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Sri Lanka was the earliest South Asian economy to introduce economic reforms to attract export-oriented FDI. The rise …
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internationalization of firms, and whether if affects the destination of foreign investments. Emerging markets FDI is a much-debated topic … advantages on the choice for developed countries as a destination for Brazilian FDI. We also test which modes of entry are …
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This paper contributes to the current debate in both Economic Geography and International Business on the nature and strategies of Multinational Enterprises MNEs from emerging countries EMNEs. The paper fills a very relevant gap in the existing literature by shedding new light on the location...
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Many countries in the world have adopted policies to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), placing the traditional … focus on the maximisation of FDI flows, what can be labeled as a quantitative approach. Recently it has been argued that the … FDI policy should be more selective, promoting good quality FDI inflows. The "quality" implies a certain level of …
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This paper deals with the interplay between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the industrial and innovation policies … existing foreign-owned affiliates, instead of striving to attract higher volumes of FDI inflows. …
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This paper uses firm-level survey data of Kenyan manufacturing industry to examine the significance of FDI and firm … revealed a statistically significant role played by FDI in determining human capital development in all the firms. Other … choice of Kenyan manufacturing industry presents an ideal case to evaluate FDI, firm-level capabilities and human capital …
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The paper focuses on the emergence of Russia's multinational companies. It aims to analyse their motives to internationalise as well as the approaches to internationalisation. While relevance of the theoretical perspectives is highlighted, the intention of the paper is to contribute to the...
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A key feature of globalisation has been the growth and spread of multinational enterprises (MNEs), but there is here is considerable evidence that MNEs do not regard all locations as being equivalent. MNE activity both to and from peripheral economies differs from MNE activity associated with...
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The life sciences sector (and biotechnology in particular) has emerged as a prospective area, and attracted a lot of attention recently. Multinational companies in the life sciences seek to explore new markets, and, on the other side, governments strive to develop the life sciences sector...
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This paper explores whether the internationalization trajectories - patterns over time in the level, pace, variability and temporal concentration of international expansion - of large firms from China and India are fundamentally different from those of developed country firms. A longitudinal...
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