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This paper first sets out the main features of the eclectic theory of international production and then seeks to evaluate its significance of ownership- and location- specific variables in explaining the industrial pattern and geographical distribution of the sales of U.S. affiliates in fourteen manufacturing industries in seven countries in 1970.
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*John H. Dunning is Professor of International Investment and Business Studies at the University of Reading. He has been working in the field of international investment and the multinational enterprise since the mid 1950s and has published several books and numerous articles on the subject.
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Dunning, J. Toward an Eclectic Theory of International Production: Some Empirical Tests. J Int Bus Stud 11, 9–31 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490593
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