Contents:
Part I: Where Do We Stand? 1. Multinational Enterprises and the End of the Global Strategy
2. Location Determinants of Multinational Firms: the Effects of Firms' Strategic Choices of the WTO Trade-Investment Regime
3. The International Competitiveness of the UK: is it Eroding or Rather Chaging Form?
Part II: Globalization and Regional Integration 4. Regional Economic Integration between the EU and Central and Eastern Europe: the Impact Upon FDI and Trade
5. The Locations of US Multinational Firms in the European Community: Determinants of US Foreign Direct Investment into the EC, 1951-1990
6. The Impact of European Integration on FDR: The UK Food Industry in the 1990s
7. The Governance Structure of Japanese Subsidiaries in Western Europe and Evidence
Part III: Location Strategies
8. Hierarchical Location Choice and Multinational Firms' Strategy, a Nested Logit Model Applied to Japanese Investment in Europe
9. The Geographic Concentration of FDI in Asia
10. Relocation and Public Aid: a First Report
11. Clusters, Innovation and Growth: a Comparative Study of European Countries