The complementarity of human capital and language capital in foreign direct investment

Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 391 - 404
Published: Apr 1, 2019
Abstract
Integrating the literature on language-MNEs (multinational enterprises) in international business and economic theory of human capital (HC), we establish an analytical framework to systematically examine how HC and language capital (LC) jointly determine foreign direct investment (FDI). We contend that the extent to which MNEs can leverage HC in a host country for FDI depends on LC. Based on an extensive bilateral dataset covering 3315 country...
Paper Details
Title
The complementarity of human capital and language capital in foreign direct investment
Published Date
Apr 1, 2019
Volume
28
Issue
2
Pages
391 - 404
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