Saul Estrin

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the impact of market-supporting institutions on business strategies by analyzing the entry strategies of foreign investors entering emerging economies and show how resource-seeking strategies are pursued using different entry modes in different institutional contexts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the determinants of FDI from Western countries, mainly in the European Union (EU), to Central and Eastern European ones were studied using a panel dataset of bilateral flows of foreign direct investment (FDI).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China and find that privatization to foreign owners results in a rapid improvement in performance of firms, while performance effects of privatizing to domestic owners are less impressive and vary across regions, coinciding with differences in policies and institutional development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate what we have learned to date about the effects of privatization from the experiences during the last fifteen to twenty years in the postcommunist (transition) economies and, where relevant, China.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of different dimensions of the newly created institutional framework in East European transition economies on foreign direct investment (FDI) was analyzed using a dataset detailing FDI flows from individual market economies to transition ones.