Handbook of International Business Policy

Edited by Philippe Gugler, Professor, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland and Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Professor, CEF.UP-FEP, University of Porto, Portugal

Contents:

Introduction: a challenging journey lies ahead for international business policy 1
Basile de Raemy, Philippe Gugler and Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann

PART I PUBLIC POLICIES AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
1 Want to facilitate FDI? Be SIMPLE and SPECIAL 8
Matthew Stephenson
2 Inward investment restrictions: key policy tools and trends 28
James Zhan and Massimo Meloni
3 Features and trends of international investment agreements (IIAs) 43
Philippe Gugler and Basile de Raemy
4 Electoral uncertainty and the multinational corporation:
a conceptualization, firm-level effects and strategies 62
Jonas Puck, Jakob Muellner and Hubertus Reinprecht
5 Industrial policy and FDI 80
Vítor Corado Simões and Ricardo Paes Mamede
6 Refining contemporary thinking on corruption: bridging insights from
political economy to international business 104
Zhaowei J. Chen, Roberto Martin N. Galang and Andrew Delios
7 Janus-like antitrust policy: how to make the pro-FDI orientation prevail 127
Sergio Mariotti and Riccardo Marzano
8 Anchoring international business through urban and regional policies 144
Luís Carvalho

PART II INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS POLICY (IBP) AND FIRMS’
STRATEGIES
9 Innovation and international business policy 158
John Cantwell and Marianna Marra
10 The changed geopolitical map: implications for international business
policy in a sustainable finance perspective 172
Pervez N. Ghauri, Lars Oxelheim and Trond Randøy
11 Redefining multinational operations: the impact of CSR on international
business policy 193
Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez and Miguel Cordova
12 An institutional framework for analysing the influence of international
business policy on creating shared value 214
Murat Akpinar and Agnieszka McCaleb
13 From orange to cyber: the role of international business policy in
creating “Startup Nation” 229
Tamar Almor and Daniel Berliner
14 FDI policy revisited: the role of clusters 246
Marta Götz and Barbara Jankowska
15 Multinational companies at the intersection of home and host country
foreign direct investment policies: an analysis of Chinese investments
in Europe 262
Filip De Beule and Louis Brennan
16 Government policies for MNEs’ sustainable linkages 277
Axèle Giroud, Stephania Bonilla-Feret and Fulvia Farinelli
17 Towards a theoretically based global foreign direct investment policy regime 296
Peter J. Buckley

PART III GLOBAL CHALLENGES AND INTERNATIONAL
BUSINESS POLICY (IBP)
18 Sustainability in a digital world: geopolitics, values and international
business policy 329
Václav Ocelík and Ans Kolk
19 Policies for an environmentally sustainable development in global value chains 348
Valentina De Marchi
20 Digitalization, industry 4.0 policies and inward foreign direct
investments: evidence from European regions 359
Olimpija Hristova Zaevska, Diletta Pegoraro and Lucia Piscitello
21 Too big, too fast, too dangerous: dynamics of digital platform firm
internationalization and government policy development 394
Andreas Schotter and Daniel S. Andrews
22 Inward FDI screening: recent developments and selected case studies 408
Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann and Josélia E. Teixeira
23 Taxation of multinational companies in the digital economy: current outlook 428
Gilberto Cárdenas Cárdenas and Paloma Tobes Portillo
24 High-skilled migrants and cross-border innovation: a multi-level
approach to international business policymaking 445
Vittoria G. Scalera and Alessandra Perri
25 Diversity, inclusion and international business policy 466
Andri Georgiadou
26 Systemic challenges and new policy directions in the energy transition 477
Anna Kehl and Sarianna Lundan
Epilogue: reflections on international business policy, key challenges and a call
to action 495
Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Philippe Gugler and Basile de Raemy