What Is The Pattern Of FDI?
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- Question: Why do firms in the same industry undertake FDI at about the same time and the same locations?
- Knickerbocker - FDI flows are a reflection of strategic rivalry between firms in the global marketplace
- multipoint competition -when two or more enterprises encounter each other in different regional markets, national markets, or industries
What Is The Pattern Of FDI?
702053 - Foreign Direct Investment
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- Question: But, why is it profitable for firms to undertake FDI rather than continuing to export from home base, or licensing a foreign firm?
- Dunning’s eclectic paradigm - it is important to consider
- location-specific advantages - that arise from using resource endowments or assets that are tied to a particular location and that a firm finds valuable to combine with its own unique assets
- externalities - knowledge spillovers that occur when companies in the same industry locate in the same area
What Are The Theoretical Approaches To FDI? - The radical view - the MNE is an instrument of imperialist domination
- and a tool for exploiting host countries to the exclusive benefit of their capitalist-imperialist home countries
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What Are The Theoretical Approaches To FDI? - The free market view - international production should be distributed among countries according to the theory of comparative advantage
- embraced by advanced and developing nations including the United States and Britain, but no country has adopted it in its purest form
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What Are The Theoretical Approaches To FDI? - Pragmatic nationalism - FDI has both benefits (inflows of capital, technology, skills and jobs)
- and costs (repatriation of profits to the home country and a negative balance of payments effect)
- FDI should be allowed only if the benefits outweigh the costs
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