...João Bento; Miguel Torres Purpose This paper aims to clarify the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI), democracy and carbon intensity. This study examines the influence of types of democracy on the relationship between inward FDI and carbon intensity. For this purpose, it uses five...

... investment (FDI) may, in fact, increase in the host country not despite, but because of, war, i.e. one that lends credence to the idea that, in the USA, “defense [has] become one of constant preparation for future wars and foreign interventions rather than an exercise in response to one-off threats...

...Laura Fernàndez-Méndez; Esteban García-Canal; Raquel García-García Purpose This paper aims to investigate whether Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can be driven by the creative compliance knowledge that firms gather in their home country through litigations with the government. Design...

... a generally positive impact on growth and a generally negative impact on income and wealth equality. The author then details some of the potential contributions MNEs can make to attenuate the negative relationship of foreign direct investment (FDI) on equality, concluding that governments and their policies...

...João Paulo Cerdeira Bento; António Moreira Purpose This paper aims to examine how foreign direct investment (FDI) and firm-specific advantages (FSAs) of US multinational enterprises (MNEs) majority-owned subsidiaries affect environmental pollution in host countries. The research results contribute...

... investment (FDI) across the country. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyze the impact of homicides on FDI by source country into Mexican states from 2001 to 2015. They estimate fixed effect and dynamic panel models controlling for several determinants of FDI at the state level and the potential...

... in making location decisions. Design/methodology/approach Location choice data for foreign direct investment (FDI) at a sub-national level in China is used to test the role of locational ambidexterity. Findings We find that FDI generally prefers locations with high ambidexterity. Moreover...

... investment (FDI) flows in mediating and enhancing this relationship. Design/methodology/approach Following a generalized method of moments methodology, use is made of a new longitudinal index measuring the strength of enforcement-related aspects of patent systems. Findings Stronger levels of patent...

...Viatcheslav Avioutskii; Mouloud Tensaout Purpose While many studies have investigated the impact of institutional factors (i.e. financial risk factors) in the host country on inward foreign direct investment (FDI), fewer studies have researched on the locational aspects of FDI in relation...

.... In addition to L assets that derive from the non-firm sector, knowledge infrastructure also needs to include inward FDI. Foreign-owned affiliates engaged in knowledge-intensive activities generate spillovers that are in principle also L assets because they are potentially available to all firms in the same...

... for further development of a theory of firms’ internationalization behavior. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Hence, it is important to realize that motives per se do not provide a sufficient justification for either FDI, or any other form of business activity across borders...

... to draw on the reconciled FSA/CSA framework with Dunning's four motives to differentiate two types of FDI: traditional FDI and strategic asset-seeking FDI. Further, the paper draws on Verbeke's FSA/CSA recombination process model to analyze the differentiated value creation of traditional FDI...

... presence, that is, a company's accumulated foreign direct investment (FDI) in a given country prior to the focal investment. Design/methodology/approach This paper develops a theoretical framework postulating that the value of an additional FDI in a given host country decreases to the extent to which...

... of the English language in explaining bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI) data within the OECD is tested. In addition to English, all other common official languages within the OECD are also tested. Furthermore, the linguistic distance to English is used to test whether closeness of languages to English...

...: FDI; multinational enterprise; MNE; eclectic paradigm; OLI; ownership advantages. Introduction John Dunning first introduced his eclectic paradigm (or OLI model with O, L and I referring to Ownership, Location, and Internalization, respectively) in 1976 (Dunning 2001; Dunning and Lundan 2008a). He...

..., and policy‐making implications are discussed. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Financial crisis Emerging markets Argentine financial crisis Multinational companies Changes in resource commitments FDI Changes in investments VOLUME 17 NUMBER 2 What Causes Multinational Companies...