Going Multinational (eBook, ePUB)

The Korean Experience of Direct Investment
Redaktion: Sachwald, Frédérique

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At the beginning of the 1990s, Korean firms embarked on an impressive wave of direct investment abroad. This dramatic multinationalization was considered as yet another sign of Korea's remarkable economic performance, especially as a high proportion of the foreign ventures were located in advanced countries. But this unbalanced quest for globalization actually tested the 'Korean model' to its limits; after the 1997 crisis a new policy prepared the way for a surge of inward investment. Using empirical tests and case-studies, this collection shows that Korean groups have invested in developed countries to jump over trade barriers, but also to source advanced technology and marketing capabilities. Moreover, their ambitious strategies have been stimulated by oligopolistic rivalry among the chaebols. From a policy perspective, the book provides an original discussion of national ownership by questioning the substitutability between inward and outward foreign investment and its relationship with the evolution of the national innovation system. By shedding light on the pattern of Korea's internationalization, these essays make a valuable contribution to the theory of international production and provide important insights for the current policy debates on globalization and innovation-led growth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135137977
• Artikelnr.: 42831181

Autorenporträt

Frederique Sachwald is Head of Economic Studies at IFRI, Paris, (French Institute for International Relations) and an affiliated professor at University Paris XIII. She has been published extensively on multinationals and cooperative alliances between firms in the context of innovation-led competition. One of her main research areas is the interactions between globalization and national systems of production and innovation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Frederique Sachwald Emerging Multinational: the Main Issues 2. Francoise
Nicolas A Case of Government-led Integration into the World Economy 3.
Serge Perrin Korean Direct Investment in North America and Europe: Patterns
and Determinants 4. Luis Miotti and Frederique Sachwald Korean
Multinationals' Strategies and International Learning 5. Serge Perrin The
Internationalization of Korean Electronics Firms: Domestic Rivalry and
Tariff-Jumping 6. Marc Lautier The International Development of the Korean
Automobile Industry 7. Kong-Rae Lee Technological Catching-up through
Overseas Direct Investment: Samsung's Camera Business 8. Alice Amsden, René
Belderbos, John Cantwell, Byungki Ha, Pierre Jacquet, Randall Jones, Bruce
Kogut and Lynn Mytelka Discussion 9. Frédérique Sachwald Globalization and
Korea's Development Trajectory: the Roles of Domestic and Foreign
Multinationals