The ongoing globalisation has not stopped short of the banking sector. From a political point of view wide voiced concerns about the effect of such banking globalisation have arisen. From a scientific perspective, one of the open points left for dicussion, is the question which factors shape...

Standard foreign direct investment (FDI) theory suggests that falling trade costs should discourage horizontal FDI. Most FDI is horizontal. Yet, the world witnessed an FDI boom in 1990s, a period of striking falls in trade barriers. This paper carries out an empirical analysis with rich,...

Research indicates a positive correlation between firm-specific characteristics and international entrepreneurship, vis-a-vis the mode of market entry selected for overseas markets. Equally, the level of international entrepreneurial orientation is related to specific prevailing factors in the...