Thomas Andersson

Trading with the Environment: Ecology, economics, institutions and policy

Should there be firmer restrictions on trade, with more policies aimed at protecting its environmental impacts, or would the environment benefit most from unrestricted free trade? Do importing countries have a responsibility only to their local ecosystems, or are they also responsible for environmen...

Foreign Direct Investment in Competing Host Countries: A Study of Taxation and Nationalization

Managing Trade Relations in the New World Economy

Managing Trade Relations in the New World Economy analyses the implications of the new world economy for global trade. Thomas Andersson explores how manufactured exports have increased exponentially while the western economies have accrued massive current account deficits. Warning against the danger...

Multinational Investment in Developing Countries: A Study of Taxation and Nationalization

This book explores the struggle for gains from direct investment between multinationals and developing countries. It discusses which policies work best in influencing the behaviour of MNEs and how developing countries compete with one another for multinational investment. It argues that the tax regi...

Korea and the Knowledge-based Economy: Making the Transition

As an input to Korea's efforts to revise the country's development strategy, the OECD and the World Bank have prepared a joint review of the challenges confronting Korea in its transition to a knowledge-based economy. The report proposes a four-pronged framework which will empower Korea to effective...

Knowledge-Driven Entrepreneurship: The Key to Social and Economic Transformation (Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management)

The Springer book series Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management was launched in March 2008 as a forum and intellectual, scholarly “podium” for global/local, transdisciplinary, transsectoral, public–private, and leading/“bleeding” -edge ideas, theories, and perspectives on these topics. The...

Knowledge-Driven Entrepreneurship: The Key to Social and Economic Transformation (Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management)

The Springer book series Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management was launched in March 2008 as a forum and intellectual, scholarly “podium” for global/local, transdisciplinary, transsectoral, public–private, and leading/“bleeding” -edge ideas, theories, and perspectives on these topics. The...

The Real Issues of the Middle East and the Arab Spring: Addressing Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management)

The wave of protests and populist uprisings in the Middle East has heightened the focus on a volatile region. But the emphasis on political issues has obscured underlying issues concerning education, infrastructure, research, innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainable economic and social developme...