The existing potential of SMEs remains untapped in most developing countries, including India. In India, most SMEs have a lower share of foreign goods and services to produce exports than larger firms. Moreover, dependent SMEs also have greater integration in terms of imports than independent...

In recent years developing countries have emerged as significant participants in the OFDI (outward foreign direct investment) activities having the strategic asset seeking motive. Such OFDI which is assets exploiting cum augmenting involves potential two way cross border knowledge flows. This...

Multinational companies (MNCs) from emerging markets (EMs) are new and very dynamic actors on the global scene. Starting from the late 1970s a strand of literature flourished on Third World multinationals (Lall, 1983a). More recently, the increasing expansion abroad by multinationals based in...

Technology import raises industrial competitiveness through increased productivity and efficiency of the concerned units. Thus, it is necessary for developing countries to have liberal regimes in favor of technology import. Increases in productivity and efficiency lead to competitiveness....

Despite the European Commission’s concrete steps to integrate the national car markets and reduce car price dispersion, significant car price differences exist. Moreover, international differences in taxation of sales and registration of motor vehicles do not give rise to considerable...

Firms operating with foreign collaborations (FCA units) have been facing a high degree of dependence on the parent MNEs (Multi-national Enterprises) compared to their local counterparts (Non-FAC units) owing to reasons like larger imports of raw materials, machinery, equipments and spares by...

Internationalization increases firms’ vulnerability to cyclical fluctuations in growth. For this reason, it is at best a positive strategy for a few firms; but certainly not for all. It is from this perspective that the present chapter will try to develop a quantitative analysis of the...

Liberalisation of outward FDI (OFDI) in India at the beginning of this millennium had resulted in a spurt in OFDI flows from India. Automotive was one of the leading sectors of origin of OFDI. Interestingly, it was also found that nearly half of the total innovation-oriented greenfield...