Governance, Multinationals and Growth

Edited by Lorraine Eden, Professor of Management and Gina and Anthony Bahr Professor in Business, Texas A&M University, US and Wendy Dobson, Professor and Director, Institute for International Business, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada

• Contents: Foreword by Peter J. Buckley Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction and Overview 2. How to Thrive in an International Economy Part II: Corporate Governance, Multinationals and Growth 3. Continental Integration and Foreign Ownership of Canadian Industry: A Retrospective Analysis 4. Who Owns Whom? Economic Nationalism and Family Controlled Pyramidal Groups in Canada 5. Assessing International Mergers and Acquisitions as a Mode of Foreign Direct Investment 6. Foreign Ownership and Total Factor Productivity Part III: Free Trade, Multinationals and Growth 7. Factor Price Differences and Multinational Activity 8. FDI in an FTA with Uncertain Market Access 9. How do Regional Trade Agreements Affect Intra-Regional and Inter-Regional FDI? 10. Responses to Trade Liberalization: Changes in Product Diversification in Foreign- and Domestic-Controlled Plants Part IV: Public Governance, Multinationals and Growth 11. FDI and the International Policy Environment: Back to the Future? Not Quite! 12. Economic Issues Raised by NAFTA Chapter 11 Investor-to-State Dispute Settlement Cases Having Environmental Implications 13. Location Incentives and Inter-state Competition for FDI: Bidding Wars in the Automotive Industry 14. Policy Roundtable: Life as Neighbor to an Economic Giant – Issues and Options Part V: Conclusions 15. Issues on Governance, Multinationals and Growth: Thoughts on Method, Policy and Research Suggested by the Festschrift Papers Index