Governance infrastructure and US foreign direct investment

By S. Globerman, Daniel M. Shapiro. 2003

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Individuals, interactions and institutions: How economic inequality affects organizations (2015, background): “Decisions related to investment are related to the governance infrastructure in a country (i.e. investment is lower when infrastructure is weaker; Globerman and Shapiro, 2003).”
Why and how FDI stocks are a biased measure of MNE affiliate activity (2010, methodology): “In line with Campa (1993) and Globerman and Shapiro (2003), we measure the volatility of a host country’s currency/US$ exchange rate by the log of the percentage deviation of this rate from its past 3-year average.”
The impact of institutional quality on foreign direct investment inflows: evidence for developed and developing countries (2018, background): “…good governance can attract more F.D.I. (Gani, 2007; Globerman & Shapiro, 2002; Globerman, Shapiro, & Tang, 2004; La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, Shleifer, & Vishny, 1998; The World Bank Group, 2002), whereas an environment of weak governance cannot protect the investments (Globerman & Shapiro, 2003).”
Corruption Distance and FDI Flows into Latin America (2015, methodology): “However, they present the disadvantage of being estimates and thus, could introduce measurement errors (Globerman & Shapiro, 2003).”
International joint venture partner selection: The role of the host-country legal environment (2009, background): “Globerman and Shapiro (2003) found that American MNEs were less likely to enter countries characterized by weak rule of law and control of corruption than those with strong rule of law and control of corruption.”
Multinational Enterprises and Local Contexts: The Opportunities and Challenges of Multiple Embeddedness (2011, positive): “…Journal of Management Studies © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and Society for the Advancement of Management Studies successful in achieving growth (La Porta et al., 1998, Rodrik et al., 2004), and more MNEs are setting up local operations there (Bevan et al., 2004; Globerman and Shapiro, 2003).”
Home country institutions and the internationalization of state owned enterprises: A cross-country analysis (2016, background): “For example, firms operating abroad will be subject to monitoring and control from local and international stakeholders, such as media (Globerman & Shapiro, 2003, Jensen, 2003; Meyer et al. 2014).”
Top executive compensation, regional institutions and Chinese OFDI (2014, background): “Among the variety of formal institutions, governance as well as legal and regulatory institutions drive, to a large extent, business activities and provide support to social and economic institutions such as product and factor markets (Globerman & Shapiro, 2003).”
The Internationalization of Chinese Family Enterprises and Dunning's Eclectic MNE Paradigm (2005, neutral): “Although there is some evidence on this matter (Globerman and Shapiro, 2002, 2003), the precise identification of location advantages that support relational contracting remains an important issue.”
Multinationals' response to major disasters: how does subsidiary investment vary in response to the type of disaster and the quality of country governance? (2011, background): “…a large and growing body of literature has focused on the direct effects of country governance characteristics on firm behavior (Cuervo-Cazurra and Genc, 2008; Globerman and Shapiro, 2003; Rivera et al., 2009), fewer empirical studies have focused on Copyright 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Strat.”
High-level politically connected firms, corruption, and analyst forecast accuracy around the world (2010, background): “…and analyst forecasts, this study offers insights into how politics may affect the information environment, as the literature shows that factors related to the informational environment affect investor decisions (Agarwal & Feils, 2007; Davis, Desai, & Francis, 2000; Globerman & Shapiro, 2003).”
Exploring the relationship between institutional factors and FDI attractiveness: A meta-analytic review (2018, background): “…stability; Trevino et al. (2008) the Policy Constraints Index, which measures the likelihood of a major host country political or policy change; Globerman and Shapiro (2003) an index of armed conflict, social unrest, ethnic tension, terrorist threats, etc. from the World Governance Indicators…”
Foreign Investment Strategies and Sub-national Institutions in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Vietnam* (2005, background): “The empirical literature shows that investment incentives, lower tax rates and absence of performance requirements (Loree and Guisinger, 1995) as well as more general market-oriented institutions attract foreign investment (Bevan et al., 2004; Globerman and Shapiro, 2003).”