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

本项目考察了国家成功运用经济（解体）一体化作为外交政策工具的程度。也就是说，国家何时以及为什么可以利用经济治国之道向商业公司施压，迫使其进行符合其外交政策利益的投资？该项目将考察一个侵略国的外资企业，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深度全球化的条件下，母国针对侵略国的经济治国策略的相对成功提供新的见解。该项目还将为来自不同背景的研究生和本科生提供数据管理和分析方面的实践培训和实践经验。本项目考察了跨国公司（MNC）对东道国政治冲击的反应，同时明确了跨国公司行为的深度异质性，特别是在非常强烈的经济制裁的情况下。该理论不仅纳入了东道国和母国的政治风险，以及政治风险对进入和退出决策的影响，这解决了文献解释外国直接投资（FDI）因侵略战争而中断的严重空白。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、公司新闻稿和相关文本来源的多语言语料库的分析，记录入侵后公司层面的行为。本项目的理论和实证相结合的目标是确定在当代经济全球化条件下，经济治国方术和母国政治利益——无论是赞成撤资还是反对撤资——与跨国公司决策的相关性。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.