Objectives – Using a single case study of the Global Soap Project, a social enterprise founded by Derreck Kayongo, an African Immigrant resident in the USA, this paper undertakes a discursive analysis of African immigrant entrepreneurship in diasporic contexts. This is in order to probe the...

This contribution discusses legal methodology problems of multilevel trade and investment regulation (section I) and explores related problems of adjudication involving investment projects in the context of China's 2013 ‘One Belt, One Road' (OBOR) initiative involving more than 65 countries...

A new indicator of profitableness (DIRR) of the investor and recipient of the investment project is proposed, which is a generalization and development of the concept of internal rate of return (IRR). It is formed in the form of the sum of the cost of the participant's capital and the project's...

This article considers issues arising from ‘system-internal' reform proposals — proposals which aim to (partly) address investment law's legitimacy crisis by influencing changes in arbitral reasoning so that investment arbitration is undertaken in more acceptable ways. The key techniques for...

Concentrating on package deals and treating the process of international business negotiation as a problem-solving process, this paper analyzes the negotiations between Swedish firms (as sellers) and firms in India and Nigeria as buyer firms. The theoretical framework is derived from Ghauri 1983...

This paper offers preliminary evidence of the extent to which global FDI patterns have responded to the sharp increase in trade barriers since 2018, focusing in particular on the impact of new United States tariffs imposed on imports from China. Using detailed project-level data on new...

Recent heterogeneous-firm models of international trade suggest that productivity determines whether firms engage in export and foreign direct investment. However in practice, m Abstract any productive firms are not internationalized, whereas many unproductive firms are. This situation suggests...