State-owned MNCs and host country expropriation risk: The role of home state soft power and economic gunboat diplomacy

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1044-1060

  Duanmu, Jing Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

economic diplomacy; expropriation risk; foreign direct investment (FDI); political relationships; state owned enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908146334     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2014.16     Document Type: Article

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