Third world multinationals: A look back

Emerging Multinationals in Emerging Markets

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 23-41

  Wells, Louis T ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 84927078584     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511576485.002     Document Type: Chapter

References (14)

1. Louis T. Wells Jr., Third World Multinationals: The Rise of Foreign Investment from Developing Countries (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1983).
2. Sanjaya Lall, The New Multinationals: The Spread of Third World Enterprises (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 1983).
3. Krishna Kumar and Malcolm McLeod (eds.), Multinationals from Developing Countries (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1981).
4. Vinod Busjeet, “Foreign Investors from Less Developed Countries,” unpublished doctoral dissertation, Harvard Business School, 1980.
5. Although his thesis was not completed, K. Balakrishnan published some of his findings as “Indian Joint Ventures Abroad: Geographic and Industry Patterns,” Economic and Political Weekly, Review of Management, May 1976.
6. Carlos A. Cordeiro, “The Internationalization of Indian Firms: A Case for Direct Foreign Investment from a Less Developed Country,” unpublished undergraduate honors thesis, Department of Economics, Harvard College, 1978.
7. Findings from Dennis J. Encarnation’s dissertation were published in his “The Political Economy of Indian Joint Industrial Ventures Abroad: A Study of Domestic Policies and Transnational Linkages,” International Organization, Winter 1982, pp. 31–39.
8. See, for example, Donald Lecraw, “Direct Investments by Firms from Less Developed Countries,” Oxford Economic Papers, November 1977, pp. 442-457.
9. David A. Heenan and Warren J. Keegan, “The Rise of Third World Multinationals,” Harvard Business Review, January-February 1979, pp. 101-109.
10. Lall, The New Multinationals, p. 254.
11. For implications of the acquisition for Goro Nickel, in New Caledonia, see Raphael Minder, “Taking the Caledonian Road to Nickel Riches,” Financial Times, June 7, 2007, p. 17.
12. Gerard Lyons, “How State Capitalism Could Change the World,” Financial Times, June 8, 2007.
13. For a history of “free-standing” investors, see Mira Wilkins and Harm Schroter (eds.), The Free-Standing Company in the World Economy 1830-1996 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
14. Alec Russell, “World Bank to Finance African Phone Networks,” Financial Times, June 13, 2007.