Objective: To verify the quality of institutional environment and its role in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). The article attempts to provide a quantitative description of the impact of institutional quality (IQ) on FDI inflow to 17 countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) in...

Objective: The objective of the article is to explore how new multinationals construct their FDI location portfolios and what the performance outcomes of these decisions are. Research Design & Methods: Building our conceptual framework on the organisational learning theory, we conduct regression...

Objective: The main objective of the article is to confirm the relationship between the innovativeness of new ventures and exporting. Based on the Oslo Manual, which indicates four main types of innovation, we analysed the innovation processes in firms and the impact of particular categories of...

Objective: The objective of the article is to investigate the moderating role of internationalisation motives on the multinationality-performance relationship of Polish firms. Research Design & Methods: Our article uses panel regression models on a dataset of 97 Polish listed "new" MNEs with...

This paper examines the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) in research and development laboratories by 32 multinational enterprises in the pharmaceutical and electronics industries. The paper applies a dichotomous set of motives for FDI. Results from an econometric analysis of 136...