The Assessment of Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on a Company’s Performance in Baltic Countries
Мировая экономика и бизнес-администрирование малых и средних предприятий: 14-й Международный научный семинар 2018
Ekaterina Azarkevich, Jūlija Bistrova, Nataļja Lāce

Since 2002, the amount of foreign direct investment (further - FDI) into the developing countries has increased dramatically. The attracting such investments became one of the main target of foreign policy in number of countries. At the micro-level, FDI contained in the company’s assets might be concerned to have positive effect on company’s performance as a whole. Therefore, the scientific aim of this paper is to discover whether the companies with FDI show significantly better financial performance than the companies without FDI using the data for more than 380 companies located in Baltic countries and working mainly in the wholesales & trade and manufacturing industries. The authors used company data extracted from Amadeus database. Criteria for the company inclusion were data availability and net turnover more than 50000 euro. The methods chosen for conducting the research are mainly quantitative, including mean comparison and regression analysis. The obtained results demonstrate that consistent impact of FDI on company’s performance is not uniform in Baltic countries.


Keywords
foreign direct investment, company’s performance, Baltic countries

Azarkevich, E., Bistrova, J., Lāce, N. The Assessment of Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on a Company’s Performance in Baltic Countries. In: Мировая экономика и бизнес-администрирование малых и средних предприятий: 14-й Международный научный семинар, Belarus, Минск, 25-27 January, 2018. Минск: 2018, pp.72-79. ISBN 9789859044618.

Publication language
English (en)
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