"Third World" multinationals revisited

Journal of Transnational Management

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 63-88

  Costin, Harry ^a   Herken, Juan Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b Economic Development Consultant   (Spain)

Author keywords

Competitive advantages; Core values; Corporations; Developingcountries; Foreign direct Investment; Information technology; Multinationals; Scale economies; Transnationals; Value added chain; World ranking of corporations

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE; DEVELOPING WORLD; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; GLOBALIZATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; USSR;

EID: 33845643195     PISSN: 15475778     EISSN: 15475786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J482v11n04_05     Document Type: Article

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