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Theories of Foreign Investment and Transnational Behaviour

In: Foreign Investment, Transnationals and Developing Countries

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  • Sanjaya Lall

    (Institute of Economics and Statistics)

  • Paul Streeten

    (Queen Elizabeth House and Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

Abstract

The description of TNCs advanced in the previous chapter may already have suggested many of their prominent characteristics. Such a description is, however, not sufficient to provide an explanation of why firms expand abroad and are concentrated in certain industries, nor of how they react to each other’s moves and to the demands of increasing size. It will be useful for our purpose to review briefly the existing literature on this, using the classification of approaches—economic, organisational and motivational—adopted in the last chapter, and to highlight their main features, which to a large extent determine their effects on developing host economies.

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  • Sanjaya Lall & Paul Streeten, 1977. "Theories of Foreign Investment and Transnational Behaviour," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Foreign Investment, Transnationals and Developing Countries, chapter 0, pages 16-46, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-02290-8_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-02290-8_2
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