Since the 1980s, many developing countries started economic restructuring and an opening up towards global markets, following partly the receipt of the ruling neoliberal economic theory. The results of these processes were mostly ambiguous, however, especially regarding the social consequences....

Szigetvári offers an overview of motivations and experiences of Turkish firms investing abroad, with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe. Turkey is emerging as a major foreign direct capital investor in the new millennium, Eastern Europe being one of the top investment targets for Turkish...

Although the current status of East Central European (ECE) countries in the process and level of their integration into global business varies, a rather general phenomenon is the exhaustion of the foreign direct investment (FDI)-led development model, at least its dominant version of the 1990s...