Institutional Investment in Infrastructure in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies

Institutional determinants of investment in transition economies

Investment has been found to be a significant determinant of growth. This paper analyses the effects of institutions and transition progress on investment rates of transition economies since the collapse of the Socialist Bloc. Political institution is measured by the Freedom House’s Political Rights and Civil Liberties indexes; economic institution is proxied by the Index of Economic Freedom co...

Institutional Strategies in Emerging Markets

We review and integrate a wide range of literature that has examined the strategies by which organizations navigate institutionally diverse settings and capture rents outside of the marketplace. We synthesize this body of research under the umbrella term institutional strategies, which we define as the comprehensive set of plans and actions directed at leveraging and shaping sociopolitical and ...

Private Infrastructure Investment in Emerging Economies: Comparing the Latin American and Asian Experience

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in emerging markets has grown rapidly throughout the 1990s. Driven both by investment in newly privatized state-owned enterprises and new, Greenfield projects, infrastructure investment has grown even faster than overall FDI. Using a database of telecommunications projects in emerging markets, we compare key characteristics of private infrastructure projects in L...

IS/IT in Developing and Emerging Economies

In spite of the rapid growth many developing and emerging economies are experiencing, with much of this growth supported by information technology (IT), published research dealing with IT in developing economies is still very limited. The objective of this paper is to direct attention to this apparent gap and provide an overview of the issues related to information systems (IS) and IT specifica...

Private Infrastructure Investment at the Subnational Level: Challenges in Emerging Economies