...Shilin Yuan; Haiyang Chen; Wei Zhang Purpose This paper aims to examine the impact of host country corruption on foreign direct investment (FDI) from China to developing countries in Africa. With the opposing arguments that corruption is detrimental to or instrumental in FDI and mixed empirical...

... and subsidiary companies. Unlike other forms of foreign direct investment (FDI), such as efficiency, resource and market-seeking, returns from knowledge-seeking acquisitions are slower to materialize as successful integration of value-creating assets is more difficult. Considering their relatively limited...