The aims of the paper are: (a) to analyse the possible motives behind international location strategies of companies with particular emphasis on why companies may locate in many foreign countries; (b) to develop two complementary methods of assessing the degree of internationalisation and...

This paper describes the sectoral patterns of foreign direct investment in France, Italy and Spain, using a novel data set on manufacturing firms for the 1993–97 period. Significant heterogeneities emerge across countries in terms of weight and distribution of foreign presence, and in...

This paper examines the evolution since 1969 of the industrial structure of local technological development by US-owned multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the UK, by comparison with UK-owned MNEs in the US. The data used are the patents granted in the US to the largest US-owned and UK-owned...