"Business and Development Studies: Issues and Perspectives provides a comprehensive collection of cutting edge theoretical and empirical contributions to the emerging field of business and development studies. Compared to more traditional business school accounts of business in developing...

Transnational Corporations and Local Firms in Developing Countries - Linkages and Upgrading -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I Introduction and Conceptual Issues -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction and Analytical Framework -- Introduction -- A Conceptual and Analytical Framework -- The Structure...

The paper addresses the question of which implications MNC strategies have to FDI linkage effects in developing countries. Two contrasting MNC strategies reflecting an integration-responsiveness dichotomy are scrutinized as to their job effects on local linkage partners in developing countries....