碩士 / 國立暨南國際大學 / 國際企業學系 / 90 / To develop foreign subsidiaries, MNCs must put in a certain amount of resources. However, MNCs may decrease their foreign market commitments due to operational difficulties or other strategic concerns.
This study tries to investigate what factors would cause firms increase or decrease foreign market commitment. The discussion is based on observations of changes in foreign outward investments. To sum up, this study tries to answer following questions: (1)What factors cause firms to increase their foreign their foreign market commitment? (2)What factors cause firms to decrease their foreign their foreign market commitment? (3)Do the factors in (1) differ from factors in (2)? Why are they different?
According to the empirical results, factors including firms’ performance, organizational slack, R&D intensity, domestic industry growth rate, industries of outward investment and culture distance between home and host country, do influence a firm to increase their foreign market commitment. The factors that affect a firm to increase or decrease their foreign market commitment may not the same.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/090NCNU0320017 |
Date | January 2002 |
Creators | Lung, Feng-Chun, 龍鳳君 |
Contributors | Chung, Hsien-Jui, Chen, Chun-Chung, 鍾憲瑞, 陳俊忠 |
Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
Language | zh-TW |
Detected Language | English |
Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
Format | 70 |
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