Technological innovation and multinational corporations /

Cantwell, John,

Technological innovation and multinational corporations / John Cantwell. - Oxford [England] ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : B. Blackwell, 1989. - xvi, 239 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-232) and index.

Historical trends in international patterns of technological innovation; a dynamic model of the post-war growth of international economic activity in Europe and the USA; the evolution of technological competition between US and European firms; technological advantage as a determinant of the international economic activity of firms; technological competition and intra-industry production in the industrialised world; a classical model of the impact of international trade and production on national industrial growth; towards and evolutionary theory of international production.

Analyzing technological competition between US, European and Japanese firms since the 1950s, the author presents a wide ranging but detailed consideration of evidence on the changing pattern of international trade and production in the major industrialized countries


eng.

9780631138471 TZS 92,241/=


Technological innovations
Competition, International.
International business enterprises.

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