Political Risk, Volume of FDI, and Ownership Strategy: Contextual Analysis of African Markets

This research examines the relationship between political risk and volume of FDI activity ownership strategy foreign firms in Africa. Our study employs panel regression models to examine 2,360 FDIs into four low five high African countries during period 2010-2017. data represents from top 10 with most investments Africa (UNCTAD, 2018). We find that there is a progressive increase by multinationals countries, even though remain preferred destinations. also joint venture (JV) countries. The this helps mitigate potential hostile government policies such as expropriations. contributes both theoretically empirically enrich economy international business literature.