Multinationals and Emerging Economies: The Quest for Innovation and Sustainability (Innovation, Co-operation and Development series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848440081 ISBN 13: 9781848440081

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

The global economy is changing rapidly and multinational corporations (MNCs) are at the forefront of this transformation. The book provides novel and profound analyses of how MNCs and emerging economies are related, and how this relationship affects the dynamics of the global economy.

In particular, the authors deal with the nexus between multinationals, emerging economies and innovation from a variety of different perspectives. Innovation is regarded as a core driving force in the global economy but the authors show how it can impede as well as encourage sustainability. Multinationals and Emerging Economies brings together insights from business studies and economics, and combines concise theoretical discussion with empirical analyses of unique data.

Researchers and graduate students in the fields of international business, international economics, international relations, innovation studies and strategy will find much of interest to them throughout the book. It will also be an invaluable tool for policy-makers in economics and commerce.

About this title

About the Author

Edited by Wilfred Dolfsma, Professor of Business Management & Organization, Wageningen University & Research, Geert Duysters, Tilburg University and Ionara Costa, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848440081
• ISBN 13: 9781848440081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Dolfsma Wilfred, Duysters Geert, Costa Ionara