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The Political Economy of Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in the Us and the UK: Multinationals, Subnational Regions and the Investment Location Decision First Edition
Author(s): Carl Aaron (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 26 Oct. 1998
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780333710708
- ISBN-13: 0333710703
Book Description
Inward investment by Japanese manufacturing multinationals has come to have a profound influence on the UK and US economies. Focusing on the 1970s and 1980s, this study looks at the political economy of the investment location decision using an analytical framework and four detailed case studies. In addition to the larger issues of protectionism, globalization and inter-firm competition, the book investigates whether and how subnational actors may influence the specific subnational locational decision – an issue that should be of interest to any subnational region attempting to adapt to structural shifts in the global economy.
