Foreign Investment Strategies in Restructuring Economies: Learning from Corporate Experiences in Chile
Restructuring economies in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere are abandoning their hostility to foreign enterprises and adopting policies to attract international investment. This book examines corporate experiences in Chile, one of the first nations to move successfully from a statist economy to an open market system using privatization, debt conversion, and liberal trade and investment policies. Drawing from research on over seventy foreign corporations, the book compares investment strategies used to assess risk and exploit business opportunities under conditions of fundamental economic change. Case studies describe how and why firms selected different financing, management, employment, production, and marketing approaches in establishing or expanding their operations.

After a brief historical review, the book examines key policy decisions in the 1980s that shaped Chile's new economy. Case studies are then analyzed by sector, covering mining and energy, nontraditional exports (forestry, fishing, and agribusiness), banking and insurance, and other industries including computers, telecommunications, chemicals, electrical goods, automotive products, foods and beverages, and pharmaceuticals. Summary chapters relate these learning experiences to broader strategic issues such as ownership and control, financing methods, technology transfer, trade policy, labor relations, taxation, regulatory reform, and coordinating global corporate operations. This book presents cumulative learning experiences useful for business executives and public officials who must develop new foreign investment strategies, as well as scholars and students interested in the role of foreign investment in developing countries.

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Foreign Investment Strategies in Restructuring Economies: Learning from Corporate Experiences in Chile
Restructuring economies in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere are abandoning their hostility to foreign enterprises and adopting policies to attract international investment. This book examines corporate experiences in Chile, one of the first nations to move successfully from a statist economy to an open market system using privatization, debt conversion, and liberal trade and investment policies. Drawing from research on over seventy foreign corporations, the book compares investment strategies used to assess risk and exploit business opportunities under conditions of fundamental economic change. Case studies describe how and why firms selected different financing, management, employment, production, and marketing approaches in establishing or expanding their operations.

After a brief historical review, the book examines key policy decisions in the 1980s that shaped Chile's new economy. Case studies are then analyzed by sector, covering mining and energy, nontraditional exports (forestry, fishing, and agribusiness), banking and insurance, and other industries including computers, telecommunications, chemicals, electrical goods, automotive products, foods and beverages, and pharmaceuticals. Summary chapters relate these learning experiences to broader strategic issues such as ownership and control, financing methods, technology transfer, trade policy, labor relations, taxation, regulatory reform, and coordinating global corporate operations. This book presents cumulative learning experiences useful for business executives and public officials who must develop new foreign investment strategies, as well as scholars and students interested in the role of foreign investment in developing countries.

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Foreign Investment Strategies in Restructuring Economies: Learning from Corporate Experiences in Chile

Foreign Investment Strategies in Restructuring Economies: Learning from Corporate Experiences in Chile

by John Kline
Foreign Investment Strategies in Restructuring Economies: Learning from Corporate Experiences in Chile

Foreign Investment Strategies in Restructuring Economies: Learning from Corporate Experiences in Chile

by John Kline

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Overview

Restructuring economies in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere are abandoning their hostility to foreign enterprises and adopting policies to attract international investment. This book examines corporate experiences in Chile, one of the first nations to move successfully from a statist economy to an open market system using privatization, debt conversion, and liberal trade and investment policies. Drawing from research on over seventy foreign corporations, the book compares investment strategies used to assess risk and exploit business opportunities under conditions of fundamental economic change. Case studies describe how and why firms selected different financing, management, employment, production, and marketing approaches in establishing or expanding their operations.

After a brief historical review, the book examines key policy decisions in the 1980s that shaped Chile's new economy. Case studies are then analyzed by sector, covering mining and energy, nontraditional exports (forestry, fishing, and agribusiness), banking and insurance, and other industries including computers, telecommunications, chemicals, electrical goods, automotive products, foods and beverages, and pharmaceuticals. Summary chapters relate these learning experiences to broader strategic issues such as ownership and control, financing methods, technology transfer, trade policy, labor relations, taxation, regulatory reform, and coordinating global corporate operations. This book presents cumulative learning experiences useful for business executives and public officials who must develop new foreign investment strategies, as well as scholars and students interested in the role of foreign investment in developing countries.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780899307794
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 08/21/1992
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

JOHN M. KLINE is Deputy Director of the Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Formerly Director of International Economic Policy at the National Association of Manufacturers, Dr. Kline is the author of International Codes and Multinational Business (Quorum, 1985) and State Government Influence in U.S. International Economic Policy, as well as numerous scholarly articles. He has conducted studies for the UN Centre on Transnational Corporations and the Inter-American Development Bank and is a member of the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on International Investment.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
History: Chile and the MNCs
Key Restructuring Decisions of the 1980s
Minerals and Energy
Nontraditional Exports
Financial Services
General Industry
Assessing the Key Strategic Issues
Conclusion
Appendix: Research Methodology
Selected Bibliography
Index

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