1st Edition

Multinational Service Firms (RLE International Business)

Edited By Peter Enderwick Copyright 1989
308 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents a world survey of multinational firms in the key parts of the service sector. The service sector has grown greatly in importance in recent years in many countries of the world. Many of the key parts of the service sector that are growing most rapidly are dominated by large multinational firms and this has important implications for the future shape of the world economy... Read more

Preface. List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Part 1 1. Some Economics of Service-Sector Multinational Enterprises Peter Enderwick 2. Service Trade by the Multinational Enterprise James R Markusen. Part 2 3. Multinational Banking Herbert G Grubel. 4. Internationalisation of Professional Producer Services: Accountancy Conglomerates Peter W Daniels, Nigel J Thrift, A Leyshorn. 5. Multinational News Agencies Oliver Boyd-Barret. 6. Multinational Contracting Peter Enderwick. Part 3 7. Soviet and Eastern European Service Multinationals Malcolm R Hill. 8. Third World Multinationals in the Service Industries Donald J Lecraw. Part 4 9. Policy Issues in International Trade and Investment in Services Peter Enderwick. 10. Conclusions Peter Enderwick. Bibliography. Index.

Biography

Peter Enderwick