Global Capitalism, FDI and Competitiveness

The late John H. Dunning OBE, former Emeritus Professor of International Investment and Business Studies, University of Reading, UK and Emeritus State of New Jersey Professor of International Business, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, US

• Contents: Introduction 1. International Business in a Changing World Environment 2. Whither Global Capitalism? 3. Some Paradoxes of the Emerging Global Economy: The Multinational Solution 4. Globalization, Economic Restructuring and Development 5. Regions, Globalization and the Knowledge-based Economy: The Issues Stated 6. Location and the Multinational Enterprise: A Neglected Factor? 7. Globalization, Technological Change and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity 8. Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Multinational Enterprises to Host Countries: A ‘Tool-Kit’ Approach 9. Re-evaluating the Benefits of Foreign Direct Investment 10. The European Internal Market Program and Inbound Foreign Direct Investment 11. The Competitive Advantages of Countries and MNE Activity 12. The Geographical Sources of the Competitiveness of Firms 13. Multinational Enterprises, Industrial Restructuring and Competitiveness: A UK Perspective 14. Governments and the Macro-organization of Economic Activity: A Historical and Spatial Perspective 15. Globalization: The Challenge for National Economic Regimes Index

'These volumes should be required reading for anyone with an interest in international business and globalisation. They add immeasurably to our understanding.'