Rival States, Rival Firms: Competition for World Market Shares

by John M. Stopford, Susan Strange, John S. Henley

Book Overview

In this theoretically original work, two distinguished authors explore the mutual interdependence of states and firms throughout the world. They show how global structural changes - in finance, technology, knowledge and politics - often impel governments to seek the help and cooperation of managers of multinational enterprises. Yet, as Professors Stopford and Strange demonstrate, this is constrained by each country's economic resources, its social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521423864
• ISBN13: 9780521423861
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Bargains between states and firms

In this book, Susan Strange (with John Stopford)develops the relational power model that she introduces in "States and Markets". The book introduces the firm as a player in diplomacy and argues that transnational corporation can exercise the type of relational power that the state exercises. The book is a foundation to Strange's "The Retreat of the State" and a read of all three books, pluse Roger Tooze's anthology of Strange's work "States and Authorities" provides an excellent introduction to International Political Economy as seen from a distinctly European perspective and with the clarity (and quirkiness) provided by the late Susan Strange.