This case study presents evidence of a significant correlation between the doing business indicators and flows of foreign direct investment (FDI). Although this does not imply causation, the findings do support the claim that doing business reflects more about the overall investment climate than...

Resource Dependency Theory (RDT) and Global Value Chain (GVC) theory have been deployed in the strategic and international management literatures to address questions of power in dyadic relationships and global production networks, respectively. This paper integrates the two theoretical...