Proposes that due to the worsening business environment in Taiwan in the 1980s many manufacturing enterprises, the majority being labour‐intensive small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs), were moving out to other developing countries. Explores how owner managers in the Taiwanese Electronic...

Examines the competitive position of countries in Southern Europe in attracting multinational corporations (MNCs) through direct foreign investments (DFIs). Articulates the primary factors considered by multinational corporations when setting up activities through foreign direct investments....

Foreign direct investment in Poland is feared in some political and economic circles, in others it is accepted too enthusiastically. The intention of this paper is not to show which side seems to be right but to attract the attention of Polish economic organisations to the fact that companies...