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Independent Research

As well as writing up some of the lecture notes, I have been researching into other areas of Understanding the Global Firm.

Ownership Advantages

• Dunning (2000) - The Eclectic paradigm as an envelope for economic and business theories of MNE activity
• Caves (1996) - MNE and economic analysis
• Dunning (1977) - Eclectic Paradigm

Internalisation

• Buckley and Casson (1995) - A Theory of International Operations
• Horaguchi et al. (1990) - Setting the Record Straight: Hymer, Internalisation Theory and Transaction Cost Economics
• Dunning and Rugman (1985) - The Influence of Hymer's Dissertation on the Theory of Foreign Direct Investment

Product Cycle Theory (PCM):

• Fox et al. (2005) - Positive comments on the PCM and the N-S divide
• Arrighi et al. (2003) - Negative comments on the PCM and the N-S divide
• Vernon (1979) - PCM Re-revisited
• Vernon (1966) - Product Cycle Model (PCM)

• See here for Past exam paper analysis