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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

AH - Ekonomie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název statě ve sborníku

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

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

8

Strana od-do

153-160

Název nakladatele

Mendel University of Brno

Místo vydání

Brno

Místo konání akce

Brno

Datum konání akce

1. 1. 2016

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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