EADI ‘TNCs and Development’ Working Group

Call for papers for the publication of book

July 2008

Proposed tittle of the book: The impact of multinationals on indigenous firms in developing countries and transition countries

Project’s background: Activities of the EADI ‘Transnationals and development’ working group

Editors: Michael W. Hansen (Associate Professor in Business Studies at the Copenhagen Business School) and Eric Rugraff (Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Strasbourg)

Publishing house: Amsterdam University Press

Project : The book analysis the impact of multinationals on local firms in developing countries and transition countries and the policy and institutional environments that shape these impacts. The value added of the book in relation to extant literature on multinationals’ impacts in developing countries and transition countries is threefold:

- The book is highly interdisciplinary, encompassing and integrating macro and micro economic, business management and strategy, and learning and network approaches to multinationals’ impacts on local firms;

- The book offers an unique platform for comparative analysis by consolidating empirical material from both developing countries (Asia, Latin America and Africa) and Transition economies (Eastern Europe, FSU, Asia);

- The book combines analysis of industries and firms with analysis of the related industrial policies and FDI-policies.

CONTENT:

The book is divided in three parts and consists of app. 12 chapters of 20-25 pages (7,000 to 10,000 words).

Part 1. Introduction: multinationals’ impacts on indigenous firms in developing countries and transition countries (1 or 2 chapters)

This first part will be written by M.W. Hansen and E. Rugraff. This part will focus on:

- Recent technological, political and economic developments that have changed the economics of impacts on indigenous firms, e.g. the concentration of the multinationals on their core competencies and externalization of the activities (process of deverticalization); the spatial concentration of the world activities (clusters); the emergence of multinationals coming from developing (and transition) countries; the growing role played by services in the world economy, etc.

- The theory of impacts in economics (E. Rugraff) and in business studies (M. Hansen): What do the main theories tell us about the impact of multinationals on indigenous firms?

- The main conclusions of the empirical literature on impacts of multinationals on indigenous firms;

- A summary of the main contributions of the book.

Part 2. Sectoral perspectives on multinationals’ impacts on local firms and industries (5-6 chapters)

Articles in this part will assess implication of multinationals’ activity for firms and industries in developing countries and transition countries within specific industries and sectors

Part 3. Industrial policy perspective (4-5 chapters)

Articles in this part will describe and analyze industrial policies and/or FDI policies of developing and transition countries aiming at developing and sustaining spillovers of multinationals on indigenous firms (evolution in time of the policy, specificity of the policy, instruments, etc.) and possibly evaluate the efficiency of the various policy instruments.

FORMAT OF CONTRIBUTION

Articles must preferably contain :

- An introduction presenting the problem/theme of the article;

- A literature review and possible analytical framework;

- An account of the methodology of the study;

- An assessment of impacts of multinationals on indigenous firms;

- A discussion of policy and research implications.

DEADLINES

- 15 September 2008: Submitting abstracts: Please send an abstract to eric.rugraff@urs.u-strasbg.fr and mwh.ikl@cbs.dk by September the 15^th the latest. The abstract should describe the content of the article, and include an account of the theoretical as well as empirical contribution of the article. Please also include a brief outline of the article

- 15 December: Final outline: Michael Hansen and Eric Rugraff will send out final outline of the book and a first draft of Part 1

- 15 April : First draft of all the chapters

- 15 April-30 Mai : Internal reviewing process

- End June 2009: Final discussion will take place at the Working Group session in Budapest

July 2009: Submitting manuscript