A Reiview and Assessment of Theories of the Multinational Companies (MNCs) and Foreign Direct Investment $(FDI)^+$

Uluslararası İşletmecilik alanının Uluslararası İktisat disiplininden ayrılmasından bu yana işletmecilikle ilgili diğer disiplinlerden de yararlanılarak Uluslararası İşletmecilik ile ilgili çeşitli teorik perspektifler geliştirilmiştir. Bu makalede incelenen Çokuluslu Şirketler ve Doğrudan Yabancı Yatırımlarla ilgili teoriler şunlardır: Piyasa Eksikliği (Yetersizliği) ve Oligopolistik Tepki Teorileri, Ürün Döngüsü (Product Cycle) Teorisi, İçselleştirme (Internalization) Teorisi, Eklemlemeli (Eclectic) Teori, Safhalar (Uppsala) Teorisi, Şebeke (Network) Teorisi. Bu teorilerin kökenleri ve temel argümanları ortaya konulmakla kalmayıp, bir dereceye kadar, Uluslararası İşletmecilik fenomenini açıklamaktaki güçlü ve zayıf oldukları yönlere de değinilmiştir.

Çokuluslu Şirketler ve Doğrudan Yabancı Yatırım Teorileri Üzerine Bir İnceleme ve Değerlendirme

Since the departure of the field of International Business (IB) from international economics orientation various theoretical perspectives of IB was built by taking into account other business related disciplines. In this article, we have concentrated on main theories of FDI and MNCs, namely, market imperfection and oligopolistic reaction theories, product cycle theory (PCT), internalization theory (IT), eclectic (OLI) theory, incremental (Uppsala) theory (UT), and network theory (NT). Not only we have presented origins and main arguments of these theories but also we have, to some extend, evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of them.

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