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Intra-industry foreign direct investment, uneven development and globalisation : the legacy of Stephen Hymer
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Driffield, Nigel L. and Love, James H. (2005) Intra-industry foreign direct investment, uneven development and globalisation : the legacy of Stephen Hymer. Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 24 (Number 1). pp. 55-78. doi:10.1093/cpe/bzi003 ISSN 0277-5921.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cpe/bzi003
Abstract
This paper revisits the issue of intra-industry foreign direct investment (FDI). This issue was considered in Stephen Hymer's early work, but was not subsequently developed, and was largely ignored in the literature for some time. Using the example of the UK, this paper traces the patterns of intra-industry FDI, both across countries and industries, for both the manufacturing and service sectors. Despite the undoubted increase in the integration of goods and factor markets since the time of Hymer's writing, the analysis presented here shows that the pattern has changed little in the last 40 years. The paper then goes on to discuss the motives for intra-industry FDI, relating it to technology flows and factor cost differentials. Finally, we present some analysis relating intra-industry FDI to uneven development, both between developed and developing countries, and between regions of a developed country. It is clear that intra-industry FDI is still very much a developed country phenomenon, as Hymer suggested, with both developing countries and poorer regions of developed countries unlikely to reap any of the benefits. In this context, one-way and two-way FDI must be seen as different phenomena within the debate on globalisation.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Contributions to Political Economy | ||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||
ISSN: | 0277-5921 | ||||
Official Date: | 2005 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 24 | ||||
Number: | Number 1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 55-78 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1093/cpe/bzi003 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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