Foreign Direct Investment by Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises: The Theoretical Background

Peter J. Buckley
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Peter J. Buckley: University of Bradford Management Centre

Chapter 2 in The Multinational Enterprise, 1989, pp 24-45 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter is an attempt to give a theoretical background to research on foreign direct investment by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), Section 2 examines alternatives theoretical approaches to SMEs investing abroad. Section 3 outlines the special issues which arise from SME foreign ventures and ends with an attempted synthesis of the theoretical approaches. In Section 4, a brief discussion of the nature of foreign direct investment by SMEs takes place. The chapter ends with a short conclusion.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Small Firm; Foreign Investment; Multinational Enterprise; Foreign Subsidiary (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11026-1_2

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