The 45 years of foreign direct investment research: Approaches, advances and analytical areas

What are the main tenets associated with foreign direct investment ( FDI )? What research has been performed in the area of FDI to date? Which direction should research in this field proceed in the days to come? As there is no article with comprehensive coverage of all the studies on FDI , we review empirical research in this area between the years 1970 and 2014 as an attempt to answer these questions. We identify the advances and analytical...