1st Edition

Transnationals and Governments Recent policies in Japan, France, Germany, the United States and Britain

    244 Pages
    by Routledge

    The potential ease with which transnational corporations can relocate their activities gives them great leverage over individual governments. The authors outline the various policies that the world's major economies have adopted to cope with the unique issues created by transnationals. They reveal that there has been a marked contrast in the level of concern about transnationals' activities across the countries studied, and that this has resulted in significantly different approaches towards transnationals.

    1 INTRODUCTION: A SPECTRUM OF POLICY APPROACHES 2 JAPAN 3 FRANCE 4 GERMANY 5 UNITED STATES 16 BRITAIN 7 ISSUES OF CONCERN

    Biography

    David Bailey is Lecturer in Economics in the Research Centre for Industrial Strategy, University of Birmingham Business School. His research interests cover issues in industrial strategy, particularly policy towards transnational corporations. George Harte is Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Edinburgh. A Chartered Accountant, his research interests include social auditing, the use of accounting information in ethical and environmental investments and in economic regulation. Roger Sugden is Director of the Research Centre for Industrial Strategy and Senior Lecturer in Industrial Economics at the University of Birmingham Business School. He has published widely in the area of industrial economics, particularly on transnational corporations.