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Informationen zum Autor Lipsey, Robert E. ; Mucchielli, Jean-Louis Klappentext This collection, with contributors from many distinguished writers in the field, presents work which has been able to exploit relevant data for countries such as the United States, France, Italy, Belgium and Japan. The essays show, for the first time with a large sample, the high degree of complementarity between foreign direct investment and home exports, especially for intrafirm trade, and the exact evolution in the nature of employment between mother companies and affiliates. Zusammenfassung For decades governments, politicians, and trade unions have feared that firms investing abroad involved a loss of employment and a decline in wages for the home country, the implied assumption being that global production and consumption are somehow fixed. Similarly, research on multinational firms has tended to present them as having a number of alternatives - export, licensing or foreign direct investment - for the exploitation of fixed foreign markets. In reality, the complex relationships between parent companies and their foreign affiliates must be examined very carefully and with the most disaggregated statistics available if we are to get an accurate understanding of firms impacts. A major obstacle to this research has been the confidential nature of the necessary data. This collection, with contributions from many distinguished writers in the field, presents work which has been able to exploit relevant data for countries such as the United States, France, Italy, Belgium and Japan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Multinational Firms, International Production and Home Employment1. Foreign Production by US Firms and Parent Firm EmploymentPart II: Multinational Firms and International Trade: FDI and Export, FDI and Intra-Firm Trade2. Relationships between Trade and FDI Flows within Two Panels of US and French Industries3. Intra-Firm Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: an Empirical Analysis of French Firms4. Foreign Investment Transactions and International Trade Linkages5. Intra-Firm Trade and Market StructurePart III: Multinational Firms, Linkages and Spillover Effects6. Linkages, Multinationals and Industrial Development7. Local Procurement by Japanese Manufacturing AffiliatesPart IV: Multinational Firms, Structure and Diffusion of Technology and Innovation: How it is Structured in the Context of Globalization8. The Effectiveness of Intellectual Property Rights: an Exploration of French Survey Data9. The Innovative Activities of Multinational Firms in Italy10. Innovative Strategies and Know-How Flows in International Companies: Some Evidence from Belgian Manufacturing11. Foreign Direct Investment as Technology Sourcing ...
Summary
This collection of essays shows the high degree of complementarity between foreign direct investment and home export, challenging the long held fear that firms investing abroad leads to a loss of employment and decline in the home country.
