Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Regional Employment and Cultural Distance of Investors

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Regional Employment and Cultural Distance of Investors

Original language description

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of all multinational companies that localized its foreign direct investment into Plzeň region. These analyzed multination companies gained the institutional support in the form of investment incentives. The paper focuses on the influence quantification of these business subjects on the regional labour market. Primal research question is whether and to what extent do multinational corporations contribute to the regional employment. Except of this quantification, the paper concerns the determination of the staffing structure of jobs in these firms; respectively, in what proportion are new created jobs multinational companies engaged with local inhabitants or foreigners. Based on the comparative analysis of data from the companies` annual reports and statistics of the Czech statistical office and CzechInvest from 1999-2014, there is clear evidence that foreign direct investment has created 8,5 thousand job positions in average and they have been filled from 96,2 % by local inhabitants. These calculations are further supplemented by investigation of cultural distance as a factor influencing decision of the investment localisation. From computation of cultural distances including six cultural dimensions from Hofstede´s study and measured between the Czech Republic and seven source countries of investment; the highest cultural distance was found out between the Czech Republic and United States, Great Britain, Austria and Japan. Contrary, the lowest cultural distance among source countries was investigated between the Czech Republic in relation to Italy and Spain.

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AH - Economics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

In Proceedings of the Articles from the 7th Annual International Scientific Conference "Region in the development of society 2016"

ISBN

978-80-7509-459-9

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Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

153-160

Publisher name

Mendel University of Brno

Place of publication

Brno

Event location

Brno

Event date

Jan 1, 2016

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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