John M. Stopford

Directory of Multinationals

Directory of Multinationals: K-Z

This directory includes information on more than 400 companies, accounting for the bulk of the world's direct foreign investment. Only companies with over $500 million of foreign sales are mentioned. This 4th edition highlights the trend towards increasing internationalization of companies' activities. The growing importance of major global trading blocs, including the single market within the European Community and the co-operative arrangements among SouthEast Asian and North American countries, was one of the factors fuelling the wave of merger and acquisition activity in the later 1980s and has led to expansion overseas by many of the world's largest companies.

Julian Birkinshaw

Constantinos C. Markides

George Yip

Sumantra Ghoshal

Recent Events -from September 11, to the anti-globalization protests to the collapse of the high-tech boom have accentuated the sense that the global economy is moving into uncharted waters Bringing together the leading authorities on globalization and international business The Future of the Multinational Company looks ahead to the new challenges facing multinational firms and predicts what the multinational company will look like in ten years time. Brings together the leading authorities in the field of global / international busi-ness. Accademically rigourous but accessible · Addresses a topic of concern to practitioners and academics alike

The Future of the Multinational Company

Susan Strange

John S. Henley

Stopford John M

John S.. Henley

In this theoretically original work, two distinguished authors explore the mutual interdependence of states and firms throughout the world. They show how global structural changes - in finance, technology, knowledge and politics - often impel governments to seek the help and cooperation of managers of multinational enterprises. Yet, as Professors Stopford and Strange demonstrate, this is constrained by each country's economic resources, its social structures and its political history. Based on grass-roots research into the experience of over 50 multinationals and more than 100 investment projects in three developing countries- Brazil, Malaysia and Kenya - the authors develop a matrix of agendas. They present the impact on projects of the multiple factors affecting the bargaining relationships between the government and the foreign firm at different times and in a variety of economic sectors. In conclusion they offer some guidelines for actions to both governments and firms and some points to future interdisciplinary research.

Competition for World Market Shares

Rival States, Rival Firms

Scholar of International Relations Susan Strange

John M. Stopford

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