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Britain and the Multinationals

Foreign Affairs, 1986
This study provides an assessment of how multinational companies have changed in recent years and how they have affected the economy and political structure of the United Kingdom. The authors raise questions as to why Britain, despite its economic problems, continues to attract international investors and why British multinationals are more broadly ...
Peter J. Buckley   +2 more
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THE MULTINATIONAL FIRM

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1986
Direct investment is incorporated into a simple general equilibrium model of international trade. The analysis focuses on an attempt to endogenize the internalization decision. It is argued that a reasonable approach assumes that arm's length contracts must be "simple" so that "complex" arrangements require internalization.
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Multinationals and Structural Transformation

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Working Papers, 2022
We study the role of multinationals (MNCs) in facilitating firm-level and aggregate structural transformation. Using a stylized model of multinational production and trade, we show that an inward multinational liberalization in the manufacturing sector raises employment in host country firms, and decreases manufacturing employment, while also raising ...
Vanessa Alviarez   +5 more
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Multinational Federalism in Multinational Federation

2012
In a seminal paper titled ‘Federalism and the Making of Nations’ first published in an edited volume of essays in 1955, Kenneth Wheare reflected upon the limits and possibilities of using the federal idea as a device for ‘bringing nations together, for preserving them and at the same time developing over and above their feelings of distinct nationality,
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On the Multinationals

Development Policy Review, 1978
Book reviewed in this article: The International Operations of National Firms: A Study of Direct Foreign Investment. By S. H. Hymer. Storm Over the Multinationals–The Real Issues. By Raymond Vemon. The Financing of Economic Development. Edited by W. T. Newlyn.
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The multinationals

Industrial Management, 1971
Whether or not this is a critical moment in the relationship between governments and multi‐national companies, as Christopher Tugendhat suggests, he has succeeded in the difficult task of documenting many aspects of multi‐national company operation in an extremely readable way.
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The Theory of the Multinational Enterprise: An Application to Multinational Office Location

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1983
The forces that affect growth, location, and distribution in the service sector will have elements in common with those at work in manufacturing, but equally will exhibit certain unique features. This paper examines such forces in the specific context of location choices made by offices of multinational enterprises (MNEs).
J H Dunning, G Norman
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