Private Telecommunications Investment in Emerging Economies: Comparing the Latin American and Asian Experience

Abstract

Using a proprietary database of telecommunications projects in emerging markets, we investigate key location characteristics of private infrastructure projects in Latin America and Asia. We identify economic, institutional, sectoral, and cultural variables that influence project structure, and compare these environmental and structural characteristics between and within our focal regions. We find that investment projects in Latin America and Asia differ along a number of dimensions and that countries that are successful in attracting projects within regions demonstrate distinct environmental features that appear to draw that investment. We suggest that a contingency perspective is useful for understanding how different regions and countries offer advantages in some areas to compensate for liabilities in others.

Citation

Doh, J.P. and Teegen, H.J. (2003), "Private Telecommunications Investment in Emerging Economies: Comparing the Latin American and Asian Experience", Management Research, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 9-26. https://doi.org/10.1108/15365430380000515