RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by: Rokko Forum / Kobe University Center for Social Systems Innovation)
| Date&Time | Monday, July 24, 2017, 3:00pm-4:30pm |
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| Place | Meeting room, Main Building, Kobe University (2nd Floor) |
| Intended Audience | Faculties, Graduate Students, Undergraduates, and People with Equivalent Knowledge |
| Language | English |
| Note | Copies of the paper will be available at Office of Promoting Research Collaboration. |
3:00pm-4:30pm
| Speaker | Keijiro OTSUKA |
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| Affiliation | Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University |
| Speaker | Yoshimichi MURAKAMI |
| Affiliation | RIEB, Kobe University |
| Topic | A Review of the Literature on GVC and FDI: Towards an Integrated Approach |
| Abstract | Although information spillovers from internationally dispersed activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in developing countries are subjects of the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI) and global value chain (GVC), FDI and GVC studies are carried out independently and separately. While GVC studies are largely descriptive and conceptual, FDI studies are quantitative with focus on the impact of FDI on productivity of local enterprises in developing countries. However, a review of the literature on GVC and FDI studies shows that the two strands of studies are commonly interested not only in spillovers of technological and managerial knowledge but also in absorptive capacity of domestic firms and backward linkages between foreign firms and domestic firms. Therefore, this literature review argues that there is large room for empirical research to make new contributions to the literature on the impacts of FDI on industrial development in developing courtiers by incorporating the insightful perspective of GVC approach into empirically rigorous FDI studies. |