Characteristics and performance of Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elie V. Chrysostome ◽  
Nathaniel C. Lupton
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
And Performance

Doing Business in Africa and African Business Opportunities

2014 ◽  
pp. 119-166
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Performance Levels ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
And Performance

This is a key chapter in this book. It is central to the book’s message and explains fully the concept “doing business in Africa.” The chapter further classifies African business opportunities into enabling and specific opportunities. Specific opportunities are precise areas of Foreign Direct investments. The enabling opportunities are resources and institutions that make investing and doing business in Africa possible and easier. These resources and institutions include USA, European, Chinese, Brazilian, and Indian strategies to promote investment and “doing business in Africa.” These strategies further include linkages and several USA, European, Indian, Brazilian, and Chinese institutions focusing on promoting African trade and business. Moreover, the various perspectives of Foreign Direct Investment in Africa are elucidated and African countries are classified according to their economic development and performance levels.

scholarly journals Assessing Sustainable Foreign Direct Investment Performance in Malaysia: A Comparison on Policy Makers and Investor Perceptions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pick-Soon Ling ◽  
Ming K. Lim ◽  
Ming-Lang Tseng
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Performance Level ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Qualitative Information ◽  
Foreign Investors ◽  
Fuzzy Delphi ◽  
And Performance

Sustainable foreign direct investment (SFDI) contributes to the development of the economic, environmental, and social aspects in rational governance practices in Malaysia. Prior studies lack the integration and synthesis of the SFDI attributes from the policymakers and foreign investors’ perceptions. These attributes are measured through the qualitative information and subjective perceptions and need to transform into comparable values. The fuzzy Delphi method is applied to identify the valid set of SFDI attributes and confirms the validity and reliability of these attributes. Moreover, prior studies have not examined the importance and performance of those valid attributes in qualitative information. The fuzzy importance and performance analysis is proposed to assess the attributes’ importance and performance level. The results show that financial, macroeconomic, and institutional policy aspects are among the most important SFDI attributes, together with environmental and social aspects. This study identifies the discrepancies between policymakers and foreign investors and suggests that the financial aspect is the priority of foreign investors that needs to be concentrated for improvements; meanwhile, the institutional and policies and social aspects in performance level are presented as a big contradistinction. The theoretical and policy implications are discussed.

Characteristics and performance of Japanese foreign direct investment in Europe

1995 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Detlev Nitsch ◽  
Paul Beamish ◽  
Shige Makino
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
And Performance

Outward Foreign Direct Investment, Restructuring and Performance Upgrading: Firm-level Evidence from Portugal

2020 ◽  
pp. 097215092091603
Author(s):  
Natália Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Outward Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Learning Effects ◽  
Micro Data ◽  
Outward Fdi ◽  
Export Intensity ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
And Performance

This article assesses the causal relationship between outward foreign direct investment (FDI) and various sides of firm performance, using micro data from Portuguese manufacturing firms during 2006–2014. To control for the possible endogeneity of outward FDI strategies, propensity score matching is combined with difference-in-difference approach. Our analysis shows that the learning effects for parent firms in Portuguese manufacturing depend on the underlying outward FDI strategy. The findings suggest that outward FDI could contribute to enhance firms’ productivity and their scale of operations. However, those learning effects seem to be mostly visible when firms engage in vertical outward FDI. Further, outward FDI, vertical or horizontal, appears to enhance the integration of Portuguese firms into the global economy through increased export intensity. From a managerial and policy perspective, the findings support the argument that outward FDI can indeed be at root of upgrading performance and firm’s restructuring in a small, open and peripheral economy such as Portugal.

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