Transnational Corporations and Economic Development From Internationalisation to Globalisation

This volume investigates the specific role of transnational corporations in the process of globalization and economic development. While it draws on a long history of academic research, it also shows new ways forward. It makes headway both in conceptual as well as empirical terms. Topics covered include locational clustering, research and development partnering, productivity spillovers, privatization, disinvestment, terrorism, and the role of and impact on transnational corporations. A future research agenda is also put forward.

Transnational Corporations and Economic Development: An Introduction; L.Cuyvers & F.De Beule The United Nations and Transnational Corporations: A Personal Assessment; J.H.Dunning Disinvestment by Foreign-Owned Firms: Fact in Search of Framework; V.C.Simões The Rationales for Comprehensive Approaches to Corporate ProfitsTaxation in the European Union; S.Plasschaert Managerial Responses to Borderless Risk; A.Verbeke & J.R.Dewald TNCS, Locational Clustering and the Processs of Economic Development; J.Cantwell & K.Glac The Role of Developing Countries and Emerging Economies in International Inter-Firm R&D Partnering; D.Cloodt & J.Hagedoorn Tigers, Pussycats and Flying Geese: The Faunal Characteristics of Economic Growth in (South-)East Asia; L.Cuyvers & M.Dumont Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on the Agglomeration of China's Electronics Industry; H.Zhang FDI Productivity Spillovers in the Andean Region: Econometric Evidence from Columbian Firm-Level Panel Data; P.De Lombaerde & E.B.Pedraza Guevara The Multinationalization of Privatized Firms: The Case of the Main Spanish Multinationals in Latin America; J.J.Durán The Research Agenda in International Business: Past, Present and Future; P.J.Buckley & F.De Beule

JOHN H. DUNNING University of Reading and Rutgers, UK VITOR CORADO SIMÕES Universidade Technica de Lisboa, Portugal SYLVAIN PLASSCHAERT University of Antwerp and Leuven, Belgium ALAIN VERBEKE University of Calgary, Canada JAMES R. DEWALD University of Calgary, Canada JOHN CANTWELL University of Reading, UK KATHERINA GLAC Rutgers University, USA DANIELLE CLOODT Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands JOHN HAGEDOORN Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands M. DUMONT University of Antwerp, Belgium H. ZHANG University of Antwerp, Belgium PHILIPPE DE LOMBAERDE United Nations University, Finland ERIKA B. PEDRAZA GUEVARA Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Columbia JUAN J. DURÁN Universidad Autonama de Madrid, Spain PETER J. BUCKLEY University of Leeds, UK