Commonalities and differences between production-related FDI (PFDI) and technology-related FDI (TFDI) in developed and emerging economies

Keyvan Alvandi (), Cristina Chaminade and Ping Lv ()
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Keyvan Alvandi : CIRCLE, Lund University, Postal: CIRCLE, Lund University, PO Box 117, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
Ping Lv: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Postal: CIRCLE, Lund University, PO Box 117, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden

No 2013/47, Papers in Innovation Studies from Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research

Abstract: This paper investigates commonalities and differences in firm level determinants of internationalization of production (production related investments or PFDI) and innovation (technology driven investments or TFDI) by Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). Our database is based on a cross country survey which includes firms within Automotive, Agro-processing and ICT sectors from both developing and advanced economies. Our results show that despite some differences, most of the determinants affect in a similar manner both the PFDI and TFDI which rather contradicts recent arguments claiming significant differences between the two. More interestingly however, we found that institutional determinants such as policies related to foreign direct investments play almost no role in internationalization process of firms while managerial (internal to the firm) determinants had a far greater impact.

Keywords: Foreign direct investment; Multinationals; Globalization; offshoring; TFDI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F60 F68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2013-12-20
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