scholarly journals Outward FDI and Entrepreneurship: The Case of China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Shen ◽  
Peter Koveos ◽  
Xiaodong Zhu ◽  
Fei Wen ◽  
Jiaxian Liao

Outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) from developing countries, like China, has been growing significantly so far. However, there is surprisingly little research on the effects of OFDI on the home county’s entrepreneurship. In this paper, we initially examine the characteristics of China’s OFDI during the country’s economic reform and opening up. We subsequently test for the hypothesis that Chinese OFDI, along with the Chinese entrepreneurial institutional environment and inward FDI, impacted entrepreneurial activities from the year of 2004 to 2015. We find that OFDI has an inverted “U” effect on entrepreneurial activities, and that the impacts of inward FDI as well as the foreign trade are different in the coastal and non-coastal cities. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for researchers and policymakers as well as the limitations of our data.

Author(s):  
Keilla Dayane da Silva-Oliveira ◽  
Edson Keyso de Miranda Kubo ◽  
Michael J. Morley ◽  
Rodrigo Médici Cândido

AbstractResearch examining emerging economy inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows is on a significant upward trajectory. In this bibliometric analysis covering 806 articles published between 1994 and 2019, we map key aspects of its contours. Our analysis proceeds in two sequential phases involving a performance analysis, followed by a thematic analysis. Our performance analysis unveils fundamental elements of the structure of the knowledge base. Our subsequent thematic analysis identifies three focal topics arising from identifiable shared qualities characterizing this literature. Firstly, we distinguish scholarship focused on inward FDI into emerging economies formed by two particular classes, namely ‘innovative FDI’ and ‘capital flows’. Our second theme covers outward FDI from these emerging economies and also comprises two specific classes referring to the ‘institutional environment’ and the ‘theoretical framework deployed’. Our final theme relates to an integrated body of knowledge explicating aspects of the location choice decision. Building on this analysis, we isolate a number of opportunities for future research.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 434-448
Author(s):  
Alisa Ibrahim ◽  
Nigel Driffield ◽  
Keith Glaister

Purpose  of  Study:  This study investigates the determinants of ASEAN outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and the extent to which the four general motives of OFDI (market seeking, efficiency-seeking, resource-seeking, strategic-assets-seeking) can explain the phenomenon in the four chosen ASEAN countries (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia). Methodology: We used panel data from 2001 – 2016 and the Tobit regression model to ascertain the results. We found that each country possibly has slightly different motives between each other although market seeking is seen as the general motive. As most of the previous studies focused on other developing countries such as BRICS, this study contributes to the small but growing literature of ASEAN economies. Furthermore, the usage of the Tobit regression Model helps us in explaining the variables with zero value, hence yielding a more informative result. Results: We found that, in general, some determinants were consistent with findings in the literature, while others need further investigation. Lastly, based on the findings, we can conclude that the mainstream theory of outward FDI applies to ASEAN.


The outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) is an important vehicle through which the multinational enterprises (MNEs) expand their global business. Before the initiation of the liberalisation measures, India was more of a recipient than a contributor of foreign direct investment in the global economy. led to an astounding The ongoing liberalisation measures embarked in 1991 growth of outward FDI in India. This study performed a comparative analysis of the outward FDI from India during the post-liberalisation period (1992 to 2018) using a time series data set collected from the UNCTAD. The analysis revealed that the outward FDI from India was increasing faster than the inward FDI, both in terms of FDI stock as well as FDI flows, in the post-liberalisation period. At the same time, growth of outward FDI from India was much faster than that from the developing countries and from the world; therefore, the share of India in the global outward FDI and in the outward FDI from developing countries has been steadily increasing. This reflected the growing presence of Indian multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the global economy in the post-liberalisation period.


Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (11 (109)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Alexey Kuznetsov

The article highlights three stages of the formation of multinationals from developing countries. Although first Argentine TNCs appeared at the turn of the 19th — 20th centuries, in the majority of the Global South countries TNCs appeared in the 1960s — 1980s. With the collapse of the bipolar world order, which in many developing countries was accompanied by significant internal political and economic transformations, the second stage of foreign expansion of TNCs from the Global South began. Indeed, in 1990 they accounted for 6 % of global outward foreign direct investment stock, while the figure was 10 % by the end of 2005. We date the beginning of the third stage to the financial and economic crisis of 2007—2009, since multinationals from developing countries as a whole are more successfully overcoming the period of turbulence in the global economy. By the end of 2020, they accounted for 22 % of global outward foreign direct investment stock, and during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis they generally exported more than 50% of the capital. The modern foreign expansion of such TNCs has many reasons, differs greatly from country to country, and often differs slightly from the specifics of Western multinationals. At the same time, initially, “late internationalization” in developing countries had two main vectors — the use of new opportunities for South — South cooperation and overcoming, through the creation of subsidiaries in highly developed countries, the shortcomings of the business environment of “catching up” countries.


2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao-Hsi Huang ◽  
Kai-Fang Teng ◽  
Pan-Long Tsai

Using panel data of a group of 39 middle-income countries over 1981–2006, this paper examines how globalization in general and inward and outward FDI in particular affects inequality. Depending on geographical region and economic system, each component of globalization affects inequality in three groups of countries in different ways: open to inward FDI tends to affect income distribution adversely in transition economies and Latin American countries, but marginally improves income distribution in countries of the reference group. In contrast, open to outward FDI is positively associated with inequality in the reference group whereas negatively associated with that of the other two groups of countries. Crucially, improvement in human capital appears to be the single most reliable way to reduce inequality.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuyuan Jiang ◽  
Dan Cheng

Since China put forward the strategy of “going out”, outward foreign direct investment (FDI) began to grow rapidly, and the manufacturing industry, as the pillar industry of our country, is facing the dilemma of transformation. This paper will focus on this topic of the relationship between the outward FDI and upgrading of China’s manufacturing industry structure, and sort out and summarize the domestic and foreign literature. It is concluded that the existing literatures are consistent: the outward FDI can promote the upgrading of industrial structure of home country. In terms of China’s manufacturing industry, the outward FDI can promote the upgrading of China’s manufacturing industry, however, the impact have a kind of hysteresis quality, and may produce the phenomenon of “industry hollowing out”.


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