This paper summarizes a research project devoted to analyzing the development of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and emerging multinational companies from Visegrád countries: The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. After several years of foreign direct investment inflows to...

The paper deals with the implication of the financial crisis on the FDIs.The author draws readers' attention to the role of FDI in the CEE banking sector in the post-transition period and discusses the impact of the crisis, which has become the most serious challenge of transition models in the...

The report focuses on the potential of the development of small and mid-size businesses in Moldova. It provides an economic overview of the country, and then analyzes various best practices and lessons learned from the development of SMEs in the Visegrad countries, especially Hungary. The report...

The definition and understanding of the Industry 4.0 concept vary widely in the literature and among practitioners. The objective of our research was to analyse the perceptions of Industry 4.0 in the Visegrad companies and the explanations for the differences thereof; and second, to compare...

This working paper analyses investment by Russian firms in the four Visegrád countries, their motivations and ownership advantages, based mostly on the eclectic paradigm. Beside statistical data, we rely on case studies to present the profile of the most important Russian investors in each host...

The rise of FDI from emerging markets has become a focus of attention since the turn of the century. Over the past few years, firms from these markets have become major investors abroad, complementing their home countries‘ traditional role as recipients of FDI. To help understand this...

Chapter 1: Introduction: The nature and structure of the inventory problem -- Chapter 2: Review of the literature -- Chapter 3: Methodology -- Chapter 4: Analysis of inventory behaviour of OECD countries -- Chapter 5: Stability of macroeconomic variables -- Chapter 6: Inventory developments in...