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Cross-border acquisitions and green field investments

Why host country resist cross-border acquisitions, instead of the green field investments? Explain your point of view?

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Host country tends to view the green field investments as generating the new production facilities and new job opportunities. On the other hand, cross-border acquisitions may be viewed as the foreign takeover of the existing domestic firms, instead of creating the new job opportunities.

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