In this paper, we seek to examine the foreign location choices of the international joint ventures (IJVs) engaged by American Companies. In particular we look at the international joint ventures established by the top 100 US MNCs in two points in time, 1986 and 2000. More specifically, we ask...

International business research has long acknowledged the importance of regional factors for foreign direct investment (quot;FDIquot;) by multinational corporations (quot;MNCsquot;). However, significant differences when defining these regions obscure the analysis about how and why regions...

International business research has long acknowledged the importance of regional factors for foreign direct investment (quot;FDIquot;) by multinational corporations (quot;MNCsquot;). However, significant differences when defining these regions obscure the analysis about how and why regions...

We develop and test hypotheses derived from a multi-level theoretical framework for understanding factors shaping the credit risk and capital structure of a quintessentially Asian form of investment known as project finance. It differs from other corporate financing approaches. A project company...

Over the past decades terms such as regionalism, regionalization, 'regional multinationals', and 'liability of regional foreignness' have populated International Business and Global Strategy research. Notwithstanding their popularity, the definition of the term 'region' is ambiguous, which...

We develop and test a multi-level theoretical framework for understanding country-, industry-, syndicate-, firm- and project-specific factors shaping the capital structure and broader risk profile of a quintessentially Asian form of foreign direct investment ("FDI") called project finance....