-intensive manufacturing sectors - ICT, pharmaceuticals and medical devices - and two of the substantially foreign-owned internationally traded …

, and the markets to be served. Foreign investments are driven by market-seeking and cost-reducing motives. We further …) production intensive sectors are more likely to operate a foreign business independent of the investment motive, (ii) that …

regions (China, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and North America) as well as in groups of countries with similar levels of …

the ‘Asian Drivers’ countries India and China. The future global business legitimacy discussion will be Indian and be … western institutions of capitalism, catalyse this process. This study observes China. It looks at the Chinese models of …

As one of the world's largest recipients of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), China is emerging as a key global player … importance of foreign R&D in China based on quantitative mapping in terms of R&D inputs, outputs and local linkages in R …&D-related activities, combined with an in-depth description of the nature of foreign R&D activities. Our empirical observation suggests …

in the face of the emergence of China as an economic powerhouse. The focus of the paper is not on the regional approach … identified. Of these eight positionings, direct competition is considered as an unwise move, considering China being endowed with … relatively cheap labour resources. Together with its huge domestic market which can serve as a magnet for direct foreign …

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the welfare effects of foreign direct investment by investigating the … selection bias, it is found that foreign takeovers have a large negative impact on the propensity to perform innovation … share of sales from product innovations is not significantly affected by a foreign takeover for a given amount of innovation …

can reinforce the case for promoting national champions. We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign … national government whose objective function may include a bias against the foreign takeover. That bias endogenously results … from lobbying efforts of the domestic firm that would become the outsider in the foreign acquisition scenario. In the case …