Multinational enterprises, regional economic integration, and export-platform production in the host countries: An empirical analysis for the US and Japanese corporations

Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 450-483

  Kumar, Nagesh ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 20944447070     PISSN: 00432636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02707926     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Andersson, T., and T. Frederiksson (1996). International Organization of Production and Variation in Exports from Affiliates. Journal of International Business Studies 27 (2): 249-263.
2. Buckley, P. J., and J.-L. Mucchielli (eds.) (1997). Multinational Firms and International Relocation, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
3. Cho, K. R. (1990). The bole of Product-Specific Factors in Intra-Firm Trade of U.S. Manufacturing Corporations. Journal of International Business Studies 21 (2): 319-330.
4. Clark, D. P., W. C. Sawyer, and R. L. Sprinkle (1989). Determinants of Industry Participation under Offshore Assembly Provisions in the United States Tariff Code. Journal of World Trade 23 (5): 123-130.
5. Dunning, J. H. (1993). Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy. Wokingham: Addison-Wesley.
6. _ (1998). The Changing Geography of Foreign Direct Investment. In N. Kumar et al. (eds.), Globalization, Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfer: Impact on and Prospects for Developing Countries. London: Routledge, forthcoming.
7. Fröbel, F., J. Heinrichs, and O. Kreye (1980). The New International Division of Labour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
8. Greene, W. H. (1993). Econometric Analysis. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
9. International Labour Office/United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (1988). Economic and Social Effects of Multinational Enterprises in Export Processing Zones. Geneva: ILO.
10. Japan Exterior Trade Organisation (1994). JETRO White Paper on Foreign Direct Investment 1994. Tokyo: JETRO.
11. Julius, D. (1990). Global Companies and Public Policy: The Growing Challenge of Foreign Direct Investment. London: RIIA and Pinter Publishers.
12. Kaplinski, R. (1991). TNCs in the Third World: Stability or Discontinuity? Millennium Journal of International Studies 20 (2): 257-267.
13. Kojima, K. (1978). Direct Foreign Investment. London: Croom Helm.
14. Kravis, I. B., and R. E. Lipsey (1982). The Location of Overseas Production and Production for Export by U.S. Multinational Firms. Journal of International Economics 12: 201-223.
15. Kumar, N. (1994a). Determinants of Export Orientation of Foreign Production by U.S. Multinationals: An Inter Country Analysis. Journal of International Business Studies 25 (1): 141-156.
16. _ (1994b). Regional Trading Blocs, Industrial Reorganization and Foreign Direct Investments: The Case of the Single European Market. World Competition 18 (2): 35-55.
17. _ (1999). Globalization and Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: A Quantitative Explanation of the Role of Multinational Enterprises in Industrialization, Export-Expansion and Innovation in Host Countries. London: Routledge, forthcoming.
18. Kumar, N. and N. S. Siddharthan, (1997). Technology, Market Structure and Internationalization: Issues and Policies for Developing Countries. London: Routledge.
19. Lee, J. (1986). Determinants of Offshore Production in Developing Countries. Journal of Development Economics (20): 1-13.
20. Ministry of International Trade and Industry (1994). Fifth Basic Survey on Overseas Business Activities (in Japanese). Tokyo: MITI.
21. Nayyar, D. (1978). Transnational Corporations and Manufactured Exports from Poor Countries. Economic Journal 88: 59-84.
22. Ozawa, T. (1992). Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development. Transnational Corporations 1 (1): 27-54.
23. Parisotto, A. (1993). Direct Employment in Multinational Enterprises in Industrialized and Developing Countries in the 1980s: Main Characteristics and Recent Trends. In P. Bailey et al. (eds.), Multinationals and Employment: The Global Economy of the 1990s. Geneva: International Labour Office.
24. Pritchett, L. (1996). Measuring Outward Orientation in LDCs: Can It Be Done? Journal of Development Economics 49 (2): 307-335.
25. Siddharthan, N. S., and N. Kumar (1990). Determinants of Inter-Industry Variations in the Proportion of Intra-Firm Trade: The Behaviour of U.S. Multinationals. Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 126 (3): 581-591.
26. Vernon, R. (1966). International Investment and International Trade in Product Cycle: The Case of US Firms. Quarterly Journal of Economics (80): 190-207.
27. Woodward, D. P., and R. J. Rolfe (1993). The Location of Export-Oriented Foreign Direct Investment in the Caribbean Basin. Journal of International Business Studies 24 (1): 121-144.