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...

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...

Promotion of private investment is a necessity for capital formation in African countries. Foreign private investment in particular, is considered to be a source of the scarce capital resources, valuable technological know-how and corporate norms and practices. However, given the political...

This paper uses firm level panel data to investigate empirically the effects of direct foreign investment (DFI) on the productivity performance of domestic firms in three emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland. To this end a unique firm level panel data...

This paper presents a methodology for evaluating the relationship between governance and several variables commonly related to the concept of sustainable development, using financial indicators for control. We explore the theoretical framework linking the level of governance of the countries...

As highly populous emerging economies begins to take the centre stage in the world economy; demand for energy is surging at an unprecedented rate. Traditionally used fossil fuels are non-renewable and their use often results in serious environmental pollution, as a result renewable energy is...

Bangladesh as a labour-surplus emerging small open economy emphasises export promotion and greater emigration to accelerate economic development and to improve import capacity by benefiting from remittances. The empirical results show both long-run and short-run positive and significant dynamic...

The debate over the role of ethics in transition economies is part of a larger debate concerning the interaction of state and markets in East Europe. This paper demonstrates the suitability of the institutional approach and the methodological disadvantages of the neoclassical theory concerning...

Poland started political and economic transformation in year 1990. The processes of transformation consist of many different events and movements. One of them was privatisation of economy. The objective of this paper is to present Polish experiences and its results. The text consists of two...