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Multinationals from small countries /

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press , c1977.Description: xv, 224 p. :illISBN:
  • 026201050X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.8'8 MUL
LOC classification:
  • HD2755.5 .M845
Summary: This publication consists chiefly of papers presented at a conference held at M.I.T. on January 8 and 9, 1976. It examines the growth and development of multinational firms (MNCs) with specific reference to multinationals from small countries where technological knowledge can be scaled down to fit the social or national market. This include some of the oldest and largest multinational firms, Nestle Alimentana, S.A. and Brown, Boveri and Cie, both Swiss companies, are obvious examples of small country multinational firms. The first group of four papers deals with the activity of multinational firms from the developed countries of Switzerland, Sweden, France, and Australia. The second group of papers, one by Louis T. Wells, Jr. of Harvard and another by Carlos F. Diza-Alejandro of Yale, looks toward the developing countries.
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Monograph & others Monograph & others CBN HQ Library General Stacks Non-fiction 338.8'8 MUL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31008100498373

Includes bibliographies and index.

This publication consists chiefly of papers presented at a conference held at M.I.T. on January 8 and 9, 1976. It examines the growth and development of multinational firms (MNCs) with specific reference to multinationals from small countries where technological knowledge can be scaled down to fit the social or national market.
This include some of the oldest and largest multinational firms, Nestle Alimentana, S.A. and Brown, Boveri and Cie, both Swiss companies, are obvious examples of small country multinational firms.
The first group of four papers deals with the activity of multinational firms from the developed countries of Switzerland, Sweden, France, and Australia.
The second group of papers, one by Louis T. Wells, Jr. of Harvard and another by Carlos F. Diza-Alejandro of Yale, looks toward the developing countries.

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