New Multinational Enterprises from Korea and Taiwan

Roger van Hoesel is at present a Consultant at Buck Consultants International, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The research for this book was done while he worked at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has been published widely in journals and books focusing on economic developments in Korea and Taiwan, and is co-editor of Multinational Enterprises from the Netherlands (1999), also published by Routledge.

• Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Multinational enterprises and late industrialisation; Chapter 3 High-speed economic development of South Korea and Taiwan; Chapter 4 Governments and the organisation of economic activities; Chapter 5 Korea and Taiwan as outward investors; Chapter 6 Firm-level determinants of outward FDI from the electronics industry; Chapter 7 Four case studies of Korean and Taiwanese multinationals; Chapter 8 Summary and conclusions;

...a well researched and intensive look at the manner in which major South Korean and Taiwanese firms have ventured overseas. The detailed case studies - all taken from the electronics sector - and analysis fill a lacuna in the existing international business literature - Nick J. Freeman, ASEAN Economic Bulletin August 2001