Inward investment, employment and government policies in Wales

This empirical paper examines the links between multinational enterprises’ countries of origin, types of inbound foreign direct investment (IFDI), related capital investment levels and the resultant effects on regional employment in Wales, a peripheral region of the UK. Longitudinal, official data are used to examine the relationships between these variables, making use of statistical techniques. The findings are used to make recommendations for inward investment policy development in Wales, focusing on the targeting of IFDI from those countries of origin whose multinational enterprises appear likely to contribute most to the future creation and safeguarding of regional employment

Lean production and labour Lessons from Japanese investment in the UK

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Exploring the regional distribution of inbound foreign direct investment in the UK in theory and practice: evidence from a five-region study

This paper examines the main factors that attract inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) at the UK regional level using econometric data from five sample UK regions (the South East, the West Midlands, the North West, Wales, and Scotland) broadly representing the country's regional economic divide. The findings indicate that regional and national (but not European Union-level) factors, linked to several underlying strategic determinants, help determine the regional distribution of inbound foreign direct investment, and its inter-regional variation. The paper concludes that governmental policy-makers at the national and regional levels can have an important role to play in drawing targeted foreign direct investment inflows to the UK region