Foreign direct investment in emerging and transition european countries

Foreign Direct Investment, Governance, and the Environment in China

“…Additionally, some researchers examined the role of governance in foreign capital flows, such as Shapiro (2002, 2003) and Globerman et al (2006), suggesting that investment in governance infrastructure helps to attract foreign investment.…”

“…Previous research (Globerman and Shapiro, 2002;Globerman et al , 2006) suggests 'good' governance is characterized by economic freedom, secure property rights, a minimum cost of complying with regulations and restrictions on trade, honest government officials, efficient civil services, and a transparent legal system. Good governance promotes successful performance and hence encourages FDI by increasing the scope for profitable business activities (Globerman et al , 2006).…”

“…Some studies directly use corruption as the measure of governance. In Globerman and Shapiro (2002) and Globerman et al (2006) a broad composite index is employed which includes measures of political instability, rule of law, graft, regulatory burden, voice and political freedom, and government effectiveness. This governance index was developed by Kaufmann et al (1999aKaufmann et al ( , 1999b and updated by Kaufmann et al (2003).…”

“…Similarly, the corruptibility of local government in China may affect the location of FDI. Moreover, corruption should not be considered in isolation and is strongly correlated with the quality of government (see Shapiro, 2002, 2003;Globerman et al, 2006;Fan et al ., 2007), which makes government quality another important determinant of FDI inflows. Therefore, this book is the first to examine the effects of inter-regional differences in corruption and government quality on FDI location choice within a large developing country.…”

Conference proceedings as a matter of bibliometric studies: the Academy of International Business 2006–2008

“…Within the framework of multinational enterprises and foreign direct investments and beyond, the twenty-first century international business literature focuses on global business environment and reflects the importance of (1) growing consumer markets in emerging economies and the geographic shift of economic activity (Globerman et al 2006;Gugler 2006;McKinsey Quarterly 2006;Stiglitz 2004), (2) relationships and value added opportunities for emerging market economies (Bartels 2005;Czinkota and Ronkainen 2009), (3) the ease of technology use, access to information and knowledge dissemination (Bartels 2005;Fan and Hu 2007;McKinsey Quarterly 2006) with improved value of the information technology sector and coordination of services (Czinkota and Ronkainen 2009), (4) innovations (McKinsey Quarterly 2006), and (5) human capital (Noorbakhsh et al 2001) via highly skilled people (McKinsey Quarterly 2006).…”