Transnational Corporations and International Production: Concepts, Theories and Effects

Contents
List of boxes and tables
List of summary boxes at the end of chapters
List of abbreviations
Preface and acknowledgements to the third edition
Preface and acknowledgements to the second edition
Preface and acknowledgements to the first edition
Introduction
PART I: EVOLUTION AND CONCEPTS
	1 The TNC: evolution and growth
	2 Modalities of TNCs’ operations
	Appendix to Part I: definitions and data matters
PART II: PRE-WWII APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT
	Introduction to Part II
	3 Marxist approaches
	4 Foreign investment within the neoclassical paradigm
PART III: MODERN THEORIES
	Introduction to Part III
	5 Hymer’s seminal work
	6 The product life cycle and international production
	7 Oligopolistic reactions and the geographical pattern of FDI
	8 Currency areas and internationalization
	9 Internalization and the transnational corporation
	10 Dunning’s eclectic framework
	11 Stages in the internationalization process: the Uppsala model
	12 Evolutionary theories of the TNC
	13 New trade theories and the activities of TNCs
	14 Transnational monopoly capitalism
	15 Nation-states and TNCs’ strategic behaviour
	16 The transnational corporation as a network
	17 Bundle of resources, dynamic capabilities and the TNC
	18 Theories of the TNC and the twenty-first century
PART IV: EFFECTS
	Introduction to Part IV
	19 Boundaries in the assessment of effects
	20 Innovation and the TNCs
	21 Effects on labour
	22 Effects on trade
	23 Wider effects: from the balance of payments to fiscal revenues
References
Index
Acclaim for the Second Edition
Acclaim for the First Edition