Despite the Ethiopian government's commitment to attracting foreign direct investment to its emerging manufacturing sector and its shared interests with Chinese private businesses in building profitable investments, relations between Chinese private businesses and the Ethiopian government are...

The article draws on the concepts of cultural and political embeddedness to analyse the local embeddedness of a global transnational engineering firm in transforming economies. It compares the process of the negotiations for and the acquisitions of assets undertaken by ABB in Wroclaw, Poland and...

In 1973, Augusto Pinochet led a US-backed coup against Salvador Allende, Chile's democratically elected president. Pinochet's supporters argued that the coup was the only way to save the country amid statism and socioeconomic breakdown. But how much was Allende to blame for the crisis that...

In this paper, we argue that the Arab spring can be understood as a violent criticism of and attack against the post-Independence social contract that prevailed in most Middle East and North African countries. We show that this social contract, characterized by the combination of high levels of...

Empirical studies on total factor productivity growth (TFPG) in developing countries highlight trade open-ness, research and development and market structure as being the most important determinants of TFPG. The role of institutions remains overlooked in the literature on the determinants of...

This paper examines the exporting behaviour of Russian manufacturers by considering the effects of firm characteristics and external conditions. Two measures of export behaviour are considered: the decision to export and the share of exports to developed markets. I find that specific exporting...

Companies frequently engage in myopic marketing practices to achieve short term reporting goals. This paper analyzes the effect of Chinese import competition on myopic marketing practices of US manufacturing firms by leveraging cross-industry variation in import exposure. Rising import exposure...

La liberalisation des entrees d’investissements directs etrangers (IDE) dans les pays d’Europe Centrale et orientale (PECO) represente pour ces anciennes economies communistes l’une des reformes les plus importantes, qui s’inscrit dans le sens des changements vers une economie de marche...

This paper explores the horizontal and vertical technology spillover effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) across Indian manufacturing industries. On the basis of Pedroni cointegration tests, we find that technology spillovers can be transmitted via all kinds of intermediate factors. We find...