Comparative Analysis: Across Cases, Categories, and Extension of OLI Framework Under Industry 4.0

Abstract

Inviting foreign direct investment by any nation garners the benefits of spill-over effects across sectors, and industries under industry revolution era 4.0. The current study explores the key factors that shall be sufficiently pursued in order to assign relevance among the different factors that facilitate FDI via corporates in an industrialized economy. Given this background, this chapter aims to summarize the findings of FDI OLI factor framework over other factors such as ease of doing business, exchange rate volatility to understand and evaluate the relevant factors behind the international positioning of com panies across industries and categories in the era of industry revolution. The authors have conducted it by performing a comparative analysis across the companies and categories in the current study. The analysis is not limited to comparison; it also focuses on patterns across companies under the industrialized era. The chapter concludes with key inferences on the applicability of OLI factors with an indication of the future scope of further studies to promote Industry 4.0.