M.Comm. / Attraction of new inward FDI globally, especially in the developing countries, is problematic. Economic development practitioners have recently started to prioritise the retention and growing of existing investments to enhance their economic development agenda. There are few studies that provide any guidance to investment aftercare practitioners faced with this alternative economic development option. The main aim of this study is to obtain a better understanding of and to investigate the relationship between investment aftercare and inward FDI in South Africa. Investment aftercare is defined as post-investment services that an investment promotion agency (IPA) can offer to existing investors (Loewendahl 2001:25). Six research questions were investigated in this study, namely, how do IPAs allocate financial and human resources to investment aftercare function in relation to other investment promotion functions? Do IPAs in South Africa have dedicated and comprehensive investment aftercare strategies and how often are they reviewing these strategies? What factors limit IPAs’ ability to provide effective investment aftercare services? What investment aftercare models are used by IPAs within South Africa? Are IPAs evaluating the impact of their investment aftercare programmes? Which government level is most appropriate to offer investment aftercare services? Both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies are used in this study to address these six research questions and theoretical frameworks are selected to define the scope of the research. A structured questionnaire was used to collate data and 30 face-to-face interviews were conducted with 16 investment aftercare practitioners and 14 investment aftercare executives from IPAs in seven of the nine provinces of South Africa.

M.Phil. / The role of foreign direct investment, in driving economic growth and development has been a contested one. There have always been views in favour of FDI and against. Foreign investment is attracted by predictable, transparent, non-discriminatory regulations of the host country. Consequently, negative administrative barriers (legal and regulatory requirements for establishing, operating and locating a business) can deter foreign investors. Administrative processes in South Africa are not consistent, efficient and transparent and they generally interfere with the operation of free markets. Theoretically, foreign investors are likely to invest in countries where administrative processes are consistent, efficient, transparent and high levels of certainty. This study‘s aims were to identify administrative barriers encountered in South Africa by foreign investor and to ascertain the levels of consistency, efficiency and transparency of administrative procedures. The study further propose solutions aimed at improving the levels of consistency, transparency and efficiency of administrative processes in order to easy, simplify or mitigate the burden of these processes. The study adopted a positivistic view and descriptive research method was employed. The survey questionnaire was used as the main data-gathering instrument for this study. The study found out that there were high levels of administrative barriers to foreign direct investment in South Africa and the processes were not consistency, efficient and transparent. The main conclusions drawn from this research were that current administrative processes to foreign direct investment are barriers to investment as they add an extra burden and cost to the investor investing in South Africa. This study proposed a multi-pronged administrative simplification strategies aimed at reducing and simplifying administrative processes.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--McGill University, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 164-180).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 166-174).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawai'i, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-97).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Colorado, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [188]-212).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 51-52).

Thesis (LL. M.)--McGill University, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-135).

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