Triage comments received in recent seminars

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1. I was wondering whether the theory of principle agent could be used to explain the fact that the CEO in charge of the medical sector remained a person of Hungarian origin? It takes a lot of networking and accumulated good-will to manage the sector e.g. relations with hospitals, doctors and nurses and government officials in charge of health policy and health tourism?
2. FDI can take different forms, from traditional equity based and legal presence in Hungary (legal in the sense of establishing a company based on Hungarian business regulations) and it could take non-equity forms of investment where the foreign partner does not appear as official owner of a company, hence does not have the responsibilities of a traditional company owner. May be there are investors who do not want to become official owners for instance for political reasons?
3. It could be interesting to do additional research to find out whether Hungarian expatriates are more successful investors than non-Hungarian investors?
4. In regard to negotiations, the above point might also be useful to take into account should you analyse the negotiation process of foreign investors who are acquiring Hungarian companies.
   I have taught, published and done research on negotiations also on joint ventures. You might find the case examples of interest that are part of a Special Issue of the European Journal of International Management
   http://www.csend.org/publications/negotiation-a-diplomacy/507-european-journal-of-international-management-thematic-issue-on-negotiating-international-strategic-alliances-examples-of-successes-and-failures-2019-vol-13-no-5-guest-editors-prof-michael-jeive-and-prof-dr-raymond-saner?highlight=WyJzdHJhdGVnaWMiXQ==