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Country and Political Risk Analysis of Spanish Multinational Enterprises Using Exploratory Projection Pursuit

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Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2008 (IDEAL 2008)

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As part of a multidisciplinary research project on relevant applications of Exploratory Projection Pursuit, this study sets out to examine levels of country and political risk that are assumed by a sample of Spanish Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). It analyses information pertaining to points such as decisions over the localization of subsidiary firms in various regions across the world, the importance accorded to such decisions and the driving forces behind them. The specific variables under study are economic freedoms, perceived levels of corruption and the constraints affecting the host governments in a sample of 1773 Spanish MNE subsidiaries throughout the world. Several neural projection models are applied, and we are able to conclude that these connectionist techniques help analyse the relevant data to identify the internationalization strategies of Spanish MNEs, their underlying motives and the goals they pursue.

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  1. Department of Economics and Business Administration, University of Burgos, Spain

    Alfredo Jiménez

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Burgos, Spain, C/ Francisco de Vitoria s/n, 09006, Burgos, Spain

    Álvaro Herrero & Emilio Corchado

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  1. University of West Scotland, PA1 2BE, Paisley, Scotland

    Colin Fyfe

  2. KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

    Dongsup Kim

  3. Brain Science Research Center and Department of Bio & Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, 305-701, Daejeon, Korea

    Soo-Young Lee

  4. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, UK

    Hujun Yin

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Jiménez, A., Herrero, Á., Corchado, E. (2008). Country and Political Risk Analysis of Spanish Multinational Enterprises Using Exploratory Projection Pursuit. In: Fyfe, C., Kim, D., Lee, SY., Yin, H. (eds) Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2008. IDEAL 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5326. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88906-9_64

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