Transaction Costs & Trade Between Multinational Corporations (RLE International Business)

Until this book was published little had appeared on the matter of the organization of production in oil gathering. This book:_x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Describes the global offshore oil supply industry and its features on one of the world’s major offshore oil services bases_x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Draws on the theory of the multinational corporation to explain why buyers and sellers should have internationalized themselves into a symbiotic relationship_x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Discusses the preference of the oil companies for vertical disintegration_x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Explains the transaction cost paradigm_x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Integrates the largely American literature on the transaction cost paradigm with the literature on the multinational corporation (which is largely British). _x005F_x000D_