A Study On The Competitive Advantage Of American Multinational Corporations

With the speeding up of the pace of globalization, and the speedy flowing of huge amount of capital worldwide, more and more multinational corporations perform financing at several markets simultaneously; as a result, the driving force of multinational corporations to the economic development of states becomes ever increasing . America is a highly internationalized nation , with many universities and innovative companies of the first class. Its pace of technological innovation provides the multinational corporations with many opportunities for development. The development of American multinational corporations is always at the leading pace in the world . With enormous productive capacity, powerful technological advantage and high degree of multinationalization, the effect of these multinational corporations on American economy should not be underestimated; what's more, they also shed influence on other states. With"On the Competitive Advantage of American Multinational Corporations"as the title, this paper is divided into four chapters.Chapter one is devoted to the general survey of the relevant theories of the competitive advantages of multinational corporations. The analysis of the existing relevant theories is to find out the applicability of various theories to China's reality. These relevant theories mainly include theory of direct investment abroad and the strategic theory of multinational corporations. This paper starts with the monopoly advantage theory, inner optimization theory, theory of splitting the difference of international production and efforts have then been made to analyze the reasons for the competitive advantages of multinational corporations. The important role of the competitive advantages in the management of multinational corporations is also introduced . As to the strategic theory of multinational corporations, my discussion is centered mainly around the strategies for the maintaining of competitive advantages of multinational corporations . General...