Project Description
This project focuses on the international expansion of Indian multinational enterprises through foreign direct investment (FDI). As part of this project, the SRS will work on data collection and cleaning. Specifically, the students will work on identifying the locations of the various foreign subsidiaries of the Indian firms. This data is available in raw form from the PROWESS database and the students will have to input the cleaned data into Excel.
Prerequisites
Understanding of basic data collection using Excel.
Special Comments
During summer of 2025, the students will be able to do this work remotely, if needed. The student has an option to continue working on the project in Fall 2025 or Winter 2026 as part of a Directed Independent Research course. If the student is engaged and makes significant contributions to the manuscript, during the research process, they may be to invited join as a co-author.
Project Information (subject to change)
Estimated Start Date: 6/2/2025
Estimated End Date: 8/8/2025
Estimated Project Duration: 10 weeks
Maximum Number of Students Sought: 3
Research Location: Remote
Contact Information: Pooja Thakur-Wernz (email: pthakur-wernz@wlu.edu)