-How | 235 |
11 | Foreign Technology, Spillovers, and R & D Policy | 262 |
12 | Closing the Technology Gap Under Protection | 294 |
13 | Appropriate Technology and Growth | 321 |
14 | Learning by Doing, the Technology Gap, and Growth | 351 |
15 | International Technology Transfer Under Potential Threat of Entry: A Cournot-Nash Framework | 382 |
Index | 399 |