Written by a leading authority, this book analyses future developments in global business; US and Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in Europe; competitiveness, trade and integration; spatial dimensions of globalization.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Alliance Capitalism; Chapter 2 The Advent of Alliance Capitalism; Chapter 3 Reappraising the Eclectic Paradigm in an Age of Alliance Capitalism; Chapter 4 Reconfiguring the Boundaries of International Business Activity; Part 2 Trade, Integration and Locational Issues; Chapter 5 What's Wrong—and Right —With Trade Theory?; Chapter 6 MNE Activity; Chapter 7 Globalization, Technological Change and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity; Part 3 FDI, Industrial Restructuring and Competitiveness; Chapter 8 Re-Evaluating the Benefits of Foreign Direct Investment; Chapter 9 The Investment Development Path Revisited; Chapter 10 The Concept of Country Competitiveness; Chapter 11 The Geographical Sources of the Competitiveness of Firms; Part 4 The Japanese Connection; Chapter 12 Recent Foreign Direct Investment in Japan and the United States; Chapter 13 The Strategy of Japanese and Us Manufacturing Investors in Europe; Part 5 The Age of Paradoxes; Chapter 14 Some Paradoxes of the Emerging Global Economy;