It is generally known that the United States, a large country, has spawned business corporations that transcend international boundaries-"multinationals." What is not generally known is that many smaller countries are rapidly following suit-they too are opening and expanding international operations for their own local firms. This book is the first organized effort by scholars to deal with non-American international corporations as a general phenomenon. Initially presented at a colloquium devoted to the subject held at MIT in January 1976, these seven essays bring to light the relatively unpublicized international activities of firms originating in a number of geographically and economically diverse smaller countries.
