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Informationen zum Autor Tagi Sagafi-nejad is the Radcliffe Killam Distinguished Professor of International Business and Director of the Ph.D. International Business Administration at Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas. He is author of Controlling International Technology Transfer: Issues, Perspectives, and Implications and Technology Exports from Developing Countries: The Case of Egypt. John H. Dunning is Emeritus Professor of International Business at the University of Reading, UK, and State of New Jersey Emeritus Professor of International Business at Rutgers University. He has authored, co-authored, or edited 42 books on the economics of international direct investment and the multinational enterprise, and on industrial and regional economics. Klappentext Tagi Sagafi-nejad is the Radcliffe Killam Distinguished Professor of International Business and Director of the Ph.D. International Business Administration at Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas. He is author of Controlling International Technology Transfer: Issues, Perspectives, and Implications and Technology Exports from Developing Countries: The Case of Egypt.John H. Dunning is Emeritus Professor of International Business at the University of Reading, UK, and State of New Jersey Emeritus Professor of International Business at Rutgers University. He has authored, co-authored, or edited 42 books on the economics of international direct investment and the multinational enterprise, and on industrial and regional economics. Zusammenfassung Examines the history of UN engagement with TNCs! including the creation of the UN Commission and Centre on Transnational Corporations in 1974! and the failed efforts of these bodies to craft a code of conduct to temper the revealed abuses of TNCs. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Boxes, Figures, and Tables Series Editors' Foreword Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss Preface & Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Ideas and Institutions Relevant to Foreign Investment and TNCs Prior to World War II 2. The Early Post-World War II Era: From the Golden Years of FDI to the Incipient Rise of Economic Nationalism 3. The 1970s: Gathering Storm 4. The Group of Eminent Persons: The Eye of the Hurricane 5. The Commission and the Centre, New York Years, 1974-1992 6. New York to Geneva: The UNCTAD Years 7. World Investment Report Series: 1991-2005 8. Other Members of the UN Galaxy: The Constellation 9. The Legacy and Future Notes Appendix 1: Organizational Diagram of UNCTC at its Inception, 1974 Appendix 2: From New York (UNCTC) to Geneva (DITE): Leadership Index About the Authors About the United Nations Intellectual History Project ...
