Foreign Direct Investment by Smaller UK Firms: The Success and Failure of First-Time Investors Abroad

One of the biggest risks any company can take is the setting-up of an overseas production subsidiary. The production subsidiary requires the greatest capital with the possibility of the total investment being lost should the venture fall. It is to reduce that risk that this book has been written.

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Foreign Direct Investment by Smaller European Firms - Going International - The Firms in the Sample - The Success of Overseas Production Subsidiaries - The Preliminary Stages - The Planning Stages - The Investing Stages - Controlling the Subsidiary - Lessons and Problems - Overseas Sales Subsidiaries - Profile of a Successful Production Subsidiary - Appendices - Regulations, Policies and Inducements, by Country - UK Exchange Control Policy - Questionnaire - Index