Foreign Direct Investment by Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises, the Impact of the Financial Crisis and Recession and Challenges Ahead

Foreign direct investment from emerging markets is an increasingly important phenomenon, and firms from developed countries alone no longer undertake this activity. This chapter provides an overview and summary of Foreign Direct Investment from Emerging Markets: The Challenges Ahead, edited by the authors of the chapter. The eminent contributors from around the world demonstrate the importance of rigorous analysis to understand the dilemmas, controversies, disputes and policy issues that need to be considered in connection with this new phenomenon