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Accepting the danger that a simplified summary may enhance some factors at the expense of others, this chapter simply lists those factors from preceding chapters which appear to be part of a successful overseas production subsidiary. The listing is provided so as to enable managers to compare quickly their own subsidiaries, or their own plans, with the profile of the successful subsidiary built up from this report. The list should not be taken separately from the comments made in the body of the report. A successful overseas production subsidiary appears to be:
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© 1988 Peter J. Buckley, Gerald D. Newbould and Jane Thurwell
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Buckley, P.J., Newbould, G.D., Thurwell, J.C. (1988). Profile of a successful production subsidiary. In: Foreign Direct Investment by Smaller UK Firms: The Success and Failure of First-Time Investors Abroad. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08231-5_10
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