Foreign Investment Strategies in Restructuring Economies: Learning from Corporate Experiences in Chile - Couverture rigide

Kline, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0899307795 ISBN 13 : 9780899307794

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1992

Synopsis

Restructuring economies in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere are abandoning their hostility to foreign enterprises and adopting policies to attract international investment. This book examines corporate experiences in Chile, one of the first nations to move successfully from a statist economy to an open market system using privatization, debt conversion, and liberal trade and investment policies. Drawing from research on over seventy foreign corporations, the book compares investment strategies used to assess risk and exploit business opportunities under conditions of fundamental economic change. Case studies describe how and why firms selected different financing, management, employment, production, and marketing approaches in establishing or expanding their operations.

After a brief historical review, the book examines key policy decisions in the 1980s that shaped Chile's new economy. Case studies are then analyzed by sector, covering mining and energy, nontraditional exports (forestry, fishing, and agribusiness), banking and insurance, and other industries including computers, telecommunications, chemicals, electrical goods, automotive products, foods and beverages, and pharmaceuticals. Summary chapters relate these learning experiences to broader strategic issues such as ownership and control, financing methods, technology transfer, trade policy, labor relations, taxation, regulatory reform, and coordinating global corporate operations. This book presents cumulative learning experiences useful for business executives and public officials who must develop new foreign investment strategies, as well as scholars and students interested in the role of foreign investment in developing countries.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

JOHN M. KLINE is Deputy Director of the Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Formerly Director of International Economic Policy at the National Association of Manufacturers, Dr. Kline is the author of International Codes and Multinational Business (Quorum, 1985) and State Government Influence in U.S. International Economic Policy, as well as numerous scholarly articles. He has conducted studies for the UN Centre on Transnational Corporations and the Inter-American Development Bank and is a member of the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on International Investment.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0899307795
• ISBN 13: 9780899307794
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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