Konara, P and Wei, Y orcid.org/0000-0003-2556-880X (2019) The complementarity of human capital and language capital in foreign direct investment. International Business Review, 28 (2). pp. 391-404. ISSN 0969-5931
Abstract
Integrating the literature on language-MNEs (multinational enterprises) in international business and economic theory of human capital (HC), we establish an analytical framework to systematically examine how HC and language capital (LC) jointly determine foreign direct investment (FDI). We contend that the extent to which MNEs can leverage HC in a host country for FDI depends on LC. Based on an extensive bilateral dataset covering 3315 country pairs during 1995–2008, we reveal clear evidence on the moderating role played by LC in HC-FDI relationship and such evidence is robust to different measures used for different variables, the inclusion of more control variables and different samples.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2018, Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of a paper published in International Business Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Language capital; Human capital; Foreign direct investment |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > International Business Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2018 11:28 |
Last Modified: | 22 May 2020 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2018.10.009 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:137926 |
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