ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The increase in globalisation and integration of world financial markets has seen a significantenhancement in the amount in foreign investments. This coupled with the downfall of theapartheid regime has given rise to an opportunity for companies to diversify their investment...

South Korean and Taiwanese brands have long been household names. Today, however, the namesof transnational companies (TNCs) from an increasingly diverse set of emerging and developingeconomies are regularly making if not the dinner table conversation then at least the headlines of...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in Journal of Asia Pacific Economy, published by and copyright Routledge.

This paper examines how economic determinants affect foreign direct investment into a sample of Western European and transition countries from 1990 to 2003. The observed differences in the flow of foreign investment into the transition countries, relative to those in Western Europe, provokes the...