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The governments of the industrialized countries are reviewing their policies regarding direct foreign investments in the less developed countries by multi national firms. In the industrialized countries national unions are concerned with job loss, domestic businessmen are concerned with competition from less developed countries, and government officials are concerned with relative declines in technological strengths.
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Hynes, C.V., Foltz, J. (2016). Some Aspects of the Controversy Over Direct Foreign Investments by Multinational Corporations in the Less Developed Countries. In: Gitlow, H.S., Wheatley, E.W. (eds) Proceedings of the 1979 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16934-7_23
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