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Subject: New Issue: Transnational Corporations Journal from UNCTAD
A new edition of the Transnational Corporations Journal is now
available, and can be downloaded (200 pages) from the UNCTAD website. As
many of you know, UNCTAD is the United National Conference on Trade and
Development (http://www.unctad.org/). The journal is published by the
Division of Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development
(http://r0.unctad.org/en/subsites/dite/).
To review past issues of the journal:
http://r0.unctad.org/en/subsites/dite/1_itncs/1_tncc.htm
To access the current issue of the journal:
http://r0.unctad.org/en/subsites/dite/pdfs/tnc_tocsv11n2.en.pdf
Following is the UNCTAD announcement of the publication, and a brief
profile of each article:
Geneva, 19 February 2003
Peter Nunnenkamp and Julius Spatz ask whether globalization has changed
the rules of the game for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) to
developing countries in the latest issue of Transnational Corporations,
a refereed journal published three times a year by UNCTAD.
The three articles and two research notes appearing in the August 2002
issue (vol. 11, no. 2) contain a variety of general and firm-level
analyses, focusing mostly on developing-country issues.
In their article -- the lead article for this issue -- Nunnenkamp and
Spatz argue that little has changed since the late 1980s and that
traditional market-related determinants are still dominant factors
shaping the distribution of FDI.
In the second article, Clifford Wymbs provides an industry analysis of
US public utility firms, concluding that firms that have not yet gone
international will likely become acquisition targets.
The third article provides a firm-level case study. Sonia Ferencikova
analyses the transition of a Slovak washing-machine producer from a
joint venture to its full acquisition by a US partner. This study is
intended to enhance understanding of why and how TNCs choose local
partners.
In the first research note, Jacques Morisset and Olivier Lumenga Neso
analyse administrative barriers to foreign investment in developing
countries and conclude that administrative costs of entry and
operational procedures vary greatly from one country to another and
influence the locational decisions of foreign investors.
The second research note, authored by Adrian E. Tschoegl, examines the
history of foreign banks in Saudi Arabia to shed light on the evolution
of FDI in banking and its contribution to the development of the host
country's financial sector.
For more information, contact Kumi Endo, Associate TNC Affairs Officer,
Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development, tel: +41
22 907 5748, email: [log in to unmask], or [log in to unmask] .
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