Attitudes of states' economic and industrial development advisors toward foreign investments
The general purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the effects of inward foreign investments' characteristics on the nature and intensity of the attitudes of host nationals in an advanced country. Specifically, interest was focused on the following aspects of inward foreign investments in the US: (a) national origin of investments (countries included are Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, England, West Germany, Holland, and Japan); (b) types of foreign-investment operation (types of investment included are farming, manufacturing, petroleum, real estate, and retailing); (c) foreign investors' forms of entry into the US; and (d) extent of foreign ownership. The study also investigated any variations in the attitudes prevalent among the host nationals toward the four aspects of foreign investments, based on demographic variables: age, religion, ethnic background, personal contact with particular foreigners, overseas travel experience in general and to specific countries, place of birth based on geographic and level of income regions, geographic mobility, place of work based on geographic and level of income regions, occupation, education, and political philosophy. The objective here also includes, as a corollary, an examination of the existence of stereotype, prejudice, and ethnocentric tendencies. A number of implications were also revealed by the study and discussed in the dissertation. These were related to theory of host national attitudes towad foreign investments, present and potential foreign investors in the US, and US public-policy makers and politicians (both at the local and federal levels).
- OSTI ID:
- 6383248
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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