scholarly journals Business Groups, Foreign Direct Investment, and Capital Goods Trade: The Import Behavior of Japanese Affiliates

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rene Belderbos ◽  
Ryuhei Wakasugi ◽  
Jianglei Zou
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Business Groups ◽  
Capital Goods ◽  
Import Behavior

scholarly journals Foreign Direct Investment: International Strategies by Business Groups

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-22
Author(s):  
Jorge Pelayo Maciel ◽  
Manuel Alfredo Ortiz Barrera ◽  
Aimee Pérez Esparza
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Business Groups ◽  
Foreign Company ◽  
Panel Analysis ◽  
Negative Relation ◽  
Concentrated Ownership ◽  
International Strategies

This research analyses the decision of foreign direct investment (FDI) followed by business groups, identifies two forms: acquisition and minority purchase of foreign company shares. Analyses how it affects the performance of such groups. Also includes the concentration of property since it forms part of corporate governance. In order to achieve this, a data panel analysis with information of 39 business groups and a total of 3,443 subsidiaries and that have also made FDI in a period ranging from 2012 to 2015. The findings were that the minority purchase of shares achieves a positive relationship with performance and clearly shows that the company's concentrated ownership has a negative relation to performance.

Merchants as Business Groups: British Trading Companies in Asia before 1945

1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Jones ◽  
Judith Wale
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Latin America ◽  
North America ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Business Groups ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Managerial Competencies ◽  
Trading Activities

Merchants formed an important component of British foreign direct investment before 1945. Locating in parts of Asia, Latin America and other developing economies, they often diversified into non-trading activities, including the ownership of plantations. This article examines three such British firms active initially in Asia, though with operations also in North America, Europe, and Africa. Often regarded as handicapped by managerial failings, especially from the early twentieth century, the authors cast these firms as more entrepreneurial and possessing greater managerial competencies than has been suggested. The article argues that their business strategies continued to evolve in the interwar years and that, when viewed as business groups, their organizational forms were robust, though considerable diversity in the performance of the three British firms can be observed. This evidence is shown to have implications for wider debates about the competencies of British management as a whole.

scholarly journals Impact of Currency devaluation on Pakistans Economy

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 2136-2145
Author(s):  
Mohammad Salih Memon ◽  
Faiz Muhammad Shaikh ◽  
Zahid Hussain Kazi ◽  
Syed Abdul Sattar Shah ◽  
Dr.Ambreen Khaskheley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Capital Goods ◽  
Currency Devaluation ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Good Substitute

This Paper investigates the impact of currency devaluation on Pakistans Economy. The Devaluation occurs in terms of all other currencies, but it is best illustrated in the case of only one other currency. Any rising of the prices of such inputs through devaluation, would raise industrial costs and reduce the intensity of capacity utilization.It examines that currency devaluation has positioned Pakistan lose heavily both as seller and as a buyer and has made no good substitute for remedial changes in economic policies and developmental planning.In Pakistan, industries are heavily dependent on imported raw materials for industrial goods and capital goods and components, and their access to advanced countries is blocked by quotas and tariffs. , any rising of the prices of such inputs through devaluation, would raise industrial costs and reduce the intensity of capacity utilization.So, by examining devaluation in Pakistan it is concluded that it has always led us to the cost push inflation and never ending cruel economic circle.There are so many solutions to resolve the currency devaluation as appreciate the currency through Foreign Direct Investment, increase the export of goods in this situation will lead to high cash inflows because there would be high demand push by the countries.

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