 Value for money: a network approach to Dutch economic and commercial diplomacy in the USARenée Jones-Bos, Stephan Raes and Ramin Kader International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy, 2012, vol. 1, issue 2, 134-146 Abstract: The USA is the Netherlands's 6th largest export partner, the second most important destination of outward Dutch foreign direct investment (FDI) and the second largest origin of inward FDI. Given the potential for strengthening the bilateral economic relationship, the Dutch economic network in the USA has an ambitious agenda. The focal point in this agenda is the build-up of government-to-government, but increasingly also government-to-business networks, and the opening up of these networks for Dutch companies and the Netherlands economy at large. This article takes a practitioners perspective, and provides a case study on economic and commercial diplomacy 'in practice'. It provides an overview of the 'network approach', illustrated by concrete examples. It will use data from the existing evaluation method in the network to assess the return on investment of the network approach in economic and commercial diplomacy. The conclusion is that the 'network approach' indeed appears to provide 'value for money'. Keywords: economic diplomacy; commercial diplomacy; Netherlands; United States; USA; economic networks; exports; foreign direct investment; FDI; government-to-government; G2G; government-to-business; G2B. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijdipe:v:1:y:2012:i:2:p:134-146 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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