The enlargement of the European Union in 2004 to new members from beyond the former Iron Curtain could increase the attractiveness of the whole European continent for firms concerned about competitiveness. The competitive advantage of new members is derived mostly from labor productivity, and...

This chapter assesses the characteristics of Russian outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and multinationals in general and in particular in five EU-member Central and East European (CEE) states, including Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Besides official statistics, the...

In the last years, and particularly since the publication of the famous Barca Report (Barca, 2009), the European Union (EU) is starting to acknowledge the importance of spatially targeted regional policies and to understand how crucial a territorial approach can be in order to achieve desirable...