Tagi Sagafi-Nejad, John H Dunning

The UN and Transnational Corporations

From Code of Conduct to Global Compact

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tagi Sagafi-nejad is the Radcliffe Killam Distinguished Professor of International Business and Director of the Ph.D. International Business Administration at Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas. He is author of Controlling International Technology Transfer: Issues, Perspectives, and Implications and Technology Exports from Developing Countries: The Case of Egypt. John H. Dunning is Emeritus Professor of International Business at the University of Reading, UK, and State of New Jersey Emeritus Professor of International Business at Rutgers University. He has authored, co-authored, or edited 42 books on the economics of international direct investment and the multinational enterprise, and on industrial and regional economics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780253220127
• ISBN-10: 0253220122
• Artikelnr.: 23893203

Autorenporträt

Tagi Sagafi-nejad, John H. Dunning

Inhaltsangabe

List of Boxes, Figures, and Tables
Series Editors' Foreword Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss
Preface & Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Ideas and Institutions Relevant to Foreign Investment and TNCs Prior to
World War II
2. The Early Post-World War II Era: From the Golden Years of FDI to the
Incipient Rise of Economic Nationalism
3. The 1970s: Gathering Storm
4. The Group of Eminent Persons: The Eye of the Hurricane
5. The Commission and the Centre, New York Years, 1974-1992
6. New York to Geneva: The UNCTAD Years
7. World Investment Report Series: 1991-2005
8. Other Members of the UN Galaxy: The Constellation
9. The Legacy and Future
Notes
Appendix 1: Organizational Diagram of UNCTC at its Inception, 1974
Appendix 2: From New York (UNCTC) to Geneva (DITE): Leadership
Index
About the Authors
About the United Nations Intellectual History Project