“Courting the multinational”: Subnational institutional capacity and foreign market insidership

Institutional Distance and the Multinational Enterprise

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Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Enterprise

Subnational Politics and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): First Causal Evidence∗

Does the party of government influence the amount and type of inward foreign investment? The results of a number of correlational studies provide inconsistent evidence. However none of these studies for any level of government or any jurisdiction have used methods that allow them to speak to causal effects. The partisan differences of economic policy in the US are pronounced. Democratic adminis...

Emergent Global Institutional Logic in the Multinational

The following paper conceptualizes how the dominant institutional logic of the multinational corporation (MNC) is influenced by the local institutional logic of its wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries. It is argued that when both the density and institutional distance of the subsidiaries are high and resource interdependency exists, deinstitutionalization will occur. Institutional behaviours will...

Foreign Investments and Institutional Convergence

Foreign investments are in the focus of most governments around the world. In order to be able to set a policy agenda which is successful in promoting FDI, it is necessary to understand their determinants. This paper examines whether and to what extent sound institutions and the degree of regulation deter or attract FDI flows in four economies of Southeastern Europe. In a dynamic panel analysis...