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...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die internationale Expansion der Pharmaindustrie in Österreich und stellt diese in den Kontext der zunehmenden weltwirtschaftlichen Verflech-tungen. Die Pharmaindustrie in Österreich besteht einerseits aus den Filialen einiger inter-national tätiger...

The contemporary society was given a new feature, called virtual aspect, that gets involved into the daily life of people at a speed close to that of the sun. The Internet and nowadays technologies have become an absolutely perfect integrated part, offering better circumstances for development...

This working paper examines China’s investment policy since the publication of the 2008 OECD Investment Policy Review of China. China remains the largest recipient of FDI among developing countries and FDI continues to play a disproportionately large role in promoting China’s trade,...

This paper addresses the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) ownership mode choice of firms in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) based on three most important theoretical paradigms of IB studies i.e. transaction cost economics, resource based view and institutional theory. The...

This paper examines the pattern and magnitude of China’s outward foreign direct investment (FDI) to the EBRD’s countries of operations. We first analyse the recent trends of China’s outward FDI, with sectoral and geographical distributions, and assess the implications for the transition...

This paper aims at shedding new light on the variables that indicate the level of autonomy of subsidiaries of internationalizing companies. Specifically, we examine subsidiaries located in the transition economies of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs). We identified a sample of 72...

Service infrastructure public-private partnerships (PPPs) in Albania have revealed significant governance problems. The aim of this research is to examine the technical-rational and social contractual issues of PPPs within the broad context of risk, and accordingly propose a governance...

Európa nyugatabbra fekvő térségeiből nézve az orosz gazdasági helyzet a makrogazdasági mutatók alapján 2012-ben egyenesen irigylésre méltónak tűnik. Dilemmák, kérdőjelek és problémák azonban bőven adódnak. Az újonnan felmerülő kérdések egy jelentős része szorosan...