Locational Determinants of Acquisitions from China and India:The Role of Human Capital

MNEs are increasingly seeking to augment, as well as exploit, their global competitive advantage. Foreign direct investments are being directed to augmenting the competitive ownership specific advantages of the investing companies, exploiting and accessing the capabilities, resources, markets and institutions, also known as location (L) specific advantages of particular countries, and identifying and implementing the most acceptable mode of relating these two sets of advantages (via the internalization or externalization of cross border intermediate product markets). URL: [http://www.fgks.in/IndexServer/tifac/article/128.pdf]