Outward FDI from Slovenia and its policy context

Jaklič, Andreja (author)

High export orientation originating from a small domestic market and experience in outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) from the pre-transitionperiod helped Slovenian enterprises to internationalize early onafter their countryŽs independence and separation from the former Republic of Yugoslavia, making Slovenia one of the first outward investors among transition economies in South-East Europe. This facilitated a reorientation ofinternational trade and investment toward developed economies after the lossof the Yugoslav market triggered by Slovenian independence. OFDI flows increased rapidly after the end of the 1990s. Following the global financial and economic crisis, OFDI flows fell significantly in 2009 and 2010, and in 2010, the OFDI stock decreased for the first time since 2000. With the help ofOFDI, SloveniaŽs enterprises have grown considerably beyond the constraints imposed by the country's dynamic, but small, economy. Their foreign expansion is in line with national strategic priorities that include entrepreneurship, business internationalization and innovation

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 2.13 - Treatise, Preliminary Study, Study
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Place of publishing: New York
• Publisher: Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, Columbia University
• Year: 2011
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-45294
• UDC: 658.152
• COBISS.SI-ID: 30715229
• Publication date in RUL: 10.07.2015