Multinationals on the Periphery

Multinational enterprises do not regard all locations as being equivalent. Smaller economies and less-developed countries are not as attractive because of a limited market size or lack of proximity to other locations. This book focuses on how multinational activity to and from peripheral economies differs from their activity in core economies.

States and Firms on the Periphery: The Challenges of a Globalising World; G.Benito & R.Narula Can Domestically Owned Manufacturing Firms of Small Developing Economies Compete in a Liberalised Trading Environment; L.A.Barclay Internationalisation of Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises: Are Foreign Investors Dictating the Rules of the Game; E.Reiljan The Internationalisation of Patterns of Norwegian Firms: Does Industry Matter?; B.Grøgaard & G.Benito The Pace of Internationalisation for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises; S.M.Karlsen Public Policy, FDI Attraction, and Multinational Subsidiary Evolution: The Contrasting Cases of Ireland and Portugal; A.T.Tavares MNCs in the Periphery: DaimlerChrysler South Africa (DCSA), Human Capital Upgrading, and Regional Economic Development; J.Lorentzen Outside the Triad: An Examination of International R&D Investments within Peripheral Economies; B.Ambos & T.C.Ambos Moving out of the Country: An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Country, Cluster and Firm Related Factors; C.A.Solberg Centre and Periphery in the WTO: The Cast of TRIPS; H.Hoggen

BJORN AMBOS Professor of International Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration TINA C. AMBOS Assistant Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration LOU ANNE BARCLAY Senior Lecturer in International Business, Department of Management Studies, University of the West Indies, Jamaica BIRGITTE GRØGAARD Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada HELENE HOGGEN BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway SIV MARINA KARLSEN Lecturer, Oslo University College, Norway JOCHEN LORENTZEN Chief Research Specialist in the Education, Science and Skills Development Research Programme, Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa ELE REILJAN Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu, Estonia CARL ARTHUR SOLBERG Associate Professor, BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway ANA TERESA TAVARES Pro-Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, Portugal