Professor Nigel Driffield

Career

Nigel Driffield’s main research interests are economics of international business with a focus on the nexus between firm strategy, such as location decisions, and local responses seeking to influence this in both the home and the host country. He is on several editorial review boards and also works with a number of local and national stakeholders on issues relating to inward investment and economic development.

Research projects

• Exploring the relationship between supply chain productivity, resilience and spillovers
• Inward investment and productivity in a post-Covid, post-Brexit setting

Research output

• The UK’s Foreign Investment Position post Brexit and COVID: Briefing 1
• The UK’s Foreign Investment Position post Brexit and COVID: Briefing 2
• The UK’s Foreign Investment Position post Brexit and COVID: Briefing 3
• The UK’s Foreign Investment Position post Brexit and COVID: Briefing 4
• A framework for understanding transformation FDI
• Between a rock and a hard place: Trade offs between prosperity and inclusivity when implementing regional growth policies
• Inward investment and UK productivity
• Leveraging the benefits of location decisions into performance: A global view from matched MNEs
• Understanding productivity: Organisational Capital perspectives
• Mechanisms of metagovernance as structural challenges to Levelling Up in England
• Multinational enterprises and the welfare state
• The Midlands’ Productivity Challenge: Exploring the issues