The right tree for the right bird: Location choice decision of Taiwanese firms’ FDI in China and Vietnam

Determinants of MNC’s Knowledge Inflows to Subsidiaries: A Perspective on Internalization Advantages

“…Taiwanese researchers often encounter the problem of a low response rate when conducting business surveys (Chen 2004;Lei and Chen 2011). Hence, this study adopted two procedures to increase both the response rate and the quality of returned questionnaires, thereby strengthening the validity of the research data and subsequent analyses.…”

Efficiency-Seeking Emerging Market Firms: Resources and Location Choices

“…Over a period of time, the literature has grown to include the location choices of MNCs from various countries such as the United Kingdom, China, Germany, Japan, Norway, Vietnam, the United States, and some Latin American and African countries (Flores & Aguilera, ; Globerman & Shapiro, ; Ibeh, Wilson, & Chizema, ; Lattemann, Alon, Chang, Fetscherin, & McIntyre, ; Nachum & Zaheer, ). These studies focus primarily on developed‐country firms with only a few investigations into the location choices of EMFs (Cuervo‐Cazurra, ; Ellis, ; Kalotay & Sulstarova, ; Lei & Chen, ; Makino et al, ).…”

“…On the other hand, Alcacer () finds heterogeneity in collocation patterns within the United States of capable versus less capable cellular handset firms, regardless of their internationalization motives. Recently, Lei and Chen () observe that Taiwanese firms with stronger capabilities locate in more developed regions, while others locate in less developed regions of China and Vietnam with respect to their market‐ and resource‐seeking motives. In the following section, we aim to expand the location literature to the case of Indian software firms by building upon Makino et al’s () model that simultaneously considers firm resources and internationalization motives as codeterminants of location choices.…”

“…First, despite the importance of our topic, it remains underresearched. Of the three most closely related studies, only one (Makino, Lau, & Yeh, ) directly examines efficiency‐seeking firms’ location choices across a set of countries, while the other two (Alcacer, ; Lei & Chen, ) report firms’ location choices within the context of a single country. Moreover, all three studies focus on newly industrialized‐ or developed‐country firms and report equivocal results.…”

Using FDM and DEMATEL Approaches to Evaluate the Location Selection of Investment

“…Specifically, the theory involves the theoretical study of human economic behavior of spaceand spatial locationof economic activityin the region, entailing the optimal portfolio choice withina certain geographical space [8]. The decision making of location selection contains the following factors, such as the impact of resources, population, transportation, education, the level of development of industry, consumption levels, government policiesand other factors affected the region, the impact of the economic activity and production processes [9].…”