"Incentives to Attract FDI: Evidence from the Łódź Province"

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Spis treści

Preface 7

1.1. Foreign direct investment as a way to business internationalisation 17

Chapter 1. What do theory and empirical studies teach us about supporting foreign investors 17

1.1.1. Internationalisation and foreign direct investment: overview of definitions 18

1.1.2. Reasons behind making foreign direct investment 21

1.2. Foreign direct investment effect on the economy 25

1.2.1. Host country economy 25

1.2.2. Home country economy 31

1.3. Location determinants 34

1.4. FDI support rationale 38

2.1. Scope of research, methodology and selection of research sample 51

Chapter 2. Location Premises: Perspective of Enterprises with Foreign Capital in Łódź Region 51

2.2. Research sample profile 55

2.3. Foreign capital in enterprises 62

2.4. Export operations of foreign investors 65

2.5. Import operations of foreign investors 71

2.6. Competitive locations 73

2.7. Importance of institutions for location selection 74

2.8. Premises for location choices 81

2.8.1. Distribution of answers and basic descriptive statistics 81

2.8.2. Overall ranking of grounds for location selection 89

2.8.3. Differentiation of grounds for location selection based on overall ranking 90

2.8.4. Differentiation of grounds for location selection based on the Mann-Whitney test 99

2.8.5. Detailed rankings of grounds for location selection 101

3.1. The role of incentives in location choices 109

Chapter 3. Investment Incentives: Perspective of Enterprises with Foreign Capital in the Łódź Region 109

3.1.1. Overall ranking of investment incentives 110

3.1.2. Differentiated importance of investment incentives based on overall ranking 112

3.1.3. Differentiated importance of investment incentives based on the Mann-Whitney test 120

3.1.4. Detailed ranking of investment incentives 122

3.2. Special economic zones 125

3.3. The role of State aid in making location choices 125

3.4. Post-investment assistance 128

3.5. Location factors and the use of State aid 131

3.6. Investment incentives and the use of State aid 135

Conclusion 139

Bibliography 145

List of tables 175

List of figures 179

About author 181