Foreign direct investment (FDI) influences host country's economic growth through several
channels. Empirically, a variety of studies considers that FDI generate economic growth but …

Economic, technological, and political shifts as well as changing business strategies have
driven firms to unbundle production processes and disperse them across countries. Thanks …

For many years to come this volume... is surely going to be the ultimate reference work on
international business... thanks to Dunning and Lundan, have at their disposal, a wealth of …

Local firms may attract productivity spillovers from foreign investors, yet these vary with local
firms' awareness, capability and motivation to react to foreign entry. In consequence …

We examine how institutional configurations, not single institutions, provide companies with
institutional capital. Building on the varieties-of-capitalism approach, it is argued that …

The evaluation of aggregate FDI spillovers to domestic firms has yielded mixed results.
However, analysis has recently taken a step forward with the evaluation of the factors …

Albania has experienced a rapid transition from a centrally planned economy to a mixed
economy since the fall of communism in 1989. Policy changes, trade liberalization, and …

Chinese investment in the African continent is rapidly spreading. Unlike the Maoist
proselytism that defined past diplomatic relations between China and a few African …

This book engages the question, hotly debated among theorists and policymakers alike, of
how a developing country's pursuit of foreign direct investment (FDI) affects its development …

This paper deals with the determinants of absorptive capacity from foreign direct investment
(FDI) spillovers. We study how firm behavior, capabilities, and structure drive absorptive …