Governments, Globalization, And International Business - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198296053 ISBN 13: 9780198296058

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1993

Synopsis

It is a cliche to say that we live in a globalized world in which investment flows, communications, and the operations of multinationals from all parts of the world have changed the character of the international business environment. But the easy concept of globalization poses as many questions as it answers. In this book, a prestigious group of international scholars explores in detail the consequences of globalization-defined as "the deepening structural interdependence of the world economy."

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This book brings together a number of international scholars to provide in-depth examination of the consequences of the deepening structural interdependence of the world economy. (Aslib Book Guide)

...the volume offers a wide variety of information and inspires much thought on the relationship between governments, globalisation and international business. It consequently makes for very interesting reading. - Antje Hagen. Business History.

Synopsis:

It is a cliche to say that we live in a globalized world in which investment flows, communications and the operations of multinationals from all parts of the world have changed the character of the international business environment. But the easy concept of globalization poses as many questions as it answers and it is the purpose of this book to address these challenges. In Governments, Globalization, and International Business a prestigious group of international scholars explore in detail the consequences of globalization defined as the deepening structural interdependence of the world economy. In Part 1 John Dunning, Richard Lipsey, Susan Strange and Stephen Kobrin analyse these changes from different disciplinary perspectives and intellectual backgrounds. The basic question they address is what are the consequences of globalization on the nature, form, and level of domestic economic activity?. In doing so, they also consider the increasing mobility of knowledge and information, the role of international corporations, and the sovereignty of the nation state in the modern borderless world.

In Part 2 the different experiences and policies of a number of economies are assessed in a series of country studies, These include the G7 countries as well as the developing East Asian economies, Latin America and smaller developed countries. In the final part John Stopford and Edward Graham stand back and look at the changing role of National and Supranational governance. In doing so they underscore a fundamental tenet of the volume, that globalization requires national governments to re-evaluate various factors of their systemic governance. Yet despite apparently convergent trends they argue there are no universal prescriptions for the way governments should respond to globalization, and the policy challenge is a more complex one than merely more or less government.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0198296053
• ISBN 13: 9780198296058
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 540
• Editor: Dunning John H.