Globalization and the Theory of MNE Activity
Globalization and the Theory of MNE Activity
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全球化与跨国公司活动理论
DOI：
10.1057/9780230599161_2
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发表时间：
2000
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通讯作者：
J. Dunning
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作者：
J. Dunning
本章试图回答这样一个问题：“经济活动的全球化在多大程度上、以何种方式需要对现有的国际生产范式和理论进行重新评估？”更具体地说，“20世纪60年代和70年代学者们确定的国际商业活动的动机、决定因素和组织模式是否与我们当代的世界情景相关并适用？”是需要进行重大变革，还是仅仅需要对我们的思想、主张和范式进行微调，以适应20世纪90年代末发生的事件？这一章将以下列方式进行。首先，它将把当前对我们关于跨国公司活动的理论化状态的不安置于学术思想发展的两个前分水岭的背景下，即20世纪60年代初和70年代末；它将通过当时的事件和新的分析见解的出现来确定这些分水岭。其次，它将考虑当代思维如何影响我们对不同类型的外国直接投资的理解——特别是第三世界跨国公司的外国直接投资，以及旨在增强投资公司竞争优势的外国直接投资；第三，它将考虑如果要充分解释国际生产的动态，跨国公司活动的经济和行为理论需要在多大程度上以及以何种方式进行整合。然而，在这个阶段应该提出另外三个介绍性的观点。第一，最好把全球化看作是加深各机构和（或）国家之间经济相互依存的过程。在大多数情况下，90年代后期的世界经济并没有全球化，尽管某些类型的增值活动和公司职能，一些国家和一些地区比其他国家和地区更全球化。然而，从大量的统计数据中可以清楚地看出，经济活动正变得更加全球化
This chapter seeks to answer the question'To what extent, and in what ways, does the globalization of economic activity require a reappraisal of existing paradigms and theories of international production?'! More specifically,'Are the motives, determinants and organizational modes of international business activity, as identified by scholars in the 1960s and 1970s, relevant and applicable to our contemporary world scenario? Are drastic changes called for, or is it simply that our ideas, propositions and paradigms2 need to be fine-tuned to accommodate the events of the late 1990s?'The chapter will proceed in the following way. First, it will place the current unease about the state of our theorizing about MNE activity within the context of two previous watersheds in the development of scholarly thinking, viz those of the early 1960s and of the late 1970s; and it will pinpoint such watersheds by both the events of the time and the advent of new analytical insights. Secondly, it will consider how contemporary thinking is affecting our understanding about different types of FDI-and particularly that of Third World MNEs, and that directed to augmenting the competitive advantages of the investing firms; and, thirdly, it will consider how far, and in what ways, economic and behavioural theories of MNE activity need to be integrated if they are to adequately explain the dynamics of international production.However, three other introductory points should be made at this stage. The first is that globalization is best considered as a process towards the deepening of economic interdependence between institutions and/or countries. For the most part, the world economy of the late 1990s is not globalized, although some types of value-added activities and corporate functions, some countries and some regions are more globalized than others. What, however, is clear from a plethora of statistics3 is that economic activity is becoming more globalized-
DOI：
10.1002/tie.5060080409
发表时间：
1966-05
期刊：
The International Executive
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作者：
R. Vernon
通讯作者：
R. Vernon