Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Ford motor company's multidomestic strategy; Ford of Canada: confluence of interest in a liberal approach to automotive development; Ford of Mexico: confronting a nationalistic approach to industrialization; The 1970s: an era of structural constraints and narrowed strategic options; Ford's survival strategy; Ford's global strategy; Successful bargaining in a situation of increasing interdependence; Export dynamism: reconciling the Mexican and the US Big Three's interests
A North American system of productionConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Index
Summary
This is an analysis of how the global strategies of Multi-national Enterprises (MNE's) affect the power relationship between MNE's and states in the context of increasing trans-national economic integration
