...Sergio Mariotti Purpose After decades of hypergrowth, since the 2008 global financial crisis there has been a deceleration of globalization and a partial jamming of its main engines (trade and foreign direct investment [FDI]). This study aims to critically reflect on the current phase, labeling...

...Francisca Da Gama; Kim Bui Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for evaluating the relationship between China and Peru, drawing on dependency theory, against the backdrop of China’s explicit policies towards foreign direct investment. It seeks to transcend traditional...

...Grazia Ietto-Gillies Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of major structural changes on the conceptualization of the transnational corporation (TNC) based on foreign direct investment (FDI) and on indicators of transnationality. Design/methodology/approach Analysis...

... development goals (United Nations, 2016). It is a major challenge in IB as it increases the cost and risks of doing business and discourages foreign direct investment (FDI) (Cuervo-Cazurra, 2006 ; Doh et al., 2003). Owing to its impact on IB, corruption has been studied extensively to confirm its...

... studies (Hutzschenreuter et al., 2020). © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Subnational institutions India Within-country inequality Foreign direct investment Cross-border acquisitions Institution-based view Indian MNEs...

... research has pointed more strongly towards a role of globalisation per se (Autor et al., 2015). Although international trade has received particular attention, a number of studies have also considered the role of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and foreign direct investment (FDI) (Figini...

...-Kahindi, 2017), and conditions of work (Kamoche and Siebers, 2015). China Foreign direct investment Kenya Legitimacy Moral legitimacy Pragmatic legitimacy Foreign business activity Cognitive legitimacy Stakeholders The People’s Republic of China (“China”) is just the most recent of many...

...Brent Burmester; Joanna Scott-Kennel Purpose The purpose of this paper is to argue for inclusion of evasive foreign direct investment (FDI) into search-based motivation typologies in international business. Design/methodology/approach Critically reassessing academic literature and using...

... theory, foreign direct investment (FDI) and location choices. Second, we introduce our hypotheses. The third section discusses our modeling approach, the data used for the study, and the empirical results. Finally, the paper concludes with a summary and discussion of our findings. The role...

... of corruption) on Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa. Design/methodology/approach This study uses regression analysis on panel data across 22 countries for the period 2008-2014. Findings Natural resources did not play a significant role in attracting Chinese investments, but market size...

...) tax policy and tax revenues in countries where MNEs operate. The paper also has implications for industrial policy based on attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Social implications The study has implications not only for the equitable distribution of corporate tax payments and income...

... Innovation Organizational culture Management Cross-cultural Foreign direct investment Chinese workers are frequently represented in the popular press and academic scholarship as being diligent but less creative than Europeans and Americans (Ng, 2001 ; Kim, 2004). Management scholars (Martinsons...

... IB literature pays little attention to a key insight of the early IB literature, namely, that foreign direct investment (FDI) often is driven by strategic interaction among MNCs in oligopolistic industries. Instead, the contemporary IB literature focuses on the FDI as a way to reduce transaction...

... prescriptions for host governments. My own research at this time looked at industrial co-operation agreements between firms in Eastern Europe and Western partners, which were also part of the NIDL phenomenon (Radice, 1978, 1981). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Foreign direct investment...

...Lamia Ben Hamida Purpose The purpose of this paper is two‐fold: to discuss the key factors determining foreign direct investment (FDI) intra‐industry spillovers and to examine the presence and the extent of these spillovers in Switzerland, by testing them for the services/construction industry...

... would date very quickly. By including the annually published World Investment Report among the list of indicative reading Ietto‐Gillies directs her readers to the latest data on TNCs and FDI. Through its focus on transnational corporation and foreign direct investment this book takes...