Bargaining with Multinationals [electronic resource] : The Investment of Siemens and Nissan in North-East England

• Tác giả: H Loewendahl
• ISBN-13: 978-0230595712
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 338.9 Economic development and growth
• Mô tả vật lý: XVIII, 431 p. , online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 305733
• Chủ đề: 1. Development economics; 2. Industrial organization; 3. Industries; 4. International business enterprises; 5. International economic relations; 6. Political science; 7. Development Economics; 9. International Business; 10. International Economics; 11. Organization; 12. Political Science

Tóm tắt

 In Bargaining with Multinationals , Loewendahl scrutinises the relationship between multinational companies, regional development and governments, using an international political economy framework of bargaining between government and multinationals. He critically analyses the role of foreign investment in economic development, and examines how governments can link inward investment to regional economic development. Based on extensive use of data, interviews and case studies of Siemens and Nissan's UK investment, the book shows why MNCs have invested in the UK in the past, how they bargained with the government, and what the impact was on the national and regional economies. In particular, through linking the strategy of multinationals to the location advantages of the UK, it is argued that labour flexibility and incentives were crucial to investment decisions. Loewendahl recommends a framework to integrate endogenous and exogenous approaches to developments
  and proposes a greater role for the region and the EU to control incentives and monitor multinationals.