UNCTAD Transnational Corporations Journal

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Making global value chains visible: Transnational corporations versus domestically owned firms

Yuning Gao, Bo Meng, Gabriele Suder, Jiabai Ye and Yongping Sun

International project finance deals as indicators of productive cross-border investment: UNCTAD’s approach

Rémi Pierre Viné, Astrit Sulstarova, Bruno Casella and Claudia Trentini

Fourth Industrial Revolution and FDI from SMEs: The Case of the Republic of Korea

Sang Hyun Park, Amelia Santos-Paulino and Claudia Trentini

Does language affect the location choice of developing-economy MNEs? The case of Moroccan outward FDI

Jihad Ait Soussane, Mohamed Yassine Fakhouri, Ayoub Sabir Almaslouhi and Zahra Mansouri

Do human capital and institutional environment constrain the impact of foreign direct investment inflows on economic growth in Africa?

Friday Osemenshan Anetor and Olusegun Vincent

How does policy create an opportunity window for China’s digital economy?

Si Zhang, Shirong Gu and Yuxuan Tang

Deep trade integration and North-South participation in global value chains

Zarlasht Razeq

A new framework to assess the fiscal impact of a global minimum tax on FDI

Bruno Casella and Baptiste Souillard

Analysing MNEs structure and activities using country-by-country reports. Evidence from the Italian dataset

Vera Santomartino, Barbara Bratta and Paolo Acciari

Does FDI in agriculture promote food security in developing countries? The role of land governance

Berna Dogan

How can academic-policy collaboration be more effective? A stewardship approach to engaged scholarship in the case of SME internationalization

Margaret Fletcher, Pavlos Dimitratos and Stephen Young

The treatment of tax incentives under Pillar Two

Belisa Ferreira Liotti, Joy Waruguru Ndubai, Ruth Wamuyu, Ivan Lazarov and Jeffrey Owens

Multinational enterprises and the welfare state

Nigel Driffield, Holger Görg, Yama Temouri and Xiaocan Yuan

The evolution of digital MNEs: an empirical note

Claudia Trentini, Joao de Camargo Mainente and Amelia Santos-Paulino

Major features of Ethiopia’s new investment law: an appraisal of their policy implications

Bereket Alemayehu Hagos

From few to many: main trends in the internationalization of business R&D

Bernhard Dachs and Georg Zahradnik

The threshold effects of global economic uncertainty on foreign direct investment

Konstantinos Lagos and Yuan Wang

GVC spillovers on total factor productivity of local firms: evidence from the Russian Federation

Igor Drapkin, Anna Fedyunina and Yuri Simachev

African industrial hubs: diversity, unevenness and strategic approach

Arkebe Oqubay

A reassessment of UNCTAD’s transnationality indices in the digital economy

Claudia Trentini

Who owns international business?

Robert Grosse

Making the most of FDI for development: “new” industrial policy and FDI deepening for industrial upgrading

Stephen R. Buzdugan and Heinz Tüselmann

Evidence-based policymaking in a VUCA world

Lorraine Eden, Charles F. Hermann and Stewart R. Miller

Investing in sustainable infrastructure: new directions for international business research

Sarianna Lundan and Gunnar Leymann

Harnessing power within global value chains for sustainable development

Ari Van Assche and Kristin Brandl

World Investment Forum 2021: insights from the Academic Track and a future research agenda

James Zhan, Richard Bolwijn and Amelia Santos-Paulino

Overcoming institutional voids in the home country for internationalization: an exploratory examination of institutional strategies of Indian MNEs

Rishika Nayyar and Rajdeepa Maity

International venturing and investment: global citizens and golden visas

Maria Elo

Green lemons: overcoming adverse selection in the green bond market

Karim Henide

Exports, trade costs and FDI entry: evidence from Japanese firms

Ivan Deseatnicov, Konstantin Kucheryavyy and Kyoji Fukao

Implications of rising trade tensions for FDI projects

Emily Blanchard, Amelia Santos-Paulino, Claudia Trentini and Emmanuel Milet

The global governance of FDI and the non-market strategies of TNCs: explaining the “backlash” against bilateral investment treaties

Stephen R. Buzdugan

Special economic zones: methodological issues and definition

François Bost

The relationship between perceived corruption and FDI: a longitudinal study in the context of Egypt

Eman Moustafa

Post-pandemic reconfiguration from global to domestic and regional value chains: the role of industrial policies

Stefano Elia, Luciano Fratocchi, Paolo Barbieri, Albachiara Boffelli and Matteo Kalchschmidt

Home-country export regulations, credit markets, and corruption: implications for different types of internationalization

David B. Audretsch, Maksim Belitski, Farzana Chowdhury and Sameeksha Desai

Globalization of innovation: the moderating role of project-level investment strategy and country type in location choice for R&D-related FDI

Eliane Choquette, Stine Jessen Haakonsson, Peter D. Ørberg Jensen and Søren Feodor Nielsen

Forecasting global FDI: a panel data approach

Nina Vujanovic, Bruno Casella and Richard Bolwijn

Cultural spillovers from multinational to domestic firms: evidence on female employment in Costa Rica

Ricardo Monge-González, Luis Rivera and Nanno Mulder

Rapid FDI of emerging market firms: foreign participation and leapfrogging in the establishment chain

Yuanyuan Li and John Cantwell

An evaluation of the effects of the European Commission's proposals for the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base

Alex Cobham, Petr Janský, Chris Jones and Yama Temouri

When near is far and far is near: physical and constructed dimensions of geography and their implications for inward FDI performance

Lilac Nachum, Grigorios Livanis and Hyokyoung Grace Hong

The role of multinational and trading enterprises in employment and the gender pay gap: evidence from Finland

Henri Luomarant, Fernando Cantu, Steve MacFeely and Anu Peltola

The success and failure of Russian SEZs: some policy lessons

Alexey Kuznetsov and Olga Kuznetsova

The role of regulation and MNEs in ensuring equal opportunities for women

Renata Vargas Amaral and Lillyana Daza Jaller

Can multinational firms promote gender equality? The role of labour mobility

C. Austin Davis and Jennifer Poole

Foreign investment and female employment in Viet Nam

Anh Pham, Jennifer Poole and Amelia Santos-Paulino

Women empowerment, supply chain linkages and FDI: evidence from Bangladesh

Ana Fernandes and Hiau Looi Kee

Foreign direct investment and gender inequality: evidence from South Africa

Victor Stolzenburg, Marianne Matthee, Caro Janse van Rensburg and Carli Bezuidenhout

Insider’s advantage: when foreign firms do not capture opportunity in the local labour market

Alessandra L. González

The impact of foreign direct investment on gender inequality in India

Shruti Sharma

Assessing the impact of foreign ownership on firm performance by size: evidence from firms in developed and developing countries

Karol Fernández Delgado

Introduction to the Transnational Corporations special issue on multinational enterprises and gender equality

Jennifer Poole, Amelia Santos-Paulino and James X. Zhan

Assessing the impact of foreign ownership on firm performance by size: evidence from firms in developed and developing countries

S. Selsah Pasal and Arslan Chaudhary

Structural transformation through free trade zones: the case of Shanghai

Guangwen Meng and Douglas Zhihua Zeng

Promoting African digital multinationals for a more inclusive post-pandemic future

Kevin I. N. Ibeh

Digital transformation of global value chains and sustainable post-pandemic recovery

Xiaolan Fu

Meta-trends in global value chains and development: interacting impacts with COVID-19 in Africa

Pádraig Carmod

The rising tensions between efficiency and resilience in global value chains in the post-COVID-19 world

Ismail Gölgeci, Harun Emre Yildiz and Ulf Andersson

Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for human rights and modern slavery vulnerabilities in global value chains

Hinrich Vos

Introduction to the focused section: COVID-19 and international production

Peter Enderwick and Peter Buckley

Introduction to the focused section: COVID-19 and international production

James X. Zhan, Richard Bolwijn, Amelia Santos-Paulino and Heinz Tüselmann

The intersection of public procurement law and policy, and international investment law

Dominic Npoanlari Dagbanja

Employment and state incentives in transition economies: are subsidies for FDI ineffective? The case of Serbia

Uros Delevic

The relationship between MNE tax haven use and FDI into developing economies characterized by capital flight

Ali Ahmed, Chris Jones and Yama Temouri

Are special economic zones in emerging countries a catalyst for the growth of surrounding areas?

Susanne Frick and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

The blurring of corporate investor nationality and complex ownership structures

Eleonora Alabrese and Bruno Casella

Why do western SMEs internationalize through springboarding? Evidence from French manufacturing SMEs

Noémie Dominguez

Substituting expats with locals: TNCs and the indigenization policies of Saudi Arabia

Abdullah Alanezi, Tamer K. Darwish, Satwinder Singh and Anne Miroux

How TNC subsidiaries shine in world cities: policy implications of autonomy and network connections

Frank McDonald, Jens Gammelgaard, Heinz Tüselmann and Christoph Dörrenbächer

Neighbours with different innovation patterns: the implications of industrial and FDI policy for the openness of local knowledge production

Eunkyung Park and Ahreum Lee

Covid-19 and investment – an UNCTAD research round-up of the international pandemic’s effect on FDI flows and policy

James X. Zhan

Improving the analysis of global value chains: the UNCTAD-Eora Database

Bruno Casella, Richard Bolwijn, Daniel Moran and Keiichiro Kanemoto

Investment in agriculture and gender equality in developing countries

Axèle Giroud and Jacqueline Salguero Huaman

From special economic zones to greater special economic region – Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as a model for legal infrastructure design

Teresa Cheng

MNEs, human rights and the SDGs – the moderating role of business and human rights governance

Stefan Zagelmeyer and Rudolf Sinkovics

Change and continuity in special economic zones: a reassessment and lessons from China

Xiangming Chen

Innovation by MNEs in emerging markets

Robert Grosse

Looking through conduit FDI in search of ultimate investors – a probabilistic approach

Bruno Casella

Factors contributing to the strength of national patent protection and enforcement after TRIPS

Nikolaos Papageorgiadis, Chengang Wang and Georgios Magkonis

Home-country measures to support outward foreign direct investment: variation and consequences

Florian Becker-Ritterspach, Maria L. Allen, Knut Lange and Matthew M. C. Allen

Global value chains and the fragmentation of trade policy coalitions

Ari Van Assche and Byron Gangnes

Diverse paths of upgrading in high-tech manufacturing: Costa Rica in the electronics and medical devices global value chains

Gary Gereffi, Stacey Frederick and Penny Bamber

Establishing the baseline: estimating the fiscal contribution of multinational enterprises

Richard Bolwijn,, Bruno Casella and Davide Rigo

The Mauritius Convention on Transparency and the Multilateral Tax Instrument: models for the modification of treaties?

Nathalie Bravo

Act of creation: the OECD/G20 test of “Value Creation” as a basis for taxing rights and its relevance to developing countries

Michael Lennard

International tax, regulatory arbitrage and the growth of transnational corporations

Sol Picciotto

SEZs and economic transformation:towards a developmental approach

Aradhna Aggarwal

A half-century of resistance to corporate disclosure

Alex Cobham, Petr Janský and Markus Meinzer

An FDI-driven approach to measuring the scale and economic impact of BEPS

Richard Bolwijn, Bruno Casella and Davide Rigo

Estimating the fiscal effects of base erosion and profit shifting: data availability and analytical issues

David Bradbury,, Tibor Hanappi and Anne Moore

Sharing the corporate tax base: equitable taxing of multinationals and the choice of formulary apportionment

Tommaso Faccio and Valpy Fitzgerald

Does tax drive the headquarters locations of the world’s biggest companies?

Kimberly Clausing

Transfer pricing and state aid: the unintended consequences of advance pricing agreements

Lorraine Eden and William Byrnes

Introduction to the Special Issue Trade, investment and taxation: policy linkages

Jeffrey Owens and James X. Zhan

Special economic zones and entrepreneurship: A new path forward for SEZs in Africa?

Susanne A. Frick and Imane Radouane

Arguments for implementing formulary apportionment in the European Union

Joana Andrade Vicente

Good corporate governance practices are not universal. Unlike practices in institutional settings in developed countries, which have attracted most scholarly attention, corporate governance practices in emerging economies lean towards addressing principal-principal conflicts that stem from concentrated ownership. The study employs a difference-in-differences panel data design with matched samples of Chinese firms cross-listed in mainland China and Hong Kong (China) and of those listed only in Hong Kong (China) based on propensity score matching. It thus adopts a natural experimental setting – the promulgation of China’s Revised Securities Law in March 2020 – to pinpoint whether and how legal revisions of investor protection laws can really benefit investors. The findings show that independent directors in cross-listed firms turn over significantly more than those in firms listed only in Hong Kong (China). Also, it suggests that firms mainly replace departed directors with new directors from similar demographics. Furthermore, the study observes no evidence of significant changes in board independence in the short run. The findings suggest that policymakers should mind unintended consequences beyond the intended outcomes of the legal reforms on corporate governance, particularly the potential disproportionate impacts on smaller firms

Wei Lin

Consolidated foreign wealth of nations: Nationality-based measures of international exposure

Andre Sanchez Pacheco

FDI in the digital economy: a shift to asset-light international footprints

Bruno Casella and Lorenzo Formenti

Bridging the productivity gap: A comparative analysis of foreign-owned and domestic firms in Viet Nam

Ha Van Thi Cam, Trang Mai Le, Thao Viet Tran and Huyen Thi Thanh Vu

An innovative measure for digital firms’ internationalization

Harald Puhr, Jakob Müllner and Claudia Trentini

Game-changer business models for sustainable development

Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Denanjalee Gunaratne and Noemi Sinkovics

Why it is time for a “Global Value Chains for Least Developed Countries Initiative”

Ari Van Assche

Discussion, debate and dissent about investment and sustainable development at the 2023 World Investment Forum

Paul M. Vaaler

The drivers of investment and savings rates: An exploratory note

Kunal Sen

Exploring knowledge spillovers and GVC participation to understand double counting in GVCs: A case study of Japan

Onur Biyik

Subsidies and MNE investment location choices: Unravelling the effects of firm specificity and immediacy

Pascal Mayer and Christopher Albert Sabel

Accelerating achievement of the SDGs: International business and the deployment of traditional knowledge

Peter Enderwick and Peter J. Buckley

Internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises: A new assessment

Amelia Santos-Paulino, Claudia Trentini and Hamidreza Bakhtiarizadeh

How subsidiaries influence innovation in the MNE value chain

Edward Gilmore, Ulf Andersson and Noushan Memar

Intrafirm trade and tax haven linkages: Evidence from Indian manufacturing

Swati Verma

Globalized production processes and foreign governmental lobbies: Analysing the United States Foreign Agents Registration Act reports

Iku Yoshimoto

The United Kingdom Modern Slavery Act: Are we making progress? A look at organizational commitment to eradicating modern slavery

Heather Carle and Linda Brewer

Reshoring, nearshoring and development. Readiness and implications for Latin America and the Caribbean

Carlo Pietrobelli and Cecilia Seri

Are emerging market MNEs more attracted towards better patent enforcement regimes when undertaking greenfield R&D-focused FDI?

Ludan Wu, Dylan Sutherland and John R. Anderson

The role of innovation policies in SME internationalization: Evidence from Türkiye

Seda Koymen, Amelia Santos-Paulino, Claudia Trentini and Berna Dogan

Greater risk and a smaller opportunity: The opportunity space of SME internationalization in lower-income countries

Chikondi Ng’ombe, Theunis Mans and Helena Barnard

Drivers of R&D greenfield investment projects in the communications, software and IT service industries in developing countries

David Schulzmann, Evis Sinani, Bersant Hobdari and Bent Petersen

Online incorporation platforms in Estonia and beyond: How administrative spillover effects hamper international taxation

Matti Ylönen, Wolfgang Drechsle and Veiko Lember

Challenges at the intersection between investment provisions in regional trade agreements and implementation of the GloBE Rules under Pillar Two

Ruth Wamuyu, Belisa Ferreira Liotti and Jeffrey Owens

Why do African multinationals invest outside their home region? Should they?

Kevin I.N. Ibeh

Using special economic zones to facilitate development: policy implications

Rajneesh Narula and James X. Zhan