Collaborative Research: RAPID: Multinational Corporation Behavior in Time of War

合作研究：RAPID：战时跨国公司行为

• 批准号: 2234189
• 负责人: Rachel Wellhausen
• 金额: $ 6.3万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2234189&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; RAPID; Multinational; Corporation

This project examines the extent to which countries can successfully wield economic (dis-)integration as a foreign policy tool. That is, when and why can countries use economic statecraft to pressure commercial firms to make investments consistent with their foreign policy interests? The project will examine the universe of foreign-owned firms in one aggressor state, and researchers will use multilingual media reports, corporate press releases, and other textual sources to document the behavior of MNCs toward the aggressor state. Findings from this project will provide new insights into the relative success of home countries' economic statecraft strategies against an aggressor nation under conditions of deep economic globalization. This project will also benefit both graduate and undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds through hands-on training and practical experience with data management and analysis.This project examines multinational corporation (MNC) responses to a common host country political shock, while making clear the depths of heterogeneity in MNC behavior, even and especially in light of remarkably strong economic sanctions. The theory incorporates not only host but also home country political risk, and the effects of political risk on decision-making at entry and exit, which addresses serious lacunae in the ability of the literature to explain disruptions in foreign direct investment (FDI) due to aggressive war. The project will generate a public, replicable dataset covering the universe of MNCs operating in a nation-state that initiated an aggressive war. The researchers will document firm-level behavior following the invasion, based on an analysis of a multilingual corpus of media reports, corporate press releases, and related textual sources. A combined theoretical and empirical goal of this project is to identify the relevance of economic statecraft and home country political interests – whether favoring divestment or otherwise – to MNC decision-making under conditions of contemporary economic globalization.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

本项目审查各国在何种程度上能够成功地运用经济一体化（解体）作为外交政策工具。也就是说，国家何时以及为何可以利用经济治国术向商业公司施压，使其投资符合其外交政策利益？该项目将研究一个侵略国的外国公司，研究人员将使用多语言媒体报道，公司新闻稿和其他文本来源来记录跨国公司对侵略国的行为。该项目的研究结果将为在经济全球化深入发展的条件下，母国对侵略国的经济治国战略的相对成功提供新的见解。本项目还将通过数据管理和分析的实践培训和实践经验，使来自不同背景的研究生和本科生受益。本项目考察了跨国公司（MNC）对共同东道国政治冲击的反应，同时明确了MNC行为的异质性的深度，即使是在非常强烈的经济制裁的情况下。该理论不仅包括东道国，但也母国的政治风险，以及政治风险对决策的影响，在进入和退出，解决了严重的空白，文献的能力，解释中断外国直接投资（FDI）由于侵略战争。该项目将生成一个公共的、可复制的数据集，涵盖在发起侵略战争的民族国家中运营的跨国公司的范围。研究人员将根据对媒体报道、企业新闻稿和相关文本来源的多语种语料库的分析，记录入侵后企业层面的行为。该项目的理论和实证目标相结合，是确定经济治国方略和母国政治利益的相关性-无论是有利于撤资或其他-在当代经济全球化的条件下，跨国公司的决策。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。