Foreign direct investment / Harrison G. Blaine, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blaine, Harrison G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Investments, Foreign.

Investments, Foreign--China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is defined as "investment made to acquire lasting interest in enterprises operating outside of the economy of the investor." The FDI relationship consists of a parent enterprise and a foreign affiliate which together form a Multinational corporation (MNC). In order to qualify as FDI the investment must afford the parent enterprise control over its foreign affiliate. The UN defines control in this case as owning 10% or more of the ordinary shares or voting power of an incorporated firm or its equivalent for an unincorporated firm; lower ownership shares are known as portfolio investment. Foreign direct investment (FDI) plays an extraordinary and growing role in global business. It can provide a firm with new markets and marketing channels, cheaper production facilities, access to new technology, products, skills and financing. For a host country or the foreign firm which receives the investment, it can provide a source of new technologies, capital, processes, products, organisational technologies and management skills, and as such can provide a strong impetus to economic development. Foreign direct investment, in its classic definition, is defined as a company from one country making a physical investment into building a factory in another country. This book presents the latest thinking in the field.

Contents:

Foreign direct investment and performance of Japanese companies of Brazil / Mario Henrique Ogasavara

Core labor standards and foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean: does lax enforcement of labor standards attract investors? / Christian Daude, Jacqueline Mazza, Andrew Morrison

China's FDI inflows and manufacturing structural adjustments: inter-city competition in the globalized delta economies / Chyau Tuan and Linda Fung-Yee Ng

Foreign direct investment and currency hedging / Kit Pong Wong

Environmental regulations and the flow of foreign direct investment: a review of the pollution haven hypothesis / Raymond J. MacDermott

FDI and labour demand adjustment to factor prices and demand shocks in the UK manufacturing industry / Qian Cher Li, Sourafel Girma

On the relationship between OFDI and China's economic standard - test of the Dunning's theory of FDI / Zhang Weifu.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61209-427-9

OCLC:

868031829