Product Description: In this discerning book, David Collins provides an eloquent analysis of performance requirements and investment incentives as vital tools of economic policy. Adopting a consciously broad definition of both instruments, this work provokes a constructively critical assessment of their existing treatment under international economic law...read more

Product Description: In this cutting-edge analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI), Moran--one of the acknowledged experts in this area--questions traditional econometric measures of foreign direct investment flows, identifies flaws in past research, elaborates on how the latest research has moved into new territory, and provides a first look at what new research has uncovered...read more

Product Description: This is a global study of government subsidies to attract investment. The book shows how corporations use site selection as rent extraction, with developing countries investing more than developed ones. It demonstrates that incentive use is rarely a good policy, especially for countries without adequate education and infrastructure...read more

Product Description: Investment promotion covers all activities and measures aimed at creating favourable determinants for foreign investment in the host country. This publication focuses on the international agreements on the promotion and protection of foreign investment...read more

Product Description: In the past three years, many countries have adopted or expanded regimes to review inward foreign direct investment (FDI) for either "national" or "economic" security purposes. These examples of potential restrictions, however, have occurred amid ongoing changes in the patterns of FDI flows...read more

Product Description: This book describes the recent activities of the Foreign Investment Advisory Service (a joint facility of the IFC and the World Bank) to help governments in developing and transition economies to identify and remove administrative barriers to investment...read more

Product Description: In this authoritative selection of previously published articles by leading scholars in the field, Stephen Young provides balanced coverage of this wide-ranging and controversial topic. The articles chosen reflect the major changes which are taking place in government policies and attitudes towards foreign direct investment...read more

Focusing on four key areas in international strategic management, this volume closely examines the areas of HQ-subsidiary relationships, international marketing strategy, international strategic alliances and international manufacturing and technology strategy. Within this essential framework new insights are presented by key academics in the field in areas such as investment decision-making, uncertainty avoidance and buyer-supplier partnerships. Representing a broad panorama of contemporary thought, this volume is a must for anyone interested in current developments in international strategic management.

Product Description: Multinational Enterprise and Public Policy is a timely and instructive analysis of the relations between multinational corporations and the governments of the industrialized states. Traditional studies have emphasized the activities of multinational corporations in the developing economies, while ignoring their less dramatic, but no less significant, role in the political and economic life of the industrialized nations...read more