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Transnational Corporations from Emerging Economies and South-South FDI

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The Rise of Technological Power in the South

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The rise of transnational corporations (TNCs) from developing and transition economies has accelerated in recent years. The presence of such companies on the world stage was documented several decades ago, by such distinguished scholars as Louis Wells (1977; 1983) and Sanjaya Lall (1983). The situation in the 1970s and 1980s differs, however, in a number of ways from that of the present time. The scale of the phenomenon is today much larger and the geographical composition of flows and stocks is different as are the drivers and determinants.

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  1. Torbjörn Fredriksson
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Oxford, UK

    Xiaolan Fu (Director of the Sanjaya Lall Programme for Technology and Management for Development, and Fellow of Green-Templeton College) (Director of the Sanjaya Lall Programme for Technology and Management for Development, and Fellow of Green-Templeton College)

  2. United Nations University-Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology, The Netherlands

    Luc Soete (Director of UNU-MERIT) (Director of UNU-MERIT)

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Fredriksson, T. (2010). Transnational Corporations from Emerging Economies and South-South FDI. In: Fu, X., Soete, L. (eds) The Rise of Technological Power in the South. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230276123_14

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