China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has greatly enhanced global interest in investment in the Chinese media market, where demand for digital content is growing rapidly. The East Asian region is positioned as a growth area in many forms of digital content and digital service...

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are central drivers behind neo-liberal globalisation.These enterprises are usually centred in developed countries, with competitiveoperations in developing countries. The literature on MNEs and foreign directinvestment usually focus on the motivation for...

This paper assesses the implications of spatial dependence of outward FDI flows toclarify the importance and prominence of complex foreign direct investment bymultinational enterprises, which are neither purely horizontal nor vertical integrationstrategies. Empirical tests compare the ordinary...

This dissertation explores the concept of globalization as a new world era, andexamines changes in the patterns of global FDI flows, with a focus on Extractive FDIinflows to Third-World or developing countries. It looks at the increased presence ofmultinational corporations (MNCs) in the...

This dissertation explores the concept of globalization as a new world era, andexamines changes in the patterns of global FDI flows, with a focus on Extractive FDIinflows to Third-World or developing countries. It looks at the increased presence ofmultinational corporations (MNCs) in the...

The leisure industry has been one of the fastest growing industries in Britain (Grade,1998), and in the year 2000 accounted for approximately 10% of Britain's grossdomestic product (LeisureWeek, 2000a). Health clubs have been one of the fastestdeveloping business sectors within the leisure...

The opening up process of the central and eastern European (CEE) countries marked new beginnings in terms of greater integration of trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) with Western Europe. Adopting a two-stage out-of-sample gravity equation approach to predicting East West trade patterns,...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2010. Major: Polical Science. Advisor: John Roy Freeman. 1 computer file (PDF(); v, 169 pages, appendices A-B.

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2009. Major: Economics. Advisors: Timothy J. Kehoe and Cristina Arellano. 1 computer file (PDF); ix, 125 pages.

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. June 2011. Major: Business Administration. Advisors: Akbar Zaheer, J. Myles Shaver. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 122 pages, appendices A-C.