Submission Deadline: May 2014
The level of globalisation in the contemporary business environment is
indicated by the transmission and impact of the recent global financial,
economic and sovereign debt crisis. International trade and foreign direct
investment (FDI) are still the most important driving factors of globalization,
and the latter has become more important than the former in the aftermath of
the crisis.
UNCTAD statistics indicate that in 2008 – when the crisis was a global
phenomenon – world FDI stock was approximately 26 percent of world gross
domestic product (GDP), at the same time as the value of merchandise and
services trade was approximately 33 percent of world GDP. The most recent data
available from UNCTAD statistics indicates that world FDI stock was
approximately 30 percent of world GDP in 2011, while the value of merchandise
and services trade was approximately 23 percent of world GDP.
The aim of the special issue is to reveal the determinants, strategy
and impact of internationalisation through FDI in the aftermath of the current
global crisis.
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