Influence of location factors on establishment and ownership of foreign investments: The case of the Japanese manufacturing firms  Europe

Influence of location factors on establishment and ownership of foreign investments: The case of the Japanese manufacturing firms in Europe. .作者:Somlev, Ilian P.1
Hoshino, Yasuo2 hosnino@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp.
来源:International Business Review; Oct2005, Vol. 14 Issue 5, p577-598, 22p.
文献类型:Article.
主题语:*MANUFACTURING industries
*INTERNATIONAL business enterprises
*SUBSIDIARY corporations
*PARENT companies.
地理术语:JAPAN
EUROPE.
作者提供的关键字:Europe
Internationalisation
Location factors.
NAICS/Industry Codes :551114 Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices.
摘要:Abstract: We test the hypothesis that location factors have strong predictive power for mode of establishment and ownership choice of MNEs, by controlling for parent experience and capabilities in a sample of 751 manufacturing subsidiaries of 405 Japanese MNEs. In the European context of few ownership restrictions we find that host competitiveness, host culture type, and industrial growth are the most appropriate location predictors for entry mode. We create a profile of joint venture, full acquisition and wholly owned greenfield modes and reveal how different strategic contexts interact with location factors to determine the MNE expansion approach. Our results imply that location variables are important determinants of expansion strategy, indispensable in analysing subsidiaries of MNEs even in hosts with stable political environment. [Copyright &y& Elsevier].
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作者单位:1Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba-Shi, Ibaraki-ken, 305-8573, Japan
2Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba-Shi, Ibaraki-Ken, 305-8573, Japan.

EBSCO库里面怎么都没有原文呢？只有这些，不好意思哈