Former research on entry strategies are generally focused on finding the determining factors for MNCs' entry timing or entry mode. Albeit MNCs' ultimate reason of investing in foreign markets are gaining profits, number of papers discussing MNCs' strategies and the performance of their subsidiary are far away from representing its importance ¡V especially in the realm of service industries. Meanwhile, along with advanced technology and the trend of globalization, international trades are flourishing. Financial firms are as well in the bloom due to their job as being capital borrowers and lenders. In Taiwan, since the government allowed foreign banks to invest in 1964, foreign banks contributed much in breeding financial innovation and training professionals. Their performances are as well benchmarks for domestic banks. Combined with aforementioned backgrounds and motives, this thesis aims at discussing the relation between the resources and decisions of the foreign banks' parent firms and its Taiwan branches' performance in order to figure out the key factor affecting the performance of these banks' Taiwan branches. Thus, this study will serve foreign banks' Taiwan branches as samples and list resource condition variables of their parent banks according to OLI framework. The entry timing of these foreign banks is served as the strategy behavior variable. Via analyzing sample data before and after the Financial Holding Company Act and Merger and Acquisition of Financial Institutions Act with multiple regressions, this study intends to confirm the key factor affecting the performance of these banks' Taiwan branches. According to the results, the key factor would be entry timing. That is, regardless of the environmental challenges posed against these banks, the first mover advantage dominates in explaining the performance of these banks' Taiwan branches.

Les partenariats inter-entreprises continuent d'être une tendance majeure dans le contexte B2B. Les entreprises cherchent des projets de collaboration pour pénétrer les marchés étrangers, pour combiner les ressources, partager les coûts et les risques, et créer des synergies dans un environnement de plus en plus concurrentiel. Ainsi, les impacts du pays hôte, et les caractéristiques de l'entreprise sur le choix du mode d'entrée ont été largement étudiées dans la littérature. Les ressources du pays hôte, sa culture et ses risques, couplés avec les particularités de chaque mode d'entrée, nécessitent plus d'enquêtes ancrées dans la littérature sur le mode d'entrée. Puisant dans le cadre OLI, cette étude porte sur les entreprises conjointes (JVI) et analyse l'impact des avantages de propriété et de la localisation sur le niveau de contrôle (par exemple, sur le niveau de l'internalisation) dans un JVI entre la Syrie et l'Iran, dans l'industrie automobile. Les résultats indiquent une relation positive entre les avantages de propriété et le niveau de contrôle. Il est également constaté que les entreprises tendent à privilégier un mode de contrôle plus élevé lorsque le pays d'accueil offre de meilleurs avantages de localisation. / Inter-firm partnerships continue to be a major trend in the B2B context. Companies are looking for collaborative projects to penetrate foreign markets, to combine resources, share costs and risks, and create synergies in an increasingly competitive. Thus, the impacts of host country and firm characteristics the choice of entry mode have been widely studied in the literature. The resources of the host country, its culture, these risks. Are the possibilities, coupled with the peculiarities of each mode of entry, requiring more focused investigation in the literature on user input. Drawing the OLI framework, this study is on joint ventures (JVI) and analyzes the impact of the benefits of ownership and location of the business decision on the level of control (eg, the level of internalization) JVI in between Syria and Iran in the automotive industry. The results indicate a positive relationship between the benefits of ownership and control level. It is also found that companies tend to focus on higher control mode when the host country offers the best location advantages.