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Fdi Perspectives: Issues In International Investment

Karl P. Sauvant

The 30 chapters in this volume, written by diverse experts on international investment, cover a wide range of issues in this field. Their purpose is to inform readers in a concise manner about some of the important issues and trends in the contemporary debate on FDI and to promote a wide-ranging discussion about the policy implications of major trends and events.

International Investment Law In Transition, Karl P. Sauvant, Jose E. Alvarez

Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant and Jose E. Alvarez, “International Investment Law in Transition,” in Jose E. Alvarez and Karl P. Sauvant, with Kamil Gerard Ahmed and Gabriela del P. Vizcaino, eds., The Evolving International Investment Regime: Expectations, Realities, Options (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. xxxi-xlii.

China, Inc. Goes Global, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

No abstract provided.

Mnes From Emerging Markets: New Players In The World Fdi Market

Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant, Vishwas P. Govitrikar and Ken Davies, eds., MNEs from Emerging Markets: New Players in the World FDI Market (New York: Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, 2011), e-book, with a Preface by the editors.

Inward And Outward Fdi Country Profiles

Karl P. Sauvant

The key role MNEs play in the global economy through international investment, and the changing landscape of such investment as MNEs as well as host and home economies adjust to changing conditions and objectives, make it important to understand trends and developments with respect to FDI and the policy context in which they take place. This second edition of country profiles seeks to contribute to such an understanding by bringing together, in a single collection, the country profiles on inward and outward FDI prepared as part of the Columbia FDI Profiles series. Authored and peer-reviewed by scholars from around the …

Knowledge Management And Transfers Between North And South Korea At The Kaesong Industrial Complex, Jeffrey L. Gower

Jeffrey L Gower

The countries of North Korea and South Korea entered into an agreement in 2002 to develop a Special Economic Zone in the Kaesong Industrial Region of North Korea. The resultant Kaesong Industrial Complex, or KIC, was designed to attract South Korean investment and supply South Korean firms with inexpensive North Korean labor to be directed with South Korean management, in return for hard currency payment of land rents and employment for North Korean workers. Other KIC competitive advantages include proximity to the Seoul consumer market and a workforce that speaks a common language. However, North Korean labor had little experience …

Prior Knowledge And New Product And Service Introductions By Entrepreneurial Firms: The Mediating Role Of Technological Innovation., Patrick Murphy, Jintong Tang

Patrick J. Murphy

Most research on new product and service development by entrepreneurial firms takes an individual-level, pre-launch perspective or firm-level post-launch perspective. Our study examines two components of the new product and service introduction process: how entrepreneurs’ prior knowledge underpins (1) firm technological innovation prior to the introduction of new products and services (pre-launch) and (2) post-launch viability of those new products and services. Our findings, based on a series of analyses of data from 158 entrepreneurial firms, show that formal technological innovation fully mediates the relation between prior knowledge and the introduction of viable new products and services.

Falling Short: Has The Sec’S Quest To Control Market Manipulation And Abusive Short-Selling Come To An End Or Has It Really Just Begun?, Richard Ramirez

Richard E. Ramirez, J.D. | CFCS

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A 2x2 Conceptual Foundation For Entrepreneurial Discovery Theory., Patrick J. Murphy

Patrick J. Murphy

Theories about entrepreneurial discovery are important to entrepreneurship. However, the dominant conceptual foundation underlying such theories hinders their development. It assumes that opportunities form based on either deliberate search or serendipitous discovery. I examine this unidimensional logic and identify a gap in its informative content. Then, I reframe it into orthogonal dimensions. The multidimensional model describes the same cases as the unidimensional model but also describes what the unidimensional model cannot, including cases that are high or low on both dimensions. This extension yields a 2x2 conceptual foundation for entrepreneurial discovery theory that promotes the development and coordination of distinct …

Firm Incorporation Outside The U.S.: No Exodus Yet, Eric J. Allen, Susan C. Morse

Susan Cleary Morse

As one tax director told the Senate Finance Committee in 1999, the U.S. tax rules for multinationals with a U.S.-incorporated parent are onerous enough that even a U.S.-based company like Intel might sensibly choose to incorporate its parent outside the U.S, presumably in a tax haven jurisdiction. Is the recent positive trend in the proportion of U.S.-listed initial public offering firms incorporating outside the U.S. enough evidence to suggest that corporations are heeding the substance of that tax director’s advice? Our results indicate that it is not.

Only 210 firms, or about 7.2% of our sample of 2,911 firms that …

The Secret Weapon Of Globalization: China's Activites In Sub-Saharan Africa, Kehbuma Langmia

Kehbuma Langmia