Transnational Corporations and Economic Development

JOHN H. DUNNING University of Reading and Rutgers, UKVITOR CORADO SIMÕES Universidade Technica de Lisboa, PortugalSYLVAIN PLASSCHAERT University of Antwerp and Leuven, BelgiumALAIN VERBEKE University of Calgary, CanadaJAMES R. DEWALD University of Calgary, CanadaJOHN CANTWELL University of Reading, UKKATHERINA GLAC Rutgers University, USADANIELLE CLOODT Universiteit Maastricht, The NetherlandsJOHN HAGEDOORN Universiteit Maastricht, The NetherlandsM. DUMONT University of Antwerp, BelgiumH. ZHANG University of Antwerp, BelgiumPHILIPPE DE LOMBAERDE United Nations University, FinlandERIKA B. PEDRAZA GUEVARA Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, ColumbiaJUAN J. DURÁN Universidad Autonama de Madrid, SpainPETER J. BUCKLEY University of Leeds, UK

• Transnational Corporations and Economic Development: An Introduction; L.Cuyvers & F.De Beule The United Nations and Transnational Corporations: A Personal Assessment; J.H.Dunning Disinvestment by Foreign-Owned Firms: Fact in Search of Framework; V.C.Simões The Rationales for Comprehensive Approaches to Corporate ProfitsTaxation in the European Union; S.Plasschaert Managerial Responses to Borderless Risk; A.Verbeke & J.R.Dewald TNCS, Locational Clustering and the Processs of Economic Development; J.Cantwell & K.Glac The Role of Developing Countries and Emerging Economies in International Inter-Firm R&D Partnering; D.Cloodt & J.Hagedoorn Tigers, Pussycats and Flying Geese: The Faunal Characteristics of Economic Growth in (South-)East Asia; L.Cuyvers & M.Dumont Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on the Agglomeration of China's Electronics Industry; H.Zhang FDI Productivity Spillovers in the Andean Region: Econometric Evidence from Columbian Firm-Level Panel Data; P.De Lombaerde & E.B.Pedraza Guevara The Multinationalization of Privatized Firms: The Case of the Main Spanish Multinationals in Latin America; J.J.Durán The Research Agenda in International Business: Past, Present and Future; P.J.Buckley & F.De Beule

'This edited volume...is a welcome contribution (from a neutral point of view) to the literature on the impact of TNCs on economic development...the books is a clearly written contribution that fits in the work of Daniel van den Bulcke and is an informative book.' - Cees van Beers - Development and Change