China has become the top emerging market outward investor, with continuing growth potential. This, in turn, has triggered growing interest in the salient features of this phenomenon, its drivers and the institutional framework in which it is embedded. China's OFDI has indeed clear features: it...

China has become the world's third largest outward investor, behind the United States and Japan. A growing body of literature suggests that China's regulatory framework for outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) is a determinant of the country's rising OFDI. This paper presents a holistic...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to extend the classic country-specific advantage (CSA) – firm-specific advantage (FSA) framework by integrating an institution-based view of CSAs into the discussion of FSAs. In his classic CSA-FSA framework, Rugman suggests that successful...

This paper profiles the scope and diversity of Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Canada over the last decade. The study includes an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of Chinese FDI for Canada and its implications for Sino-Canadian relations. It also discusses how Chinese FDI...

This paper benchmarks Canada's bilateral economic ties with China and compares them with those of other G7 member countries, plus Australia. It uses a gravity model of economic flows to compare actual import, export and investment levels to those predicted by the model. This shows that, in the...

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether adopting OECD-prescribed corporate governance principles can solve the major corporate governance problem in an emerging economy - controlling-shareholder expropriation. We argue that none of any "good corporate governance practices" in OECD...