Multinational Corporations in Political Environments

Multinational Corporations in Political Environments

Author: Usha C. V. Haley

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 9810244274

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Tested in South Africa when US multinationals were facing diverse pressures from stockholders, governments and consumers to leave, the research provides a prism to isolate how different stakeholders' actions influenced multinationals' behaviours. Detailed analyses of subsidiary-level archival data over a period of four crucial years revealed that the multinationals engaged in diverse forms of leaving reflecting their involvements, strategies and stakeholders' influences. The research, the first to test which stakeholders' strategies, including boycotts and sanctions, influenced multinationals and which did not, and to identify their effects on multinationals' behaviours, has enormous implications for policy makers, managers and social activists.


Strategic Choice Under Uncertainty

Strategic Choice Under Uncertainty

Author: Mzamo Mangaliso

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780761850885

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"Written by a scholar who was there...This is a must read for insights on the effectiveness of international sanctions and investor activism."---Chuck Lacy, president. The Barred Rock Fund, and former president. Ben & Jerry's --


Banking and Business in South Africa

Banking and Business in South Africa

Author: Stuart Jones

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1988-06-18

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1349096326

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While Webb examines the progress of the first colonial bank in the Eastern Cape and Chapman the wider international context, most of the book focuses on capitalist enterprise in the 20th century and the way in which South African development has mirrored that in other capitalist economies.


What Holds Us Together

What Holds Us Together

Author: David Chidester

Publisher: HSRC Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780796920300

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Examines the effects of a range of global forces on local forms of identity, coherence, and cohesion. With contributions from intellectuals from business, organised labour, community organisations, government structures and academics, this book is useful for those interested in the wide-ranging effects of globalisation on South Africa.


Multinational Enterprises, Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in Africa

Multinational Enterprises, Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in Africa

Author: Bernard Michael Gilroy

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-03-30

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 3790816108

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How can Africa, the world’s most lagging region, benefit from globalisation and achieve sustained economic growth? Africa needs greater investment by Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) to improve competitiveness and generate more growth through positive spill-over effects. Despite the fact that Africa’s returns on investment averaged 29% since 1990, Africa has gained merely 1% of global Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows. The challenge for African countries is how to be a more desirable destination for FDI. The study integrates three currents of economic research, namely from the literature on (endogenous) economic growth, convergence and regional integration, the explanations for Africa’s poor growth and the growing understanding of the role of MNEs in a global economy. The empirical side of the book is based on an econometric study of the determinants of FDI in Africa as well as a detailed firm-level survey conducted in 2000.


Multinational Corporations and Local Firms in Emerging Economies

Multinational Corporations and Local Firms in Emerging Economies

Author: Eric Rugraff

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 9089642943

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In order for foreign direct investment to have deep and lasting positive effects on host countries, it is essential that multinational corporations have close direct and indirect interaction with local firms. A valuable addition to the emerging literature on multinational-local firm interfaces, this book provides a number of case studies from emerging economies that examine such mutually beneficial business relationships and the policy measures necessary to support them.


U.S. Relations With South Africa

U.S. Relations With South Africa

Author: Y. G-m. Lulat

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-30

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 100001066X

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Relations between the United States and South Africa - or the parts of the world these nations now occupy - go nearly as far back as the very beginning of their inception as permanent European colonial intrusions. This book is a critical overview of these relations from the late seventeenth century to the present. Unprecedented in its scope - and s