The eclectic paradigm as an envelope for economic and business theories of MNE activity

John H. Dunning

International Business Review, 2000, vol. 9, issue 2, 163-190

Abstract: This paper updates some of the author's thinking on the eclectic paradigm of international production, and relates it to a number of mainstream, but context-specific economic and business theories. It suggests that by dynamizing the paradigm, and widening it to embrace asset-augmenting foreign direct investment and MNE, activity it may still claim to be the dominant paradigm explaining the extent and pattern of the foreign value added activities of firms in a globalizing, knowledge intensive and alliance based market economy.

Keywords: Eclectic; paradigm; Foreign; direct; investment; Multinational; enterprise (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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