DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT – A TALE OF NINE THEORETICAL MODELS

The Nature of the Firm

1937 • 23,029 citations

International Investment and International Trade in the Product Cycle

1966 • 7,542 citations

The Future of the Multinational Enterprise

1976 • 4,326 citations

Toward an Eclectic Theory of International Production: Some Empirical Tests

1980 • 2,878 citations

Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis

2007 • 2,540 citations

International Corporations: The Industrial Economics of Foreign Investment

1971 • 2,279 citations

Trade, Location of Economic Activity and the MNE: A Search for an Eclectic Approach

1977 • 2,077 citations

A Simple Theory of International Trade with Multinational Corporations

1984 • 2,028 citations

International Production and the Multinational Enterprise.

1982 • 1,856 citations

International investment location decisions

1992 • 1,844 citations

Multinational Firms and the Theory of International Trade

2002 • 1,688 citations

Imperialism : the Highest Stage of Capitalism

1934 • 1,583 citations

Multinational enterprise and economic analysis

1996 • 1,478 citations

Multinationals, multi-plant economies, and the gains from trade

1984 • 1,471 citations

Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment: An Imperfect Capital Markets Approach

1991 • 1,326 citations

A Theory of Multinational Enterprise

1983 • 1,291 citations

Fiscal Paradise: Foreign Tax Havens and American Business

1994 • 1,194 citations

What are the determinants of the location of foreign direct investment? The Chinese experience

2000 • 1,147 citations

EXPLAINING CHANGING PATTERNS OF INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION: IN DEFENCE OF THE ECLECTIC THEORY

1979 • 1,134 citations

Economic and political determinants of foreign direct investment

1985 • 1,106 citations

The foreign investment decision process

1966 • 1,096 citations

Multinational firms and the new trade theory

1998 • 1,095 citations

Integration versus Outsourcing in Industry Equilibrium

2002 • 1,050 citations

The Location of Foreign Direct Investment Activity: Country Characteristics and Experience Effects

1980 • 859 citations

Taxes, Tariffs and Transfer Pricing in Multinational Corporate Decision Making

1991 • 857 citations

Technological Capabilities and Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in the United States

1991 • 837 citations

Explaining international production

1989 • 762 citations

Oligopolistic Reaction and Multinational Enterprise

2009 • 709 citations

Oligopolistic reaction and multinational enterprise

1973 • 706 citations

Fragmentation: New Production Patterns in the World Economy

2001 • 697 citations

The theory of endowment, intra-industry and multi-national trade

2000 • 682 citations

THE BENEFITS and COSTS OF PRIVATE INVESTMENT FROM ABROAD: A THEORETICAL APPROACH*

1960 • 649 citations

Policy and Non-Policy Determinants of U.S. Equity Foreign Direct Investment

1995 • 632 citations

Determinants of foreign direct investment: A survey

1980 • 626 citations

Lessons from Behavioral Responses to International Taxation

1999 • 594 citations

Discriminating Among Alternative Theories of the Multinational Enterprise

2002 • 557 citations

Multinationals' diversification and the risk‐return trade‐off

1993 • 551 citations

Endogenous market structures in international trade (natura facit saltum)

1992 • 540 citations

Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis

1983 • 536 citations

Taxes and the location of production: evidence from a panel of US multinationals

1998 • 529 citations

The Multinational Firm

1986 • 524 citations

The locational determinants of direct investments among industrialized countries

1988 • 479 citations

Firm and Industry Determinants of the Decision to Invest Abroad: An Empirical Study

1972 • 461 citations

Country size and tax competition for foreign direct investment

1999 • 403 citations

Fragmentation in simple trade models

2001 • 395 citations

Terrorism and Foreign Direct Investment in Spain and Greece

1996 • 385 citations

Strategic Investments and the Development of Multinationals

1987 • 365 citations

Multinational firms, technology diffusion and trade

1996 • 365 citations

The Theory of the Multinational Firm: Optimal Behavior under Different Tariff and Tax Rates

1971 • 357 citations

Multinational Corporations vs. Domestic Corporations: Financial Performance and Characteristics

1986 • 337 citations

Vertical multinationals and host-country characteristics

1999 • 319 citations

The Theory of Trade in Middle Products

2017 • 308 citations

NEW THEORIES OF THE MULTXNATIONAL ENTERPRISE: AN ASSESSMENT OF INTERNALIZATION THEORY

1986 • 302 citations

Bilateralism and Regionalism in Japanese and U.S. Trade and Direct Foreign Investment Patterns

1994 • 294 citations

Causes of Direct Investment: Foreign Firms' Shares in Canadian and United Kingdom Manufacturing Industries

1974 • 293 citations

The location of overseas production and production for export by U.S. multinational firms

1982 • 293 citations

The political economy of international trade

1990 • 286 citations

Multinational Corporations and Trade Structure

1985 • 278 citations

Contracts, intellectual property rights, and multinational investment in developing countries

2001 • 276 citations

Trade and Protection With Multistage Production

1982 • 257 citations

Multinational Firms and the Theory of International Trade

2002 • 254 citations

Transatlantic Investment by Multinational Firms: A Rivalistic Phenomenon?

1978 • 244 citations

New Theories of the Multinational Enterprise

1983 • 235 citations

Licensing versus Direct Investment: A Model of Internalization by the Multinational Enterprise

1987 • 232 citations

Corporate International Diversification and Market Assigned Measures of Risk and Diversification

1975 • 231 citations

The real exchange rate and foreign direct investment in the United States

1994 • 231 citations

Exchange-rate uncertainty and foreign direct investment in the United States

1988 • 228 citations

An Econometric Analysis of U.S. Foreign Direct Investment

1996 • 217 citations

The influence of policy instruments on manufacturing Direct Foreign investment in developing countries

1978 • 217 citations

The Multinational Corporation in the 1980s

1984 • 210 citations

Integration vs. Outsourcing in Industry Equilibrium

2001 • 205 citations

Multinational Enterprise, Internal Governance, and Industrial Organization

2008 • 204 citations

Tax Holidays as Signals

2016 • 197 citations

Determinants of U.S. direct investment in the E.E.C.

1980 • 195 citations

Bidding for Firms

1989 • 191 citations

The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad from the Colonial Era to 1914

1971 • 182 citations

An Econometric Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment in Spain, 1964-89

1994 • 179 citations

The transaction cost theory of the multinational enterprise

1991 • 176 citations

The Pure Theory of International Trade.

1965 • 176 citations

Monopolistic Advantages and Foreign Involvement by US Manufacturing Industry

1980 • 176 citations

International fragmentation and the new economic geography

2004 • 172 citations

American investment in Australian industry

1966 • 169 citations

Analysing the determinants of US direct investment in Mexico

2000 • 162 citations

Industrial Diversification and Internationalization: Some Empirical Evidence

1977 • 156 citations

The Multinational Operations of Swedish Firms: An Analysis of Determinants and Effects

1981 • 155 citations

The growth of international business

1983 • 154 citations

The Multinational Enterprise: Market Failure and Market Power Considerations

2008 • 152 citations

The International Corporation.

1971 • 151 citations

Competition for foreign direct investments

1996 • 150 citations

MONOPOLISTIC ADVANTAGES AND FOREIGN INVOLVEMENT BY U.S. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY *

1980 • 143 citations

Do Exchange Rate Changes Drive Foreign Direct Investment?

1995 • 142 citations

Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment

2002 • 129 citations

The Multinational Firm and the Nation State

1975 • 126 citations

Taxation and Foreign Direct Investment: A Synthesis of Empirical Research

2001 • 124 citations

The theory of endowment, intra-industry and multi-national trade

2021 • 121 citations

Multinational Firms: Easy Come, Easy Go?

2001 • 113 citations

Tax Policy and the Activities of Multinational Corporations

1996 • 109 citations

The Firm and the Market: Studies on Multinational Enterprise and the Scope of the Firm

1988 • 106 citations

Determinants of german manufacturing direct investment: 1980–1988

1993 • 102 citations

International Competition for Multinational Investment

1999 • 101 citations

The Monopolistic Advantages of Multinationals: Lessons from Foreign Investment in the U.S.

1982 • 100 citations

Trade policies for international competitiveness

1990 • 100 citations

Determinants of FDI Incentive Preferences of MNEs

1993 • 92 citations

The Effects of Multinational and Export Diversification on the Profit Stability of U. S. Corporations

1980 • 83 citations

Proximity Advantages, Scale Economies, and the Location of Production

1998 • 82 citations

Multinational Enterprise in Historical Perspective.

1988 • 80 citations

The New International Economic Order

1976 • 77 citations

Fiscal Incentives, European Integration and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment

2002 • 68 citations

Motives for Foreign Investment: The Market Imperfections and Risk Diversification Hypotheses

1975 • 65 citations

Changing determinants of Japanese foreign investment in the United States

1992 • 63 citations

U.S. investment in Scotland

1972 • 57 citations

AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

1993 • 51 citations

Chapter 27 Transnational corporations and direct foreign investment

1989 • 50 citations

The Geography of Multinationals

1985 • 49 citations

Locational advantage and US foreign direct investment in UK manufacturing

1996 • 47 citations

The Determinants of Interindustry Variation of Foreign Ownership in Canadian Manufacturing

1982 • 42 citations

Multinational Investment Attraction: Principal-Agent Considerations

1999 • 42 citations

Risk, direct investment and International diversification

1977 • 38 citations

INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION AND ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF TRADE

1977 • 37 citations

The Social Choice Between Home and Overseas Investment

1960 • 35 citations

The Determinants of U. S. Direct Investment in the E. E. C.: Comment

1972 • 31 citations

Vertical FDI Revisited

2002 • 29 citations

U. S. Private and Government Investment Abroad

1963 • 28 citations

Multinational Enterprise and Natural Resources

1976 • 26 citations

The impact of foreign direct investment on export structure and employment generation

1987 • 26 citations

The motivation and flow of private foreign investment

1961 • 24 citations

Foreign Investment in New Zealand Manufacturing

1967 • 24 citations

Merger theory, property rights and the pattern of U. S. Direct Investment in Canada

1975 • 22 citations

International business enterprise

1968 • 22 citations

The export of capital

2010 • 22 citations

Labor Disputes and Direct Foreign Investment: The Experience of Korea in Transition

1998 • 21 citations

New Forms of International Industrial Co-operation

1985 • 18 citations

The Growth and Evolution of Multinational Enterprise: Patterns of Geographical and Industrial Diversification

1993 • 16 citations

Risk reduction and international diversification: an analysis of large UK multinational companies

1985 • 15 citations

Firm Size and Foreign Direct Investment

1986 • 13 citations

Foreign and domestic multinational presence in the UK

1992 • 7 citations

Outsourcing versus FDI in Industry Equilibrium

2002 • 7 citations

The rationale of the multinational enterprise

1979 • 6 citations

Multinational Investment, Industry Risk and Policy Competition*

2001 • 5 citations