Multinational Enterprise Knowledge Flows: The Effect of Government Inward Investment Policy

Exploring the Regional Distribution of Inbound Foreign Direct Investment in the UK in Theory and Practice: Evidence from a Five-Region Study

“…The research could now be taken further by introducing employment creation as an alternative dependent variable (following Hill and Munday, 1992) for comparative purposes, for those years for which such data have been made available at the UK regional level by the RDAs. This refinement would help to reinforce the government policy emphasis of the research findings, helping to focus for example on potential trade-offs between securing additional jobs and promoting knowhow creation (following Mudambi and Mudambi, 2005).…”

“…Policy makers should therefore place differing degrees of emphasis on measures facilitating market access, labour productivity, education and training initiatives, R&D and technology development, and the promotion of cluster development and supply chain linkages, as well as on traditional, incentive-based approaches to inward investment strategy, reflecting variations in regional economic circumstances and FDI potential (Stone and Peck, 1996;Phelps, 1997;Loewendahl, 2001a and2001b). Policy makers in the UK's more peripheral regions would thus appear to be better advised to target lower technology FDI, with the potential for higher job-creation potential Mudambi and Mudambi, 2005).…”

What Drives International Competitiveness? An Empirical Test in Emerging Indonesian Market

“…This might trigger subsidiary's knowledge management system to provide more influence on local society (Guimon, 2008;Mudambi & Mudambi, 2005). Today, one of the primary reasons for host government to have more foreign direct investments is due to the needs to update local's knowledge.…”

FDI distribution within China: An integrative conceptual framework for analyzing intra-country FDI variations

“…Developing countries especially seldom meet those prerequisites and consequently even large incentives fail to attract FDI into the high-technology sector. Mudambi and Mudambi (2005) found that incentives for the relatively undeveloped areas of the UK were negatively correlated to knowledge generation and concluded that incentives to resource-poor areas attract only low-technology. The infrastructure and labor skill requirements of the manufacturing and extractive industries however are less stringent and therefore the general-purpose incentives are more successful in attracting FDI into those sectors.…”