Taking the Thai trail: Attracting FDI via macro-level policy

Macro-level Traceability Via Media Transformations

This paper proposes an alternative approach to the examination of artifacts whose contents must be traceable to promote software quality. The approach places emphasis on media use and media transformations. We suggest that one cannot begin to assign and sustain traceability relations at a micro-level between units of content if the sign systems that have been created and transformed to represen...

Anthropogenic Influences on Macro-Level Mammal Occupancy in the Appalachian Trail Corridor

Anthropogenic effects on wildlife are typically assessed at the local level, but it is often difficult to extrapolate to larger spatial extents. Macro-level occupancy studies are one way to assess impacts of multiple disturbance factors that might vary over different geographic extents. Here we assess anthropogenic effects on occupancy and distribution for several mammal species within the Appa...

Analysis of Economic Factors Attracting FDI in West China since Reform and Opening-up

Since China performed the policy of reform and opening-up 30 years ago, foreign direct investment (FDI) has exerted important function in the quick development of economy, but the location factors of West China and East China are very different, and their attractions to FDI are not same. According to the location theory of FDI, in this article, taking the city of Chengdu as the example, we util...

From micro-level gender relations to the macro economy and back again: Theory and policy

Corporate governance and FDI: Firm-level evidence from Japanese FDI into the US

Article history: Received 27 April 2011 Received in revised form 30 November 2011 Accepted 30 November 2011 Available online 8 December 2011 Better corporate governance can reduce the scope for increasing shareholder value and thus discourage M&A FDI inflows. Sound governance may also discourage non-M&A FDI inflows in light of the complementary relationship between M&A and non-M&A FDI. We use f...