Table of Contents

Part I: Frameworks
1: Concepts
2: Multinationals and Globalization
Part II: Exploiting Opportunities
3: Natural Resources
4: Manufacturing
5: Services
Part III: Building Organizations
6: Crossing Borders
7: Managing Multinationals
Part IV: External Environment
8: Public Policy
Part V: Outcomes
9: Multinationals and Home Economies
10: Engines of Growth?
11: Conclusions
Appendices
Appendix I: The world's top fifty non-financial multinationals, ranked by foreign assets, 2001
Appendix 2: Glossary
Appendix 3: Time Line

About the Author

Geoffrey Jones is Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. He previously taught at the universities of Cambridge and Reading, and at the London School of Economics, in the U.K. He is the author and editor of many books and articles on the history of international business, including British Multinational Banking 1830-1990 (OUP 1993) and Merchants to Multinationals (OUP 2000). He is a former President of both
the European Business History Association and the Business History Conference of the United States, is co-editor of the journal Business History Review, and editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Business
History.

Reviews

Jones's book is very useful, both as an introduction to the business scholarship on multinationals and as a very accessible text...I would declare it a great success. Journal of World History It is clear that this is a valuable, student-friendly book at a number of levels... All in all, well worth the asking price. Bernard J Foley, Economic History Review The book's strengths...are manifold...Multinaltionals provides evidence of scholarship that is bright, confident, coherent, and up to date.