Multinational Business Review: Volume 24 Issue 4

Regulatory institutions and Chinese outward FDI: an empirical review

Victor Zitian Chen, Yuanyuan Li, Sara Hambright

This paper aims to review the effects of home regulatory institutions on outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in the context of China and discuss the extent to which they can…

The effect of patent enforcement strength and FDI on economic growth

Constantinos Alexiou, Joseph Nellis, Nikolaos Papageorgiadis

This paper aims to study the effects of the strength of patent enforcement on economic growth following the signing of the agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual…

Developing effective local content regulations in sub-Sahara Africa: The need for more effective policy alignment

Desmond Tutu Ayentimi, John Burgess, Kerry Brown

The authors propose a strategic-balance approach to local content laws in which less developed economies in sub-Sahara Africa can develop investment incentive policies for…

Does politics matter? Partisan FDI in Central and Eastern Europe

Viatcheslav Avioutskii, Mouloud Tensaout

While many studies have investigated the impact of institutional factors (i.e. financial risk factors) in the host country on inward foreign direct investment (FDI), fewer studies…

An analysis of Japan’s connectivity to the global innovation system

Ahreum Lee, Ram Mudambi, Marcelo Cano-Kollmann

In the modern knowledge-intensive economy, a nation’s competitiveness depends on the ability of its constituent firms to innovate. Extant research in national systems of…