Research reports on the role of multinational enterprise in South East Asia and Pacific, partic. The role of Australia - examines motivations for foreign investment and collaboration of host country ruling-elite interest groups; includes case studies of export processing zones in China, Hong Kong and the Philippines, Malaysian-Australian joint ventures, neocolonialism in Papua New Guinea and Thailand, the petroleum industry, land reform, agribusiness, and the Pacific fishing industry. References, statistical tables.

Presents an institutional approach which describes and explains the local and regional organization of 17 European transnational corporations in Southeast Asian markets in relation to their worldwide organization. The book focuses on the period from 1984 to 1991.