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Service Sector Multinationals and Developing Countries

In: Multinational Enterprises in Less Developed Countries

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  • Peter Enderwick

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This chapter examines some of the principal issues in the relationships between multinational enterprises (MNEs), the service sector and developing countries. The linkages are both complex and important. There is sizeable investment by developed country MNEs in the service industries of developing countries. Increasingly, developing country-based MNEs are operating in the service sectors of the developing and more advanced economies. The importance of this investment results from the growing significance of the service sector in the world economy, its considerable fluidity and the role that services play in the development process (UNCTAD 1985). MNEs enter the picture as major suppliers of services in the developed nations and, because of the particular economic characteristics of services (Enderwick, 1988a), as a principal mode for transfer of service technologies and output to the developing nations.

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  • Peter Enderwick, 1991. "Service Sector Multinationals and Developing Countries," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Peter J. Buckley & Jeremy Clegg (ed.), Multinational Enterprises in Less Developed Countries, chapter 13, pages 292-309, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11699-7_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11699-7_13
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    1. Kankam-Kwarteng, Collins & Sarpong, Appiah & Amofah, Ofosu & Acheampong, Stephen, 2021. "Marketing performance of service firms: Recognizing market sensing capability and customer interaction orientation," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 7, pages 8-48.
    2. Collins Kankam-Kwarteng & Appiah Sarpong & Ofosu Amofah & Stephen Acheampong, 2021. "Marketing performance of service firms: Recognizing market sensing capability and customer interaction orientation," Post-Print hal-03376959, HAL.

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