1st Edition

Direct Foreign Investment A Japanese Model of Multi-National Business Operations

By Kyoshi Kojima Copyright 2011
256 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Direct foreign investment and the activities of multinational corporations are new dynamic elements in the international economy. This book identifies, theoretically and practically, a Japanese model of multinational business operations which has characteristics differing from the American or "anti-trade oriented" type, and casts light on important policy implications concerning direct foreign... Read more

1. Issues of Direct Foreign Investment  2. International Division of Labour: Basic Theories for Trade and Investment  3. The Theories of Foreign Investment: An Overview  4. Direct Foreign Investment: Japanese Model versus American Model  5. A Macro-economic Theory of Direct Foreign Investment  6. International Trade and Foreign Investment: Substitutes or Complements?  7. Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries: Japanese Type versus American Type  8. Direct Foreign Investment to Developing Countries: The Issue of Over-Presence  9. Direct Foreign Investment between Advanced Industrialised Countries  10. Japan’s Resource Security and Foreign Investment in the Pacific  11. Giant Multinational Corporations: Merits and Defects

Biography

Kyoshi Kojima