Foreign direct investment by small and medium sized enterprises: The theoretical background

✍ Scribed by Peter J. Buckley

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 942 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-898X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00398627

✦ Synopsis

This paper is an attempt to give a theoretical background to research on foreign direct investment by small and medium sized enterprises. Section 2 examines alternative theoretical approaches to SMEs investing abroad. Section 3 outlines the special issues which arise from SME foreign ventures and ends with an attempted synthesis of the theoretical approaches. In Section 4, a brief discussion of the nature of foreign direct investment by SMEs takes place. The paper ends with a short conclusion.