Multinational Joint Ventures in Developing Countries (RLE International Business)


Book Description

This book examines how joint ventures work in practice. Drawing on extensive personal experience and using case study examples where appropriate the author analyses the various stages, discusses the problems of partner selection, implementation and control and points out the various benefits and pitfalls. He draws out the implications for improving practice and discusses how the experience of joint ventures affects the theory of the multinational enterprise.




Bibliography on Law and Developing Countries


Book Description

The citations listed in this bibliography were published between 1975 and mid-1993. Substantial legal developments have occurred since 1975 and the vast bulk of materials on the subject has been produced since that time. The citations are grouped under 53 different subject headings. Some subjects are further divided into subcategories. Audience: Lawyers, legal scholars, social scientists and civil servants involved in development issues.




Petroleum Company Operations and Agreements in the Developing Countries


Book Description

Originally published in 1984, this study focuses on petroleum agreements between non-OPEC LDCs with oil-importing LDCs and how issues such as high oil prices affect each country. The information presented in this study was drawn from interviews with petroleum officials in petroleum companies, petroleum ministries and unpublished documents such as contracts and focussing on case studies of countries such as Peru, Guatemala and Malaysia. This title will be of interest to students of environmental studies and economics.










How to Negotiate Anything with Anyone Anywhere Around the World


Book Description

The ups and downs of negotiating are challenging enough at home. Put yourself in another country - where the customs and conventions are often radically different - and you've got a recipe for awkwardness and confusion at best, disappointment and disaster at worst. That's why you need this new, expanded edition of How to Negotiate Anything With Anyone Anywhere Around the World. It will provide you with the savvy you need to negotiate with finesse and ease, no matter where you are.




A Guide to Oil Marginal Field Law


Book Description

This book offers unique insight regarding the Nigerian government oil marginal field farm-out exercise which raised international concern over its ability to be fair, justified, and legal whilst requiring a cautionary application to avoid driving away investors. It demonstrates the prudence in developing oil marginal fields alongside renewable energy to aid the development and gradual switch to renewable energy. It traces the authority behind natural resources development and foreign direct investment in resolutions and policy statements of the UN and OPEC. It discusses petroleum business arrangements and Nigerian oil marginal field regulations, and reviews Nigerian marginal field development. Concluding the legality of the government farm-out exercise was drawn from a combination of the United Nations resolutions on developing countries sovereignty over natural resources and declaratory statements of the OPEC on member countries making policy development to take charge of their natural resources.