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- Title
LIMITED SEARCH AND THE TECHNOLOGY CHOICES OF MULTINATIONAL FIRMS IN BRAZIL.
- Authors
Morley, Samuel A.; Smith, Gordon W.
- Abstract
This article discusses a study which investigated whether the failure of multinationals in Brazil to adapt production techniques to labor abundance arises from limited factor substitutability or from a permissive environment. Production planners in the multinationals we studied rationalized their decisions in terms of a limited range of engineering-efficient technologies. This paper investigates whether the failure of multinationals to adapt their production techniques more fully to labor abundance arises from truly limited factor substitutability or from a permissive environment, which allows multinational corporations to produce profitably without searching extensively for technological alternatives.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; INTERNATIONAL business enterprises; PRODUCTION (Economic theory); LABOR; WORK environment; TECHNOLOGY; ENGINEERING
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1977, Vol 91, Issue 2, p263
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1885417