Using a proprietary database of telecommunications projects in emerging markets, we investigate key location characteristics of private infrastructure projects in Latin America and Asia. We identify economic, institutional, sectoral, and cultural variables that influence project structure, and...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction to the Key Issues -- 2 Foreign Direct Investment and Development -- 3 Multinational Enterprise Strategies and Development -- 4 The Role of International Institutions -- 5 The Contributions and Impact of Civil Society -- 6...

This book offers a fresh perspective on the role of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in development. Alan M. Rugman and Jonathan P. Doh challenge traditional assumptions about economic development and address the controversies that surround MNEs. For example, how do foreign multinationals affect...

Purpose: The relationship among foreign direct investment, multinationals, inequality and growth is a vexing one that has occupied considerable scholarly and practical attention for many decades. To date, international business scholars have not fully concerned themselves with this issue...