博士 / 中國文化大學 / 國際企業管理研究所 / 90 / In 1990s, about one third of all international trade occurs through intra-firm trade within MNEs. Intra-frim trade is expected to keep growing. One purpose of this study is to test the relationships between the motives (i.e., seeking for resources, mar-kets, efficiency and strategic assets) of the multinational enterprise (MNE) for foreign direct investments (FDIs) and intra-firm trade, with an aim to add to the explanation power of existing literature about the causes of intra-firm trade. The other purpose is to better understand how the motives of the MNE for FDI influence the direction of in-ternational trade through intra-firm trade by decomposing the effect of intra-firm trade into four sub-effects (i.e., export replacement, reverse import, lead export and import exchange).
This study used judgement sampling to collect data from 258 companies in infor-mation and electronic industries in Taiwan. These companies were listed in either TSE or OTC in 2001. The companies who did not have subsidiaries abroad at the time of survey were screened out by a telephone interview. Two hundred and twenty-six com-panies were retained and a questionnaire was sent to each company. After two fol-low-up mailings were made, one hundred and thirty questionnaires were returned, of which 92 were valid. The return rate was 40.7%.
The results show that, the motives of the MNE for foreign direct investments sig-nificant explain the variation of the MNE’s intra-firm trade. In addition, the explana-tion power of motives is larger than that of the MNE’s characteristics (i.e., multination-ality, the intensity of research and development). Looking at the scope of the influ-ences of each motive on the effects of intra-firm trade, the motive for seeking for mar-kets has the largest scope of influences, followed by efficiency seeking, resource seek-ing and, finally, strategic assets seeking.
Based on the research results, this study discusses how foreign direct investments under different motives influence the international trade, such as balance of payments and frictions of international trade, and economic welfare, such as deindustrialization, of parent countries through intra-firm trade effects. Directions of further studies are also suggested.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/090PCCU0321004 |
| Date | January 2001 |
| Creators | Chien-Heng Chou, 周建亨 |
| Contributors | Tsai-May Lin, 林彩梅 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 141 |
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