Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of corruption on foreign direct investment … evaluate the impact of corruption on FDI activities.Findings – The empirical results illustrate that corruption is a … components of FDI – greenfield investment and cross-border M&As, are separately examined. Specifically, while corruption …

Vietnam. We find that provinces with low or no bribes in public sectors, more efforts to control corruption, higher market … more FDI. Both efficiency agglomeration and demonstration effects are positive and significant in Vietnam …

This paper focuses on how corruption affects an important internationalization behavior of firms: the extent of control … most relevant, due to its broad effect on the economy, is corruption. Corruption can be thought of as anything that … specifically in the realm of M&A (see Weitzel and Berns, 2006). Although the level of corruption of the host countries is expected …