Doctoral Dissertation Research: Embedded Economies, Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

本文研究了后社会主义时期中东欧国家外商直接投资的增长情况。外国直接投资被定义为两方之间的一种社会关系，因此受到文化理解、权力斗争、制度支持和支配所有社会关系的社会关系的影响。对纵向、跨国数据的统计分析将检验11个后社会主义国家对外国投资的经济和体制影响。此外，还将对州政府官员和投资专家进行更多定性访谈。对投资者-东道国二元关系的分析将检验制度、政治和文化关系如何决定这对投资的水平。最后，公司在吸引外国投资方面的成功将通过对比斯洛文尼亚的成功和不成功案例进行调查。

This dissertation investigates the growth of foreign direct investment in the post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Foreign direct investment is conceptualized as a social relation between two parties and thus subject to the cultural understandings, power struggles, institutional support, and social ties that govern all social relations. Statistical analyses of longitudinal, cross-national data will test economic and institutional effects on foreign investments in eleven post-socialist countries. These will be supplemented by more qualitative interviews with state officials and investment experts. Analyses of investor-host country dyads will test how institutional, political, and cultural relations determine levels of investment for the pair. Finally, firm level success in attracting foreign investment will be investigated using contrasting successful and unsuccessful cases from Slovenia.