Factors of Oversea Direct Investment Valued by Different Groups of Manufacturers. / 製造業海外直接投資區位選擇決定因素之探討-以中國、美國及東協五國為例

碩士 / 東吳大學 / 經濟學系 / 91 / Abstract
Globalization in today’s business trend and climate has significantly shortened distance among countries. As a result, resources sharing and reallocation are being handled at a much more efficient pace with positive progress. Therefore, in moving towards business globalization, planning for business continuous and being more competitive have become the primary areas of focus for many of corporations.
The Logistic Regression Analysis made in this thesis is based upon the forecast theory stated in ‘Foreign Direct Investment’ and the 2001 survey results by Department of Statistics, Ministry of Economic Affairs, R.O.C, in which targeted at the manufacturers who have directly involvement in foreign investment. In addition, this thesis provides the comparisons and discussions of investment options that valued by different groups of investors. Below is an overview of analytical findings described in this document:
1.Unlike manufacturers who invest in Asiana (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippine, Singapore, and Thailand) areas, majority of investors who invest in China and USA have confident in local business climate and believe the environment has induced great business opportunity and potential.
2.Manufacturers who invest in China believe it is easier to obtain land in China. However, such thought is not supported by the investors who choose to invest in a different region, such as USA or Asiana.
3.Cheap labor in China is another factor that encourages foreign manufacturers for investment in China. On the other hand, labor is not a determine factor for manufacturers to invest in USA.
4.Unlike investing in USA, diminishing local business climate is one of the major factors for manufacturers to choose to invest in China and Asiana.
5.Manufacturers who invest in China have been identified to have follow trends of their Taiwanese clients to go investing in China, while manufacturers invest in USA because of the requests from their clients.
6.Majority of manufacturers who invest in China are more in the area of mass producing of final products, while semi products is more of the concentration for manufacturers who invest in Asiana.
7.Manufacturing Investors from high density of Research and Development (R&D) regions tend to invest in USA. On the other hand, less such investors choose to invest in China.
In conclusion, developing countries and well-developed countries have different factor endowments that attract and impact different groups of manufacturing investors’ decisions. Analysis described in this thesis has clearly shown that investors consider not only the pros and cons from corporation’s aspects, but also from the pros and cons of the target regions to select the final region of interests for investment.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/091SCU00389042
Date January 2003
CreatorsLin , JIh-Chieh, 林智傑
ContributorsChung , Chung-Ping, 鄭政秉
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format100

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