Foreign Direct Investment by Smaller UK Firms: The Success and Failure of First-Time Investors Abroad

Peter Buckley; Gerald D.  Newbould; Jane C. Thurwell

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-08231-5

Foreign Direct Investment by Smaller UK Firms: The Success and Failure of First-Time Investors Abroad

Peter Buckley, Gerald D. Newbould, Jane C. Thurwell

PMO Comparative & International Business

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Abstract

One of the biggest risks any company can take is the setting-up of an overseas production subsidiary. The production subsidiary requires the greatest capital with the possibility of the total investment being lost should the venture fall. It is to reduce that risk that this book has been written.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan Ltd
Number of pages	247
ISBN (Electronic)	9781349082315
ISBN (Print)	9781349082339
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08231-5
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 1988

Keywords

capital
controlling
foreign direct investment
investment
planning
production
regulation
success
investments and securities

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