Between Growth and National Security in Host Countries: FDI Regulation and Chinese Outward Investments in Australia’s Critical Infrastructure

Heim, Irina; Ribberink, Natalia

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“…In recent years, securitization theory has been applied in many policy fields from migration (Bourbeau, 2017) to climate change (von Lucke, 2020), from foreign investment (Heim and Ribberink, 2021) to foreign interference (Chubb, 2022; Jackson, 2022). I discuss next how the securitization literature has been used by scholars to consider how governments respond to foreign interference.…”

Section: Securitization In Theory and In Practicementioning

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The End of an Era for Foreign Lobbying? The Emergence of Foreign Transparency Laws in Washington, Canberra and Brussels

Korkea‐aho

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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The lobbying of other countries' political and legal elites has emerged as a security risk globally. The securitization of foreign lobbying has prompted the adoption of specialized legal regimes, that is, foreign transparency laws, to enable the scrutiny of how foreign actors lobby. This article analyzes and compares such laws in the United States, Australia and the European Union (EU) with respect to three issues: (1) the definition of a foreign actor, (2) the definition of a type of foreign lobbying and (3) the definition of a protected normative good. While the impetus to legislative reform has often rested on a concern with authoritarian governments, the foreign transparency laws capture diverse kinds of foreign influence activities and actors. They may thus catch in their nets actors or types of influence never intended to be caught in the first place. This has particularly significant implications for the EU as a polity and foreign policy actor.

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Section: Securitization In Theory and In Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

The End of an Era for Foreign Lobbying? The Emergence of Foreign Transparency Laws in Washington, Canberra and Brussels

Korkea‐aho

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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Uncover the heterogeneity of EMNE's institutional difficulty perception and its behavioral orientation – evidence of Chinese MNEs' FDI in Taiwan

Yeh,

Hsiao,

Gebhadt

2023

IJOEM

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PurposeThe existing research on institutional distance implicitly posits the monotonic effect of contextual differences on the multinational enterprise (MNE) behaviors (e.g. entry mode, research and development (R&D) investment and subsidiary reverse knowledge transfer). Namely, MNEs from the same home to the same host countries are thought to have homogenous perceptions on the institutional influences and thus behave similarly. However, the authors argue that MNEs, due to their different performance aspirations in host countries, will have heterogenous perceptions on such contextual influences and thereafter behave differently.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on the behavioral theory of the firm and employing a unique sample comprised of 140 Chinese MNEs' foreign direct investments (FDIs) in Taiwan in 2017, the authors developed and tested the hypotheses.FindingsThe authors found that the emerging-market MNEs' (EMNEs’) perceptions of higher local institutional difficulties will be strengthened when their local performances are below their aspiration levels, making them more risk-taking. Nevertheless, EMNEs' local experiences and local equity-based partnerships will mitigate such negative perceptions, mitigating their risk-taking orientation.Originality/valueThe empirical findings make contributes to the international business (IB) literature by extending knowledge on the determinants and conditions of the heterogeneity in EMNEs' behavioral orientations when in face of the same institutional distance. The authors also provide managerial implications by showing that EMNEs' firm-specific resources (i.e. local experience and local equity-based partnership) will alter their perceptions of local institutional difficulties, leading to different behavioral orientations.

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“Sitting on the Fence” or Finding a “Dynamic Balance” in a Third-Party Country's Responses to the Us- China Rivalry in FDI: A New Zealand Perspective

Gao,

Ren,

Guo

2023

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Between Growth and National Security in Host Countries: FDI Regulation and Chinese Outward Investments in Australia’s Critical Infrastructure

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

The End of an Era for Foreign Lobbying? The Emergence of Foreign Transparency Laws in Washington, Canberra and Brussels

The End of an Era for Foreign Lobbying? The Emergence of Foreign Transparency Laws in Washington, Canberra and Brussels

Uncover the heterogeneity of EMNE's institutional difficulty perception and its behavioral orientation – evidence of Chinese MNEs' FDI in Taiwan

“Sitting on the Fence” or Finding a “Dynamic Balance” in a Third-Party Country's Responses to the Us- China Rivalry in FDI: A New Zealand Perspective

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