Download or read book Foreign Direct Investment by Smaller UK Firms: The Success and Failure of First-Time Investors Abroad written by Peter J. Buckley and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-06-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the biggest risks any company can take is the setting-up of an overseas production subsidiary. The production subsidiary requires the greatest capital with the possibility of the total investment being lost should the venture fall. It is to reduce that risk that this book has been written.