Competitiveness Review: Volume 33 Issue 3

Guest editorial: FDI and cities: city location attractiveness for FDI, the dynamics and co-evolution of FDI and urban development

Helen S. Du, Ana Colovic, Christopher Williams

OFDI activity and urban-regional development cycles: a co-evolutionary perspective

Harald Bathelt, Maximilian Buchholz, John A. Cantwell

While conventional views of foreign investment activity primarily relate to efficiency-seeking investments, the authors argue that most other outward foreign direct investments…

Are Chinese MNEs more strongly attracted to global cities and knowledge intensive city clusters than developed market MNEs when undertaking greenfield strategic asset seeking related FDI?

Ludan Wu, Dylan Sutherland, Xinghao Peng, John Anderson

Cities are host to many of the world’s knowledge intensive research and innovation clusters. As such, they are likely to be attractive locations for emerging market multinational…

FDI and cities: network dynamics in cleantech innovation

Ekaterina Turkina, Nasrin Sultana

The purpose of this paper is to understand the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and cities and how the relationship between multinational enterprise (MNEs) and…

Locations, city connectivity and innovation zones in China: a dynamic perspective of knowledge community

Juana Du, Charles Krusekopf

This study aims to examine two innovation zones in China, including the Suzhou Industrial Park and Tianjin Eco-city, to gain a comprehensive understanding of city locations…

FDI motives and city location preferences in the automotive and commercial banking industries

Dan Danes, Patrick van Eijck, Johan P. Lindeque, Mona A. Meyer, Marc K. Peter

Cities remain an understudied unit of analysis for understanding the motives of multinational enterprises’ (MNE) foreign direct investment (FDI), with subnational locations in…

Global cities and multilatinas: the search for global cities-specific advantages, establishment and ownership entry modes

Evodio Kaltenecker, Miguel A. Montoya

This paper aims to study the internationalization path of emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) in their international expansion through the global cities (GCs…