The economics of large-scale infrastructure FDI: The case of project finance

RJ Sawant - Journal of International Business Studies, 2010 - Springer
In this paper a theoretical framework is developed to explain why multinational enterprises
invest in infrastructure through the mode of project finance (PF) instead of using corporate …

The effect of interpersonal political embeddedness on firm internationalization scope

RJ Sawant, L Nachum… - British Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
How does a firm's political embeddedness affect its internationalization strategy? Extant
research shows conflicting effects, treating embeddedness as a unitary construct. We contend …

Valorisation of End-of-Life tyres for generating valuable resources under circular economy

A Sharma, RJ Sawant, A Sharma, JB Joshi, RK Jain… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Waste Tyre Pyrolysis is an efficient way to extract valuable products from the end-of-life tyres.
The present work deals with the comprehensive analytical studies of the waste tyres by …

Asset specificity and corporate political activity in regulated industries

RJ Sawant - Academy of Management Review, 2012 - journals.aom.org
I examine corporate political activity in regulated industries, which is conceptualized in the
literature as transactions in a political marketplace. I incorporate transaction costs in political …

Emerging market multinationals' firm-specific advantages, institutional distance, and foreign acquisition location choice

BE James, RJ Sawant, JS Bendickson - International Business Review, 2020 - Elsevier
How do emerging market multinational enterprises’ (EMNEs’) firm-specific advantages (FSAs)
drive their foreign acquisition location choice? We theorize EMNE FSAs as important …

[BOOK][B] Infrastructure Investing: Managing risks & rewards for pensions, insurance companies & endowments

RJ Sawant - 2010 - books.google.com
… Financial markets researcher Rajeev Sawant has been analyzing infrastructure investments,
funds, and project financing programs for nearly five years, and now, with this book, he …

Emerging market infrastructure project bonds: Their risks and returns

RJ Sawant - Journal of Structured Finance, 2010 - search.proquest.com
This article analyzes returns from portfolios of emerging market infrastructure project bonds
and finds that infrastructure bonds offer low volatility but also low returns. Such an analysis …

Contractual discrimination in franchise relationships

RJ Sawant, M Hada, SJ Blanchard - Journal of Retailing, 2021 - Elsevier
Franchisors often modify the contract terms offered to prospective (new) franchisees – to
incentivize growth in the number of franchisees, to access capital, or to improve their financial …

Norte o sul/sur? Multilatinas' choice of developed versus developing countries for foreign acquisitions

BE James, RJ Sawant - Journal of Business Research, 2019 - Elsevier
We develop novel theory and empirical evidence on multilatinas to understand the determinants
of their choice between acquisitions in developed countries (“Northern” acquisitions) …

The benefits of organizational inertia: Evidence from franchising during the great recession

RJ Sawant, M Hada, SJ Blanchard - Academy of Management …, 2015 - journals.aom.org
The recent US recession (Dec 2007-Jun 2009) created an environmental crisis for organizations.
Most research indicates that organizations that respond to crises by making structural …