Drivers and Motives for Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investments in Africa

Journal of African Business

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 75-84

  Drogendijk, Rian ^a   Blomkvist, Katarina ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chinese OFDI; emerging markets; internationalization; psychic distance; psychic distance stimuli

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; GLOBALIZATION;

AFRICA; CHINA;

EID: 84880475880     PISSN: 15228916     EISSN: 15229076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2013.804320     Document Type: Article

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