Li, Su, Antonio Angelino, Haitao Yin, and Francesca Spigarelli
China has been attracting huge amounts of inward foreign direct investment (FDI). However, it exhibits large dissimilarities in terms of FDI localization across territories that warrant further investigation. In this study, the authors explore the determinants of inward FDIs patterns in China at the county level.
This study explores China’s support of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) through state supported development loans to host countries. Through such loans, China develops commercial and diplomatic relationships with host countries, which, in turn, facilitates Chinese firms’ access to resources while at the same time limiting their exposure to host country political risk.
In the past decade, the growth rates of outward foreign direct investment from China and Latin America were remarkable. China and Latin American countries have emerged to be the main investors among developing countries or even in the world. They have different development bases and modes although they are developing countries.
Besant Hobdari, Peter Gammeltoft, Jing Li, and Klaus Meyer
Research on multinational enterprises that originate from emerging economies has highlighted the importance of the home country for firms’ strategies of internationalization. In this paper, the authors outline a simple analytical framework linking institutions and resource munificence in the home country to the domestic business eco-system in an emerging economy, and thereby to strategies of outward investments.
Jonathan Doh, Suzana Rodrigues, Ayse Saka-Helmhout, and Mona Makhija
For nearly two decades, scholars have explored the implications of “institutional voids” for firm strategy and structure. Although institutional voids offer both opportunities and challenges, they have largely been associated with firms’ efforts to avoid or mitigate institutional deficiencies and reduce the transaction costs associated with operating in settings subject to those institutional shortcomings.
Christoph Lattemann, Ilan Alon, Francesca Spigarelli, and Svetla Trifonova Marinova
This co-authored piece presents a multilevel framework to analyze the motivations and location choices of Chinese OFDIs. It contributes to theory-integration on Chinese OFDI flows and patterns by offering a framework that combines country-, industry- and firm-level analyses and by reflecting aspects from the resource-based view (firm-specific advantages), institutional-based view (push/pull home- and host-country factors), and network-based view (network relations).
Katiuscia Vaccarini, Christoph Lattemann, Francesca Spigarelli, and Ernesto Tavoletti
Countries differ on various dimensions such as culture, language, business practices, policymaking, and regulation. Research shows that the amount of "distance" between countries on these dimensions impacts foreign direct investments (FDI) flows. Specifically, the greater the distance the greater the difficulties for investors. In this paper, the authors analyze the perception of "psychic distance" (PD) between China and Germany, by surveying Chinese managers who invested in Germany in the renewable energy (RE) sector.
Iran and China's expanding economic and political relations have a significant regional and global impact that as of yet has not received much scholarly scrut iny. This chapter examines the historical roots, evolution, and development of the Sino-Iranian relationship with a special emphasis on post 1979 period. Many bilateral economic and political issues bind the two nations, such as trade in arms, energy, manufactured goods, and technology. But this relationship also has a political and strategic dimension that serves both nations well. Based on the analysis of the present dynamics, I speculate on possible future trends.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the future of the multinational enterprise (MNE) and implications for the international investment regime. The paper begins by summarising current thinking on multinationals and their motivations for foreign direct investment (FDI). It argues that two “winds of change” – emerging market multinationals and the digital economy – are shattering the traditional view of MNEs and FDI.
Chinese outward foreign direct investment (COFDI) in the European Union (EU) is serving to integrate the Chinese and EU renewable energy sectors and also is playing an important role in addressing each party’s unique economic and technological challenges in the sector. Regarding challenges, China has become a vital source of support for EU firms at a time when the EU struggles to attract global investment flows in the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis.
