Factors Affect Investment Amount and Location Choice: Evidence from Taiwanese Enterprises’ Investment in Mainland China—the Case of the Economic Zone on the West Coast of the Taiwan Strait. / 台商赴大陸投資額與投資區位因素之實證研究-以海峽西岸經濟區為例

碩士 / 中原大學 / 企業管理研究所 / 96 / The major purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of location choice of Taiwanese enterprises’ investment in the economic zone on the west coast of the Taiwan strait in Mainland China with an emphasis on the macroeconomics advantages of individual city among the economic zone and different characteristics of every investment enterprise. The study period is 1996 to 2006. More specifically, this study treats three subjects.
In the subject 1, we set Taiwan enterprises’ FDI in the economic zone on the west coast of the Taiwan strait in Mainland China to be dependent variables and the location factors from many aspects of every cities to be independent variable of the first model’s setting. We use regression method to establish this emphasis by SPSS program, and use panel data technique by E-views program to analysis the model. Major findings of this subject include: between different variables and FDI flows have time lag effects;the plan 10th five-years, Beijing hold the Olympic games, and the degree of infrastructure of the cities influence the FDI flow of the region;the labor cost is an important factor to influence Taiwan enterprises’ investment amount.
According to the subject 2,we set Taiwan enterprises’ FDI in the economic zone on the west coast of the Taiwan strait in Mainland China to be dependent variables and the Taiwan enterprises’ characteristics in operation to be independent variable. We use multiple regression analysis to examine the relationship between dependent variables and independent variable. We find the scale and experiences of the enterprises influence the Taiwan enterprises’ FDI of the region;the 5th industries of the region are the Electrics, Commercial and Transportation, Plastics, Food and Textile industries.
In the subject 3, we set the location choices of Taiwan enterprises in the region(Xiamen or not) to be dependent variables and the Taiwan enterprises’ characteristics in operation to be independent variable. We find that at present, most Taiwan enterprises of sole proprietorship and larger scale invest in Xiamen city. The main industries in Xiamen city are the Electrics, Commercial and Transportation, and Textile industries.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/096CYCU5457019
Date January 2008
CreatorsHui-Chun Lai, 賴惠君
ContributorsJan-Yan Lin, 林震岩
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format111

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