The global crisis has called to further reflection on the role of multinationals in host economies during crisis. The evidence on this matter is scarce. Using panel data analysis, this paper examines the link between foreign ownership, firm profit and turnover growth over 1996-2009 covering two...

This paper examines the main incentives and barriers for the FDI projects in the Bulgarian banking sector by employing a questionnaire survey data set. The derived results indicate that a high-risk environment, market size and bureaucracy have been considered similarly either by foreign banks or...

Thoughtful consideration of the Social Responsibility of Business, in general, and Human Rights policies, more specifically, is becoming increasingly vital to the ethical and financial health of US-based multinational firms. This paper explores the major Human Rights issues important to these...

Two of the outstanding features of the growth of the international economy have been the extraordinary expansion of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the multinational corporation (MNC). In attempting to explain these phenomena, it is argued that the growth of FDI and MNCs are more easily...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows are of crucial importance to the process of transition from a planned to a market economy for the Central and East European (CEE) countries in the global marketplace. This paper explores specific obstacles that foreign investors and foreign Multinational...

This paper discusses global managers in the context of globalisation. Do global managers exist? If so, how? In order to understand the relationship between managers, globalisation and corporations initially, some groundwork is laid. First, an overview of globalisation is presented. Next, a view...

This paper examines the extent to which multinational firms operating in the United States, through their locational investments, prefer more rural states over more urban states. Using state-level data for 2000 and using OLS, it was determined that such firms do prefer more rural states....

This study is concerned with Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and economic growth across the world for the period 1991–2001. This article produces fresh empirical evidence on the relation between FDI and economic growth obtained from single-equation and simultaneous-equation estimates for...

This paper examines the extent to which multinational firms operating in the United States, through their locational investments, prefer more rural states over more urban states. Using state-level data for 2000 and using OLS, it was determined that such firms do prefer more rural states....

This paper discusses global managers in the context of globalisation. Do global managers exist? If so, how? In order to understand the relationship between managers, globalisation and corporations initially, some groundwork is laid. First, an overview of globalisation is presented. Next, a view...