Routledge Studies in Global Competition
About the Book Series
This series presents high quality research monographs and collections written from a variety of perspectives and at different levels of analysis. The study of global competition is increasingly at the centre of an academic crossroads at which different research programmes and levels of investigation are now meeting, bringing together researchers working in areas such as international business, technological change, geographical and locational analysis and European integration.
Multinational Firms and Impacts on Employment, Trade and Technology: New Perspectives for a New Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert E. Lipsey, Jean-Louis Mucchielli
December 29, 2001
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 ...
The Source of Capital Goods Innovation: The Role of User Firms in Japan and Korea
1st Edition
By Kong Rae-Lee
March 01, 1998
The results of the empirical investigation of Japan and Korea show that the user firms in both countries, represented by car makers, have involved themselves in the technical and entrepreneurial entry into machine tools along with making active investments. As a consequence, they made a ...