TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rasiah,Rajah
AU  - Gachino,Geoffrey G.
ED  - Edward Elgar Publishing.
TI  - Foreign firms, technological capabilities and economic performance: evidence from Africa, Asia and Latin America 
SN  - 9781845423551 (e-book)
AV  - HF4055 .R37 2004
U1  - 338.91 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cheltenham, U.K., Northampton, Mass.
PB  - Edward Elgar
KW  - Business enterprises, Foreign
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Technology transfer
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-217) and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Productivity, export and technological differences in Kenya -- 3. Technology, local sourcing and economic performance in South Africa -- 4. Technology and economic performance in Uganda -- 5. Technological intensity and export incidence in Indonesia -- 6. Economic performance, local sourcing and technological intensities in Malaysia -- 7. Productivity, export, local sourcing and technology in Brazil -- 8. Intel-driven enterprise linkages in Costa Rica
N2  - This book employs novel techniques to compare technological capabilities and economic performance in seven countries at varying stages of industrial development: Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, South Africa and Uganda. The author uses a methodology drawn from the technology capability framework, but extensively adapts and simplifies it to extract common cross-industry parameters for statistical analysis. He employs the framework to compare the technological, local sourcing and performance dynamics of foreign and local firms in a variety of industries
UR  - https://www.elgaronline.com/view/1843769867.xml
ER  -