Call for papers: Foreign Direct Investment Trends and Challenges: Technological Innovation, Employment, and Development
The global economy has changed dramatically during the last decades. Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been played an important role in regional economic developments in both developed and developing countries, as a source of finance, technology and innovation, management, labor skills, and competition. However, abilities to both attract and to benefit from FDI vary a great deal depending on the host region since socioeconomic, institutional, and cultural factors both enable and constrain host regions in their efforts to attract and appropriate benefits from FDI. Foreign direct investment can advance economic growth through financial and technological utilization, but the harmful distributional influence of FDI on the inequality of economy has been criticized by divergence schools. Given this overview this session will examine the contemporary trends in FDI and challenges facing the development prospects in both developed and developing countries. Specific topics might include, but are by no means limited to: • FDI, growth, and development • FDI location and determinants • FDI, technology, and innovation • FDI, employment, and human capital • FDI, entrepreneurship, and institutions • FDI and global cities • Global networks of FDI If interested, please send your abstract along with the PIN number to Hao Huang (hhuan...@iit.edu). -- Hao Huang, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Social Sciences Illinois Institute of Technology https://humansciences.iit.edu/faculty/hao-huang
