Magistro baigiamajame darbe išanalizuota ir įvertinta investicijų įtaka Lietuvos ekonomikai. Mokslinėje literatūroje yra atlikta nemažai tyrimų, analizuojančių TUI įtaką, tačiau nedaug kalbama apie jų atskirų komponenčių dinamikos reikšmingumą šalies ekonomikai. Viena iš...

This study focuses on foreign direct investment ("FDI") and its importance to the economy of South Africa. Recognising that FDI, notwithstanding the type, can contribute to economic growth and development, most countries including South Africa are constantly working to attract it, and hence its...

The purpose of this paper is to understand why a host country (HC) shows ex post opportunistic behaviors in E&P projects and frequently forces international oil companies (IOCs) to renegotiate previously signed contracts. This research employs the concept of asset specificity and hold-up problem...

Studies of small firm growth are no longer short in supply. On the contrary, as demonstrated by recent reviews, dozens and dozens of empirical research studies on this topic can be compiled. This does not necessarily mean that we know everything we want to know about small firm growth. In fact,...

This paper examines the relative influence of two key antecedents of brand loyalty-satisfaction and involvement and the moderating role of experience, using a sample of business buyers. The central argument of this paper is that the strength of the effect of these variables on attitudinal brand...

The objective of this dissertation is to identify both individual and contextualcharacteristics that may affect the wage earnings of Chinese in the U.S. labor market.The major individual characteristics include education, labor experience, and Englishability; the contextual factors include...

The main aim of the paper is to examine the short- and medium-term empirical link between current account balances and a broad set of (economic) variables proposed by theoretical and empirical literature. The paper focuses on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), an economically diverse...