This paper tests the predictive ability of the Business Excellence Model developed by Croatian researchers Ţeljana Aljinović Barać and Vinko Belak in 2007. The model was tested on Croatian publicly listed companies from 2000 to 2006 and it showed 90% validity. Due to the similarities between...

This paper aims to identify the obstacles to attracting "quality" foreign direct investment (FDI) in middle-skill manufacturing activities, so as to inform an action-agenda for policies that will help developing and emerging market economies to link into global supply chains while building...

Foreign direct investment in developing countries has got a bad reputation in some popular discussions where it is set tantamount to first world’s postcolonial exploitation of the raw materials and cheap labour from the third world, associated with pictures of leaking oil fields and collapsing...