... Licensed re-use rights only FDI FTA BIT Cumulative effect F14 F21 C55 With the increasing importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) in economic development and growth, the amount of FDI worldwide has continuously increased. FDI flows have steadily increased except for two...

... Association Licensed re-use rights only FDI SMEs Trade Global value chains Asia and the Pacific ESCAP F13 F21 L14 An effective development strategy will require policy approaches to facilitate dynamic insertion of local firms into GVCs, in particular small- and medium-sized...

... embeddedness F21 F23 L21 L22 M16 In contrast, companies that enter China for the purpose of cost reduction fulfill a role as an export manufacturing base, from which products are made with low cost within the production network of the HQ along with factories in Korea, for the purpose...

... Licensed re-use rights only M&A Greenfield Comparative advantage Firm heterogeneity F21 F23 F12 A multinational enterprise’s (MNE) decision on the selection of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) or greenfield is one of the prolific areas that has produced a number of research...