Over the last decade a significant amount of interest and, subsequently, a large literature has arisen on the topic of foreign direct investment undertaken by emerging market (EM) multinationals (MNEs). This volume is among the latest contributions to this literature. As stated in the preface,...

The effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on indigenous entrepreneurship in emerging markets is shaped in association with the quality of national governance infrastructure. The essential of such a convoluted interplay is concluded: governance quality alters the FDI-based spillovers of...

This research work evaluates the proposition that trade liberalisation is instrumental in pulling FDI inflows to emerging economies. Using panel random effects model on annual data of 6 emerging countries including Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Russian Federation and Turkey from 1996 to 2014, it...

This paper examines FDI determinants in the BRICS and MINT throughout the conditional distributions of FDI for the period 2001-2011. An instrumental variable quantile regression estimation strategy is employed based on the intuition that, the determinants are contingent on initial or existing...

The rise of new global contender MNEs from large emerging markets (EMs) is leading to significant structural transformation of global industries, international institutions, and global power (re)arrangement. Outward FDI undertaken by these EM multinational enterprises (MNEs) is growing fast as...

This chapter asks whether the European Union Member States are ready for inward Foreign Direct Investment from the Emerging Markets. It concludes that European Union Member States have relatively open Foreign Direct Investment regimes in the international context, and yet instances of...

Internationalisation of Russian companies has become a distinctive phenomenon and has drawn attention of scholars, practitioners and policy-makers alike. Newly emerged Russian companies have extended their presence from the nearest former Soviet republics to the advanced markets of Western...

This article investigates the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the productivity of parent firms for multinational enterprises in Taiwan. The current research specifically examines the potential differences in productivity effect between FDI toward developing (vertical FDI) and...

A host of external (global and regional) and internal (country-specific) factors affect Multinational Enterprises' Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) decisions. Differentiating the two entry modes of FDI (mergers and acquisitions [M&A] and Greenfield investment), this paper aims to empirically...