Does Public Governance Always Matter? How Experience of Poor Institutional Quality Influences FDI to the South*

Julia Darby, Rodolphe Desbordes, Ian Wooton

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Abstract

This paper investigates whether the higher prevalence of South multinational enterprises (MNEs) in risky developing countries may be explained by the experience that they have acquired of poor institutional quality at home. We confirm the intuition provided by our analytical model by empirically showing that the positive impact of good public governance on foreign direct investment (FDI) in a given host country is moderated significantly, and even in some cases eliminated, when MNEs have been faced with poor institutional quality at home.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationGlasgow
PublisherUniversity of Strathclyde
Pages1-39
Number of pages41
Volume10
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2010

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Public governance
Institutional quality
Multinational enterprises
Foreign direct investment
Analytical model
Developing countries
Host country
Intuition

Keywords

  • south-south fdi
  • public governance
  • institutions

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Darby, Julia ; Desbordes, Rodolphe ; Wooton, Ian. / Does Public Governance Always Matter? How Experience of Poor Institutional Quality Influences FDI to the South*. 03. ed. Glasgow : University of Strathclyde, 2010. pp. 1-39
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Darby, J, Desbordes, R & Wooton, I 2010 'Does Public Governance Always Matter? How Experience of Poor Institutional Quality Influences FDI to the South*' 03 edn, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, pp. 1-39.

Does Public Governance Always Matter? How Experience of Poor Institutional Quality Influences FDI to the South*. / Darby, Julia; Desbordes, Rodolphe; Wooton, Ian.

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Darby J, Desbordes R, Wooton I. Does Public Governance Always Matter? How Experience of Poor Institutional Quality Influences FDI to the South*. 03 ed. Glasgow: University of Strathclyde. 2010 Dec, p. 1-39.

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