Why and how FDI stocks are a biased measure of MNE affiliate activity

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1444-1459

  Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd ^a   Hennart, Jean François ^b   Slangen, Arjen ^c   Smeets, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

affiliate sales; affiliate value added; foreign direct investment; measurement bias; MNE affiliate activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649588507     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2010.29     Document Type: Article

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