Determinants of FDI flows within emerging economies : a case study of Poland / Arkadiusz Mironko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mironko, Arkadiusz, author.

Series:

Studies in economic transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investments, Foreign--Poland.

Investments, Foreign.

Poland.

Industries--Poland.

Industries.

Poland--Economic conditions.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xviii, 306 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Determinants of FDI Flows within Emerging Economies provides a detailed examination of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Poland and explores the impact this has on foreign investment policy. The book analyzes and identifies the location patterns of FDI across different regions in Poland and strives to determine the supporting motives behind location choices of foreign companies. It also identifies the leading foreign firms present in Poland and examines whether their presence has an effect on the location choices of smaller foreign firms from the same industry. A revealed location advantage (RLAis) model is used to determine relative industrial concentration of foreign firms across Polish regions. Furthermore, statistical analysis between RLAis index is used to measure the degree of industrial specialization (across industries) in each region. In addition, relevant local economic factors such as market size, labor pool and skill, amount of FDI, regional GDP, and the investment in R&D are used to determine the relationships that support the attraction of foreign firms to particular regions. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Location Choice and Clustering of foreign Subsidiaries on the Economic Sustain ability and Competitiveness of the Host Regions 1

1.1 Background and problem setting 1

1.2 Outline of the book 3

2 Heterogeneity of Economic Space: Introduction of the Problem 4

2.1 Regional location choices and clustering of firms 4

2.2 Nature of cluster formation 5

2.3 Location choices and clustering of foreign firms 12

2.4 Regional Industrial specialization patterns of foreign firms 13

2.5 An industrial specialization and a country-of-origin trajectory development 15

2.6 The effect of R&D activity, market size, availability of skilled labor, and labor costs on FDI attractiveness 21

2.7 Specificities of transition economies 25

2.8 Summary and expected contribution 26

3 Local Strengths and Foreign Firms' Location Choice: The Research Design, Data, and Methodology 29

3.1 Introduction - dependent variable 29

3.2 Methods of analysis 29

3.3 Organization methods 35

3.4 Examination of regional industrial specialization trajectories of FDI and their determinants 39

3.5 Data and method - explanatory variables 41

3.6 Summary 47

3.7 The effect of the presence of Industry leaders investing in Poland on the location choices of small and medium-size foreign investors 48

4 Concentration of Foreign Firms in Poland based on Industrial Specialization and Country-of-Origin Criteria: The Results and Summary of the Evidence 53

4.1 Regional Industrial specialization patterns of foreign investment 54

4.2 Summary 99

4.3 Country-of-origin - RLAco - concentration patterns of foreign investment 102

4.4 The results of the RLAco data analysis 102

4.5 Summary 130

4.6 The influence of local economic factors on the location choices of foreign investors in Poland 132

4.7 Summary of the results 150

4.8 Can the Polish economy do it alone from now on? Analysis of the results 155

5 The Results of the Effects of Location Choices by Industry Leading Firms Investing in Poland on the Location Choices of Small and Medium-Size Foreign Investors 158

5.1 Do leading firms actually lead? 158

5.2 Review of the findings 160

5.3 Podkarpackie and Wielkopolskie regions 165

5.4 Pomorskie and Slaskie regions 169

5.5 Kujawsko-Pomoiskie and Löclzkie regions 172

5.6 The regions with a single leading firm 175

5.7 The reasons and method of coexistence between large firms and SMEs in Poland 178

6 Final Analysis of FDI Patterns Across Regions in Poland and Policy Recommendations 182

6.1 Policy and further research considerations 186

7 Afterword 188

7.1 Present situation related to FDI in Poland 188

7.2 Moving forward 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137372154

113737215X

OCLC:

870285402