The Location of Foreign Direct Investment: Geographic and Business Approaches

The location of foreign direct investment is important because it defines the realignment of capital relationships between countries. Locational choice is ever expanding, making an examination of incentives, entry mode, location choice as cultural learning, and failure of foreign controlled plants long overdue. Contributors from the diverse field of economic geography, economics, finance and marketing come together to provide a picture of foreign direct investment. The diversity of viewpoint, method of analysis and geographic area held by the contributors provides a treatment of foreign direct investment. The book should be of interest to students of geography and business alike, and also government regulators of foreign direct investment and local development officials hoping to attract foreign direct investment.