Since economic transition started, a close relationship has developed between privatization and foreign direct investment. It has nevertheless been an unequal relationship: while privatization has undoubtedly dominated foreign-directinvestment inflows, in most Central and Eastern European...

Since the late 1990s, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland have emerged as a relatively important European research and development platform for foreign investors. Investors started targeting Hungary first, followed by Poland and the Czech Republic soon after. Firms operating in the automotive...

This paper explores the main features of outward foreign direct investment by Russian transnational corporations - referred to as 'eagle multinationals' in the literature - and some of the implications of their recent rise to global prominence (since the 1990s) for the paradigms of international...

In Central and Eastern Europe, outward foreign direct investment (FDI) has not yet become as a prominent factor in the regions reintegration into the world economy as trade liberalisation used to be in the early 1990s or inward foreign direct investment is currently. In the terminology of the...

This article attempts to apply the flying geese metaphor to emerging foreign direct investment (FDI) patterns in Europe and the Mediterranean. Such a division of labour is at best at a nascent stage, given the overwhelming share of Western Europe in both inward and outward foreign direct...

The global economy is changing rapidly and multinational corporations (MNCs) are at the forefront of this transformation. This book provides novel and profound analyses of how MNCs and emerging economies are related, and how this relationship affects the dynamics of the global economy. In...

In Central and Eastern Europe, outward foreign direct investment (FDI) has not yet become as a prominent factor in the region’s reintegration into the world economy as trade liberalisation used to be in the early 1990s or inward foreign direct investment is currently. In the terminology of the...