Stephen J Kobrin
Biographic Data
| ID | 2496604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen J Kobrin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen J |
| FAMILY NAME | Kobrin |
| SIGNATURE | KOBRIN S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 312 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in a Global Perspective, by Colin J. Bennett and Charles D. Raab
On any given day, someone could have his picture snapped by a security camera linked to face recognition software, grocery purchases recorded when he presents a supermarket's bonus card to get a di
Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation: A Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment
Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation: A Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment. By Nathan M. Jensen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 224p. $35.00. The dramatic increase in flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) during the last two decades of the twentieth century has been accompanied by an extensive literature dealing with the impact of multinational corporations (MNCs) on issues such as economic growth, poverty …
Safe harbours are hard to find: The trans-Atlantic data privacy dispute, territorial jurisdiction and global governance
The trans-Atlantic dispute over application of the European Union's Data Directive (1995) is discussed as a case study of an emerging geographic incongruity between the reach and domain of the territorially-defined Westphalian state and the deep and dense network of economic relations. The article reviews significant EU-US differences about the meaning of privacy and the means to protect it, the history of attempts to apply its provisions to info…
International Differences in Information Privacy Concerns: A Global Survey of Consumers
We examine three possible explanations for differences in Internet privacy concerns revealed by national regulation: (1) These differences reflect and are related to differences in cultural values described by other research; (2) these differences reflect differences in Internet experience; or (3) they reflect differences in the desires of political institutions without reflecting underlying differences in privacy preferences. Using a sample of I…
The MAI and the Clash of Globalizations
T he Preamble Collaborative is hardly a household name; it is a small, relatively new, Washington-based nongovernmental organization (NGO) employing three full-time researchers. Nonetheless, its stated mission of promoting vigorous public debate about economic problems was accomplished with a vengeance when it came to the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). The primary objective of the governments negotiating the MAX was to facilitate int…
Electronic Cash and the End of National Markets
Testing the bargaining hypothesis in the manufacturing sector in developing countries
The bargaining power model of HC–MNC (host country–multinational corporation) interaction conceives of economic nationalism in terms of rational self-interest and assumes both inherent conflict and convergent objectives. In extractive industries, there is strong evidence that outcomes are a function of relative bargaining power and that as power shifts to developing HCs over time, the bargain obsolesces. A cross-national study of the bargaining m…
Diffusion as an Explanation of Oil Nationalization: Or the Domino Effect Rides Again
Following Rogers, diffusion is defined as a process of social communication involving information flows under uncertainty. The international petroleum industry is a complex social system with considerable uncertainty about existing structural conditions, particularly from the point of view of a developing country. The “demonstration effect” of oil production nationalizations has been an important source of information about the balance of country…
Expropriation as an Attempt to Control Foreign Firms in LDCs: Trends from 1960 to 1979
Expropriations in 79 LDCs are analyzed from 1960 to 1979, with a concentration of takeovers noted in the early 1970s and a significant decline thereafter. Four hypotheses are suggested to explain this pattern. First, nationalization of sectors such as oil, mining and utilities, where foreign ownership, per se, is incompatible with economic control or national security, was virtually complete by 1975. Second, as time since independence passed, LDC…
Political Assessment in International Firms: The Role of Nontraditional Specialists in Business Organizations
Research Article| July 01 1981 Political Assessment in International Firms: The Role of Nontraditional Specialists in Business Organizations Stephen J. Kobrin Stephen J. Kobrin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1981) 3 (3): 87–94. https://doi.org/10.2307/3377736 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter Linked…
Foreign enterprise and forced divestment in LDCs
The local subsidiary of a multinational corporation is both a national firm incorporated under host country law and a sub-unit of a centrally optimizing global system. This duality, which is inherent in the structure of foreign direct investment, produces potential benefits—such as resource transfers and access to markets—as well as costs—in terms of constraints on national economic control. Host governments utilize a variety of policies to “...i…
Foreign Direct Investment, Industrialization, and Social Change
Indicators of the changes in social structure which result from the industrialization of traditional societies are developed via factor analysis of data from 59 developing countries. Multiple regression is then used to investigate the relationship between industrialization, social change, and the relative economic importance of foreign direct investment. The relationship is found to be interactive; foreign direct investment intensifies the pressu…
Testing the bargaining hypothesis in the manufacturing sector in developing countries
The bargaining power model of HC–MNC (host country–multinational corporation) interaction conceives of economic nationalism in terms of rational self-interest and assumes both inherent conflict and convergent objectives. In extractive industries, there is strong evidence that outcomes are a function of relative bargaining power and that as power shifts to developing HCs over time, the bargain obsolesces. A cross-national study of the bargaining m…
Expropriation as an Attempt to Control Foreign Firms in LDCs: Trends from 1960 to 1979
Expropriations in 79 LDCs are analyzed from 1960 to 1979, with a concentration of takeovers noted in the early 1970s and a significant decline thereafter. Four hypotheses are suggested to explain this pattern. First, nationalization of sectors such as oil, mining and utilities, where foreign ownership, per se, is incompatible with economic control or national security, was virtually complete by 1975. Second, as time since independence passed, LDC…
Foreign enterprise and forced divestment in LDCs
The local subsidiary of a multinational corporation is both a national firm incorporated under host country law and a sub-unit of a centrally optimizing global system. This duality, which is inherent in the structure of foreign direct investment, produces potential benefits—such as resource transfers and access to markets—as well as costs—in terms of constraints on national economic control. Host governments utilize a variety of policies to “...i…
The MAI and the Clash of Globalizations
T he Preamble Collaborative is hardly a household name; it is a small, relatively new, Washington-based nongovernmental organization (NGO) employing three full-time researchers. Nonetheless, its stated mission of promoting vigorous public debate about economic problems was accomplished with a vengeance when it came to the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). The primary objective of the governments negotiating the MAX was to facilitate int…
Diffusion as an Explanation of Oil Nationalization: Or the Domino Effect Rides Again
Following Rogers, diffusion is defined as a process of social communication involving information flows under uncertainty. The international petroleum industry is a complex social system with considerable uncertainty about existing structural conditions, particularly from the point of view of a developing country. The “demonstration effect” of oil production nationalizations has been an important source of information about the balance of country…
Electronic Cash and the End of National Markets
International Differences in Information Privacy Concerns: A Global Survey of Consumers
We examine three possible explanations for differences in Internet privacy concerns revealed by national regulation: (1) These differences reflect and are related to differences in cultural values described by other research; (2) these differences reflect differences in Internet experience; or (3) they reflect differences in the desires of political institutions without reflecting underlying differences in privacy preferences. Using a sample of I…
Safe harbours are hard to find: The trans-Atlantic data privacy dispute, territorial jurisdiction and global governance
The trans-Atlantic dispute over application of the European Union's Data Directive (1995) is discussed as a case study of an emerging geographic incongruity between the reach and domain of the territorially-defined Westphalian state and the deep and dense network of economic relations. The article reviews significant EU-US differences about the meaning of privacy and the means to protect it, the history of attempts to apply its provisions to info…
Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation: A Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment
Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation: A Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment. By Nathan M. Jensen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 224p. $35.00. The dramatic increase in flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) during the last two decades of the twentieth century has been accompanied by an extensive literature dealing with the impact of multinational corporations (MNCs) on issues such as economic growth, poverty …
Foreign Direct Investment, Industrialization, and Social Change
Indicators of the changes in social structure which result from the industrialization of traditional societies are developed via factor analysis of data from 59 developing countries. Multiple regression is then used to investigate the relationship between industrialization, social change, and the relative economic importance of foreign direct investment. The relationship is found to be interactive; foreign direct investment intensifies the pressu…
Foreign enterprise and forced divestment in LDCs
The local subsidiary of a multinational corporation is both a national firm incorporated under host country law and a sub-unit of a centrally optimizing global system. This duality, which is inherent in the structure of foreign direct investment, produces potential benefits—such as resource transfers and access to markets—as well as costs—in terms of constraints on national economic control. Host governments utilize a variety of policies to “...i…
Political Assessment in International Firms: The Role of Nontraditional Specialists in Business Organizations
Research Article| July 01 1981 Political Assessment in International Firms: The Role of Nontraditional Specialists in Business Organizations Stephen J. Kobrin Stephen J. Kobrin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1981) 3 (3): 87–94. https://doi.org/10.2307/3377736 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter Linked…
Expropriation as an Attempt to Control Foreign Firms in LDCs: Trends from 1960 to 1979
Expropriations in 79 LDCs are analyzed from 1960 to 1979, with a concentration of takeovers noted in the early 1970s and a significant decline thereafter. Four hypotheses are suggested to explain this pattern. First, nationalization of sectors such as oil, mining and utilities, where foreign ownership, per se, is incompatible with economic control or national security, was virtually complete by 1975. Second, as time since independence passed, LDC…
Diffusion as an Explanation of Oil Nationalization: Or the Domino Effect Rides Again
Following Rogers, diffusion is defined as a process of social communication involving information flows under uncertainty. The international petroleum industry is a complex social system with considerable uncertainty about existing structural conditions, particularly from the point of view of a developing country. The “demonstration effect” of oil production nationalizations has been an important source of information about the balance of country…
Testing the bargaining hypothesis in the manufacturing sector in developing countries
The bargaining power model of HC–MNC (host country–multinational corporation) interaction conceives of economic nationalism in terms of rational self-interest and assumes both inherent conflict and convergent objectives. In extractive industries, there is strong evidence that outcomes are a function of relative bargaining power and that as power shifts to developing HCs over time, the bargain obsolesces. A cross-national study of the bargaining m…
Electronic Cash and the End of National Markets
The MAI and the Clash of Globalizations
T he Preamble Collaborative is hardly a household name; it is a small, relatively new, Washington-based nongovernmental organization (NGO) employing three full-time researchers. Nonetheless, its stated mission of promoting vigorous public debate about economic problems was accomplished with a vengeance when it came to the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). The primary objective of the governments negotiating the MAX was to facilitate int…
Safe harbours are hard to find: The trans-Atlantic data privacy dispute, territorial jurisdiction and global governance
The trans-Atlantic dispute over application of the European Union's Data Directive (1995) is discussed as a case study of an emerging geographic incongruity between the reach and domain of the territorially-defined Westphalian state and the deep and dense network of economic relations. The article reviews significant EU-US differences about the meaning of privacy and the means to protect it, the history of attempts to apply its provisions to info…
International Differences in Information Privacy Concerns: A Global Survey of Consumers
We examine three possible explanations for differences in Internet privacy concerns revealed by national regulation: (1) These differences reflect and are related to differences in cultural values described by other research; (2) these differences reflect differences in Internet experience; or (3) they reflect differences in the desires of political institutions without reflecting underlying differences in privacy preferences. Using a sample of I…
Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation: A Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment
Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation: A Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment. By Nathan M. Jensen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 224p. $35.00. The dramatic increase in flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) during the last two decades of the twentieth century has been accompanied by an extensive literature dealing with the impact of multinational corporations (MNCs) on issues such as economic growth, poverty …
The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in a Global Perspective, by Colin J. Bennett and Charles D. Raab
On any given day, someone could have his picture snapped by a security camera linked to face recognition software, grocery purchases recorded when he presents a supermarket's bonus card to get a di
Political science (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · International trade (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Economic system (4 works) · Foreign direct investment (4 works) · International Business and FDI (4 works)