Overcoming political risk in developing economies through non-local debtJournal of International Business Policy - Tập 6 - Trang 159-181 - 2022
Jakob Müllner, Sinziana Dorobantu
Infrastructure investments are essential in generating sustainable development but also involve extensive political risk and potentially unreliable local partners. We study how banks financing such investments use syndication with non-local partners to pool economic leverage from trade, investment, and FDI. Using 5928 of the world’s largest infrastructure and energy projects in 160 countries betwe...... hiện toàn bộ
Industrial policy environments and the flourishing of African multinational enterprisesJournal of International Business Policy - Tập 6 - Trang 408-431 - 2023
Baniyelme D. Zoogah, William Y. Degbey, Maria Elo
Research on African organizations has focused on the influence of environmental factors in organizational effectiveness. However, increasing concerns about challenges in Africa and how they negatively affect organizational outcomes have necessitated leveraging the “positive turn” of organizational scholarship to advance a perspective of how industrial policies can permit Africa-originated multinat...... hiện toàn bộ
Intergovernmental organizations, institutional schisms, and business environmentsJournal of International Business Policy - Tập 6 - Trang 141-158 - 2021
Elizabeth M. Moore, Kristin Brandl, Luis Alfonso Dau
The last two decades have been marked by devastating global challenges that threaten the international problem-solving activities of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), which have guided global interactions for decades. They offer collective actions by member countries, but come with pressures to create and sustain integrative IGO policies implemented by all members. If these globally focused ...... hiện toàn bộ
The Belt and Road Initiative and international business policy: A kaleidoscopic perspectiveJournal of International Business Policy - Tập 5 - Trang 135-151 - 2022
Jiatao Li, Ari Van Assche, Xiaolan Fu, Lee Li, Gongming Qian
In this editorial, we take stock of the nature and scope of China’s global development strategy named the “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI), and how it influences international business (IB) policy. We build on the state of the current IB literature on the BRI and the findings of the Special Issue articles to suggest the need for complex integrative thinking on the initiative. We show that the BRI ...... hiện toàn bộ
The influence of societal nationalist sentiment on trade flowsJournal of International Business Policy - - Trang 1-35 - 2023
Douglas Dow, Ilya R. P. Cuypers
In recent years, the world has witnessed a backlash against globalization and a rise in populist and nationalist movements around the world. However, there appears to be little empirical research concerning how these movements, and especially nationalist sentiment, actually influence trade. Therefore, we explore how and when nationalist sentiment within a country influences trade. Our results indi...... hiện toàn bộ
A bargaining and property rights perspective on the Belt and Road Initiative: Cases from the Italian port systemJournal of International Business Policy - Tập 5 Số 2 - Trang 172-193 - 2022
Luise, Cristian, Buckley, Peter J., Voss, Hinrich, Plakoyiannaki, Emmanuella, Barbieri, Elisa
Infrastructural assets are vital for a country’s economic and social development. Governments typically provide the regulation and administration of these assets, while multinational enterprises (MNEs) develop, construct, finance, and operate them. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) promises infrastructure projects that deliver economic and social benefit for both the host country and the MNE, how...... hiện toàn bộ