Determinants that attract and discourage foreign direct investment in GCC countries: Do macroeconomic and environmental factors matter?

• Majed Alharthi ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mdalharthi@kau.edu.sa

  Affiliation Finance Department, College of Business, King Abdulaziz University, Rabigh, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3553-243X

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• Md Mazharul Islam,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Finance Department, College of Business, King Abdulaziz University, Rabigh, Saudi Arabia

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• Hawazen Alamoudi,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marketing Department, College of Business, King Abdulaziz University, Rabigh, Saudi Arabia

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• Md Wahid Murad

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UniSA Education Futures, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2486-2081

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