This book evaluates the contribution of third world multinational enterprises to the competitiveness of their home and host countries in the context of Brazilian and Chilean MNE's. Third world MNE's can be important agents of growth, a fact that until now has been largely ignored in the literature. This book fills the gap in the literature by looking at third world MNE's ability to innovate and examining the potential for their innovations to be diffused to other home country firms and thereby improve their home country's competitiveness.

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FRANCESCA BEAUSANG is a lecturer in Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to this she received her PhD in Management Studies from the University of Cambridge. She has done research on the internal and external organizational features of multinational enterprises and on innovation policy.

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Book Title: Third World Multinationals
Book Subtitle: Engine of Competitiveness or New Form of Dependency?
Authors: Francesca Beausang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230508323
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1313-5Published: 25 July 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51174-7Published: 01 January 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50832-3Published: 25 July 2003
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 212
Topics: International Business, Development Economics

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