Implementing Total Safety Management or Multinational Firms and the Theory of International Trade

Implementing Total Safety Management

Author: David L Goetsch

This book introduces the unique concept of Total Safety Management (TSM) for creating and maintaining a safe and healthy work environment. This can become a key element in an organization's formula for competitiveness. Using a step-by-step approach with examples and case studies throughout, the book provides a practical, how-to handbook that can be used as an annotated model for implementing TSM in any organization. It shows not only how organizations can create a work environment that is both safe and conducive to peak performance, but how a safe work environment becomes part of everybody's responsibility for creating and maintaining a strategy that will give an organization a sustainable competitive advantage. For anyone interested in Health & Safety Management, Occupational Safety, and Safety in the Workplace.

See also: Bootstraps and Biscuits or High Calcium Low Calorie Cookbook

Multinational Firms and the Theory of International Trade

Author: James R Markusen

Despite the great importance of multinational firms in international economics, theoretical and empirical research on these firms has generally been conducted separately from that on international trade. In this book, James Markusen provides a comprehensive integration of the two fields. Drawing on twenty years of research, he focuses on the interaction of scale economies, trade costs, factor endowments, and imperfect competition. He analyzes decisions about whether to build or acquire a foreign plant separately from decisions about where to raise the financing.

Markusen begins with the simplest possible partial equilibrium models and works systematically toward a full-fledged general equilibrium model with both horizontal and vertical foreign direct investment. He offers empirical tests of hypotheses derived from the theoretical models. The notation is unified throughout, distinctions between models are explained with thoroughly explained derivations, and numerous graphs support the analysis.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
	Notation
I	Technology, Costs, and Market Structure	1
1	Statistics, Stylized Facts, and Basic Concepts	3
2	A Partial-Equilibrium, Single-Firm Model of Plant Location	21
3	International Duopoly with Endogenous Market Structures	39
4	Incumbency, Preemption, and Persistence	61
5	A General-Equilibrium Oligopoly Model of Horizontal Multinationals	77
6	A General-Equilibrium Monopolistic-Competition Model of Horizontal Multinationals	105
7	The Knowledge-Capital Model	127
8	Extensions to the Knowledge-Capital Model: Trade versus Affiliate Production, Factor-Price Effects, and Welfare Effects of Trade and Investment Liberalization	153
9	Traded Intermediate Inputs and Vertical Multinationals	189
II	Empirical Estimation and Testing	215
10	Estimating the Knowledge-Capital Model	217
11	Production for Export versus Local Sale	241
12	Discriminating among Alternative Models of the Multinational	263
III	Internalization	285
13	A Reputation Model of Internalization	287
14	A Learning Model of Internalization, with Applications to Contract and Intellectual-Property-Rights Enforcement	307
15	An Asymmetric-Information Model of Internalization	323
	Technical Appendices	343
	Notes	409
	References	419
	Index	429