Amazon’s HQ2 Site Selection Criteria: The New ‘Gold Standard’ in FDI Decision-Making

Braumann, Alfried

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dc.contributor.author	Braumann, Alfried	de
dc.date.accessioned	2020-10-20T06:57:10Z
dc.date.available	2020-10-20T06:57:10Z
dc.date.issued	2020	de
dc.identifier.issn	2183-7635	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/70192
dc.description.abstract	In 2017–2018, Seattle-based Tech behemoth Amazon executed a highly publicised location-finding process for a $5 billion investment project, dubbed ‘HQ2’. Owing to the combination of high investment volume and the company’s unique public exposure, the HQ2 process is on course to becoming a basic yardstick for future foreign direct investment (FDI) projects all over the world. This article compiles the company’s previously unpublished site selection criteria and develops an evidence-based system of investment decision arguments which is employed to test the currently dominant approaches in location decision theory - behavioural, neoclassical, and institutional. Our results identify gaps vis-à-vis this emerging ‘Gold Standard’ and we propose the addition of a fourth, project-oriented approach to theory to fill the detected shortcomings. Furthermore, this system equips policymakers with a tool to evaluate their investment attraction strategies based on the decision criteria extracted from the HQ2 process.	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Städtebau, Raumplanung, Landschaftsgestaltung	de
dc.subject.ddc	Landscaping and area planning	en
dc.subject.other	Amazon; HQ2; economic policy; foreign direct investment; impact assessment; local economic development; location decision; policy; urban development	de
dc.title	Amazon’s HQ2 Site Selection Criteria: The New ‘Gold Standard’ in FDI Decision-Making	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.identifier.url	https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/3207	de
dc.source.journal	Urban Planning
dc.source.volume	5	de
dc.publisher.country	PRT
dc.source.issue	3	de
dc.subject.classoz	Raumplanung und Regionalforschung	de
dc.subject.classoz	Area Development Planning, Regional Research	en
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0	en
internal.status	formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen	de
dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.source.pageinfo	403-417	de
internal.identifier.classoz	20700
internal.identifier.journal	794
internal.identifier.document	32
internal.identifier.ddc	710
dc.source.issuetopic	Planning for Local Economic Development: Research into Policymaking and Practice	de
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v5i3.3207	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
internal.identifier.licence	16
internal.identifier.pubstatus	1
internal.identifier.review	1
internal.dda.reference	https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/oai/@@oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3207
ssoar.urn.registration	false	de

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