The paper starts with a brief analysis of Hymer's early work on the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) and of his later work dealing with their effects on the nation-states, their governments, labour and the international division of labour. The paper then goes on to argue that the...

The paper compares the structural characteristics, market conditions, organizational features, strategic behaviour and performance of merged versus unmerged private business establishments in the UK. The results are based on the analysis of the 1990 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey. The...

The paper analyses two different indicators of internationalisation. The transnationality index developed by the UNCTAD links the internationalisation process to the dichotomy home versus foreign production. The network spread index considers internationalisation in relation to the number of...

The paper deals with the flow of earnings from inward and outward foreign direct investment. The paper starts with a review of some works which stress the intertemporal effects on the balance of payments and from it on the real sector of the economy. This is designed to give an introduction to...