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Book SynopsisThis book examines corporate strategies which are driving the processes of globalization. These strategies are evolving under the influence of national policies and of various patterns of cooperation between governments.
The authors study the effects of different policy environments on the management of corporate operations. The interdependencies between countries are analysed as determinants of policies, with efforts to assess ways in which the activities of firms affect those interdependencies. Attention is given to the structural consequences of corporate strategies for decision makers shaping fiscal, monetary, financial, trade, industrial, foreign direct investment and competition policies. The authors aim to identify requirements and opportunities for cooperation between firms and governments, across borders and sectors. Concerted entrepreneurship and collaborative policy making are advocated.
Trade Review'. . . a useful reference for trade policy scholars, as well as policymakers in search of guidance regarding the institutional and economic forces likely to condition the policy making environment over the foreseeable future.' -- Steven Globerman, Journal of International Business Studies
Table of ContentsContents: 1. Economic Cooperation: Summitry, Institutions and Structural Change 2. Corporations and Structural Change in the World Economy 3. Contestability and Concentration in World Markets 4. Structural Competitiveness and Interdependencies: Regional Patterns 5. Governments, Macroorganizational Policies and Structural Change: Contrasts within the Triad 6. Technocratic-Corporate Partnering: Extending Alliance Capitalism 7. Organizational Efficiency and Structural Change: A Meso-Level Analysis 8. Trade Policy and Competition Law: Issues for Developing Countries 9. Promoting North–South Complementarities 10. Corporate Strategies and the Environment 11. Advanced Political Development and Collective Management Index
