Networking for Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: How important are ICT Environment and Financial Sector Development?

Ibrahim, Muazu; Adam, Ibrahim Osman; Sare, Yakubu Awudu

doi:10.11130/jei.2019.34.2.346

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“…Thus, the estimated coefficient of the variable "INTERNET" partially reflects the effect of more general investment in information and technology rather than just the effect of Internet access (Clark, 2008: page 19). Studies such as Ibrahim et al (2019) underlined that Internet penetration can be considered as a proxy for ICT among other proxies for ICT.…”

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“…Several empirical studies that focus on the determinants of services exports have controlled for the effect of ICT (proxied by the level of Internet access). The Internet could promote international trade by facilitating commercial transactions (e.g., Vemuri & Siddiqi, 2009), reducing the communication costs between the exporting and importing countries (e.g., Fink et al, 2005), reducing the ill effects of geographical remoteness on countries' integration into the world trade in commercial services (Gnangnon & Iyer, 2018), promoting FDI inflows (e.g., Choi, 2003;Ibrahim et al, 2019), enhancing competition, and reducing the market-specific sunk costs for trade in goods (e.g., Freund & Weinhold, 2004). Gani and Clemes (2013) contended that advances in digital information technology significantly impact the services sector as it allows acceleration in the creation of networks, new markets, and trade transactions among new trading partners.…”

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Effect of the Internet on Services Export Diversification

Gnangnon

2020

Journal of Economic Integration

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The economic effects of information and communication technology (ICT), and particularly the access and use of the Internet (henceforth referred to as "the Internet"), has become the focus of policymakers, researchers, and scholars. Specifically, the development of the services sector due to, among other things, the rapid development of ICT and the Internet, has led economists to recognize the tradability of services, which were long considered a residual and nontradable sector of the economy. This has led to research on the impact of ICT, including the impact of the Internet on trade in services in particular, and on trade performance in general. The rapid development of the services sector is exemplified by statistics. For example, World Trade Organization (WTO) (2019a) reported that in 2018, the volume of world trade in commercial

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Effect of the Internet on Services Export Diversification

Gnangnon

2020

Journal of Economic Integration

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“…(4) Infrastructure. The quality of the infrastructure is an important aspect of assessing the host country's investment environment [53], especially the transport infrastructure. If a country's infrastructure is too poor, it will significantly restrict the p of investment projects.…”

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The Potential of Absorbing Foreign Agricultural Investment to Improve Food Security in Developing Countries

Jiang

Chen

2020

Sustainability

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Global food security has been in a severe condition in recent years, especially in developing countries. These countries need sufficient investment to promote their agricultural development. At the same time, the increasing foreign investment in agriculture has aroused widespread concern in the international community. It is controversial whether it is conducive to the host country’s agriculture and social development. In order to study whether developing countries can promote food security by absorbing adequate and effective foreign agricultural investment, we use principal component analysis and select 135 countries (regions) as samples to construct an indicator system from three aspects: investment demand, investment environment and investment motivation. We use cross-section data consisting of the values of the most recent year updated for each indicator. The results show that the demand for foreign investment in developing countries is strong, but overall, it does not have much investment appeal and the investment environment is bad. There is a gap between the expectations and realities in societies in each developing country in terms of the introduction of foreign agricultural investment to promote food security. Governance and capacity building should be strengthened to reconcile their investment needs with investors’ motives. Meanwhile, more inclusive rules for foreign agricultural investment will help it to play its due role in developing countries.

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“…This ongoing debate suggests that further research on enterprise IT investment is needed. At present, the research studies about the performance of IT investment on firms mainly focus on stock market performance (Chai et al, 2011;Boyko et al, 2014), firm financial performance (Hendricks et al, 2007;Ibrahim et al, 2019) and business operation performance (Gartner and Padman, 2017;Khuntia et al, 2018). According to Boyko et al (2014), the Russian stock market seems to respond more positively to innovative IT investments than to noninnovative investments and IT investments through a global vendor are received negatively by the stock market.…”

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Information technology investment and innovation performance: does investment paradox exist?

Yan

2021

JABS

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to deepen the understanding of the effects of information technology (IT) investment on firm innovation performance and examining the investment paradox effect in China. Design/methodology/approach Using a sample of China’ public firms IT investment data between 2010 and 2016, the authors establish a test model of IT investment and innovation performance. Findings The result indicates that IT investment in firms have no effect on innovation performance in the investment period. However, in the full sample and manufacturing sample, the IT investment has a significant positive effect on innovation performance in the post-investment years. In addition, this study finds that large companies and low-age companies may contribute more to innovation when firm investment in IT. Research limitations/implications There are several limitations in this research. First, the authors are failed to obtain a larger sample about the IT investment information data set in China, so this study was compelled to use limited sample data from China, hence, this could lead to errors of too early generalization. Second, the authors use the number of invention patent applications to represent the performance of enterprise innovation, which may not show enterprise innovation effectively. Third, the firms in the sample are all in China Listed Companies, so this may not accurately reflect the entire environment of firm innovation performance, and could possibly. Practical implications The research confirms that there is a paradox and time lag effect in IT investment, which enterprises should pay attention to. Originality/value Existing research confirms that corporate IT investments can bring new products or services. However, the authors still do not know whether IT investment has improved the company’s ability of innovation. This study will fill this gap and the industry effect and time lag effect of the influence of IT investment on innovative performance are also examined.

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Networking for Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: How important are ICT Environment and Financial Sector Development?

Cited by 21 publications

References 40 publications

Effect of the Internet on Services Export Diversification

Effect of the Internet on Services Export Diversification

The Potential of Absorbing Foreign Agricultural Investment to Improve Food Security in Developing Countries

Information technology investment and innovation performance: does investment paradox exist?

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