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

本文以中东欧后社会主义国家的外商直接投资增长为研究对象。外国直接投资的概念是一种双方之间的社会关系，因此受制于支配所有社会关系的文化理解、权力斗争、体制支持和社会关系。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制度影响。除此之外，还将对州政府官员和投资专家进行更多定性采访。对投资者-东道国二元关系的分析将测试制度、政治和文化关系如何决定这两个国家的投资水平。最后，将使用斯洛文尼亚的成功和不成功案例来调查公司层面在吸引外国投资方面的成功。

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.