1、2900单词, 16500英文字符, 中文 5600字 文献出处: Guilherme Pires, John Stanton & Ioannis-Dionysios Salavrakos. The Interaction of Foreign Direct Investment with Electronic Commerce in Less Developed Countries, Forum for Social Economics, 2010, 127-143. 原文 The Interaction of Foreign Direct Investment with Electroni
2、c Commerce in Less Developed Countries Guilherme D. Pires & John Stanton & Ioannis Abstract This paper argues that the international growth of e-commerce (whether businessbusiness, businessconsumer or consumerbusiness) can increase a critical technology infrastructure gap that disadvantages less-dev
3、eloped countries (LDCs) in their future e-commerce participation. This gap is linked to the type as well as the volume of foreign direct investment (FDI) which economies at different levels of development attract. The macro technical, legal and socio-economic problems that entwine FDI inflow and e-c
4、ommerce growth in LDCs, reducing e-commerce attractiveness and also making FDI less attractive, are classified. Governments must recognise this interdependence, pin-point the types of macro constraints operating in their particular economy that curb FDI in e-commerce attracting investment and priori
5、tise the desirability and incentives offered to the various types of FDI infrastructure. Keywords: E-commerce. Foreign direct investment. Infrastructure. Information 献 communication technologies, Development. Less-developed-countries Introduction This paper contends that to avoid a potentially growi
6、ng disparity in e-commerce participation, LDCs need to address a specific range of technical, legal and socio-economic constraints hindering their e-commerce participation on an equal footing with ICT infrastructural issues and their links to FDI. Addressing the growth of e-commerce for an LDC is tied to macro environmental constraints that shape the level and type of FDI in that country. Failure to address these constraints can act as a barrier for inflows of FDI and hence for e-comme